Hybrid Network & Security Engineer — Northwich

Places for People; Northwich; On-site; GBP 45,000 - 60,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Pension contributions

Bonus scheme

35 days holiday

Healthcare cashback

Wellbeing support

Employee discounts

Training and progression

Job summary

Places for People is seeking an experienced Network & Security Engineer to join our Commercial IT team in Northwich. This hands‑on role focuses on securing and improving network performance across on‑premise and cloud environments, with on‑site work three days a week and a mandatory basic DBS check.

You will protect and develop our network infrastructure, manage security controls, and collaborate with internal teams and suppliers to deliver secure, reliable services.

Qualifications

• Hands-on experience with networking tech including wireless access points, switches and routers.
• Strong troubleshooting skills and experience resolving or escalating technical issues.
• Experience in large or complex organisations.
• Experience managing relationships with multiple internal and external stakeholders, including third‑party suppliers, vendors and contractors.
• Basic DBS check is mandatory.

Responsibilities

• Protect and develop our network infrastructure across on‑premise and cloud environments.
• Engineering, monitoring and improving security controls protecting our networks, both on‑premise and in the cloud.
• Maintaining and developing LAN, WAN, WLAN, firewalls, VPNs, web security and email security platforms.
• Monitoring alerts from our Managed Security Operations Centre and other threat detection systems.
• Investigating network behaviour, security threats and vulnerabilities, supporting remediation activity.
• Creating, testing and improving runbooks and response scenarios, introducing automation where possible.
• Providing technical expertise to colleagues and engineers across incidents, problems, projects and the introduction of new technologies and services.
• Keeping up to date with emerging cyber security threats, technologies and approaches.
• Supporting cyber assurance requirements for audits and new business tenders.
• Working with colleagues and third‑party partners to continuously improve the performance and security of our services.

Skills

Wireless access points

Switches

Routers

Troubleshooting

Stakeholder management

Education

Network/IT degree or equivalent

Job description

Places for People is seeking an experienced Network & Security Engineer to join our Commercial IT team in Northwich. This hands‑on role focuses on securing and improving network performance across on‑premise and cloud environments, with on‑site work three days a week and a mandatory basic DBS check.

You will protect and develop our network infrastructure, manage security controls, and collaborate with internal teams and suppliers to deliver secure, reliable services.