Hybrid Network & Security Engineer — Protect & Optimize

Leisure (Operations); Northwich; On-site; GBP 42,000 - 64,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Pension with matched contributions up

Bonus scheme up to 2%

35 days holiday (with bank holidays)

Healthcare cashback plan

Wellbeing support

Gym membership

Life Assurance

Job summary

Places for People is seeking a Network & Security Engineer to protect and develop our network and security infrastructure across on-premise and cloud environments. The role combines hands-on network engineering with cyber security and requires collaboration with colleagues, partners and suppliers.

This role is based on site in Northwich three days a week, with a basic DBS check standard as part of the process and a People First approach to working with teams and external partners.

Qualifications

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

Responsibilities

• 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 security operations centres and threat detection systems.
• Investigating network behaviour, security threats and vulnerabilities with remediation support.
• Creating, testing and improving runbooks and response scenarios, introducing automation where possible.
• Providing technical expertise to colleagues and engineers across incidents, problems and projects.

Skills

Networking

Wireless APs

Switches & Routers

Troubleshooting

Stakeholder Management

Education

Degree in IT/CS

Tools

Firewalls

VPNs

IDS/IPS

Cloud platforms

Job description

Places for People is seeking a Network & Security Engineer to protect and develop our network and security infrastructure across on-premise and cloud environments. The role combines hands-on network engineering with cyber security and requires collaboration with colleagues, partners and suppliers.

This role is based on site in Northwich three days a week, with a basic DBS check standard as part of the process and a People First approach to working with teams and external partners.