Network Engineer with Cisco and Banking – City London

Jas Gujral; City Of London; On-site; GBP 50,000 - 60,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading tech consultancy in London is looking for a Senior Network Engineer with expertise in Network Security and Cisco technologies. The ideal candidate will have experience in banking environments and will be responsible for designing and delivering secure networking solutions. The position offers a salary of £50K to £60K plus banking benefits.

Qualifications

• In-depth knowledge of firewalls, switches, and routing protocols.
• Experience in mission-critical environments, especially within investment banking.
• Strong technical skills with data-centre and branch inter-connectivity.

Responsibilities

• Support and deliver all aspects of BAU and support services.
• Design, build and implement firewall solutions.
• Ensure seamless migration of network estate to newly adopted security framework.

Skills

Network Security

Cisco Knowledge

Technical Support

Diagnosing Issues

Operational Deployments

Education

CISCO CCNP Certification

Security Certification (advantageous)

Tools

Cisco Switches and Routers

McAfee HIPS

Trend Micro

Job description

Overview

Network Engineer with Security and Cisco – City London

Our Client urgently requires a Senior Network Engineer with heavy background in Network Security on Cisco and Microsoft.

You must have experience of working in a banking environment.

The security and support of the company’s network is paramount.

Predominately a support role (BAU) with design of scalable solutions deliverable through projects.

Encompassing numerous technologies that benefit high-availability solutions.

This role requires a responsible individual who can design and deliver secure networking solutions.

Fast thinker who can diagnose, assist others and remediate BAU support issues.

Responsibilities

• Work within Infrastructure team in supporting and delivering all aspect of BAU and support services
• Design, build and implement firewall solutions from perimeter to DMZ roles
• Support IPS deployment for Europeanbranches
• Develop, maintain and deliver global standards to all networking devices
• Remediate Penetration Test results
• Ensure seamless migration of network estate to newly adopted security framework

General Skills

• Experience working within mission-critical environments
• Experience in operational deployments
• Datacentre cabling and racking of equipment

Technical Skills you need to bring to the table

• In-depth knowledge of CISCO including firewalls, switches and routing protocols
• In-depth knowledge of supporting a data-centre and branch inter-connectivity
• Strong technical skills are essential
• Experience of CISCO multi-layer switches and routers, including 6500s
• CISCO certification, ideally CCNP
• CISCO CSM
• VLAN segregation
• McAfee HIPS, Trend Micro
• Centralised authentication service (AAA)
• SafeNet Ethernet Encryptor
• RADIUS / RSA
• Security certification (advantageous)

You will also need to an understanding of the following technologies

• VLAN segregation. DMZ. VSS. Failover. OSPF. High availability.
• CISCO. Palo Alto. Juniper. McAfee IPS. SafeNet. Tripwire.

You will ideally be coming with experience from a City based investment bank.

Salary for this role is between £50K and £60K plus banking benefits.

Please send your CV to us in Word format along with salary and availability.