Hybrid Network & Security Engineer | Cloud + On‑Prem

Places for People; England; On-site; GBP 50,000 - 70,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Pension with matched contributions up 

Bonus scheme up to 2%

35 days holiday including bank hols

Health cash plan and private GP

Wellbeing support and EAP

Job summary

Places for People is seeking an experienced Network & Security Engineer to protect and evolve our network infrastructure across on‑premise and cloud environments. You will work with LAN/WAN/WLAN, firewalls, VPNs and security platforms to maintain robust protection and performance.

You’ll collaborate with colleagues and external partners, tackling threats, improving runbooks, and driving automation and best practices to support audits and new tenders.

Qualifications

• Hands-on experience with networking tech including wireless APs, switches and routers.
• Strong troubleshooting skills and ability to resolve or escalate issues.
• Experience in large or complex organisations and managing multiple stakeholders.

Responsibilities

• Engineering, monitoring and improving security controls protecting networks on‑premise and in the cloud.
• Maintaining and developing LAN, WAN, WLAN, firewalls, VPNs, web and email security platforms.
• Monitoring alerts from security operations and threat detection systems.
• Investigating network behaviour and vulnerabilities and supporting remediation.

Skills

Networking

Security

Troubleshooting

Stakeholder mgmt

Cloud basics

Education

Network engineering degree

Cyber security qualification

Tools

Azure

AWS

GCP

Job description

Places for People is seeking an experienced Network & Security Engineer to protect and evolve our network infrastructure across on‑premise and cloud environments. You will work with LAN/WAN/WLAN, firewalls, VPNs and security platforms to maintain robust protection and performance.

You’ll collaborate with colleagues and external partners, tackling threats, improving runbooks, and driving automation and best practices to support audits and new tenders.