Network Engineer with Cisco and Banking – City London

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

Job summary

A leading company is urgently seeking a Senior Network Engineer located in London. The role focuses on the security and support of the company’s network, which is paramount, working predominantly in support tasks while also designing scalable networking solutions. Successful candidates will have a deep understanding of CISCO technologies and experience in a banking environment.

Qualifications

• Experience working within mission-critical environments.
• Experience in operational deployments.
• Strong technical skills essential.

Responsibilities

• Support and deliver all aspects of BAU and support services.
• Design, build, and implement firewall solutions.
• Remediate Penetration Test results.

Skills

Networking

Network Security

Firewalls

Routing Protocols

Troubleshooting

High Availability

VLAN Segregation

Education

CISCO Certification (ideally CCNP)

Security Certification (advantageous)

Tools

CISCO

McAfee HIPS

Trend Micro

SafeNet

Palo Alto

Juniper

Job description

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.

Main Aspects of the role:

-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.