Network Security Engineer

LA International; Warwick; Hybrid; GBP 100,000 - 125,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading ICT recruitment consultancy is seeking a Network Security Engineer for an immediate start on a 6-month contract. This position allows for mainly remote work, with occasional travel to Warwick. The role involves technical oversight of security infrastructure and experience with security technologies. Candidates with active or past SC Clearance are preferred. Competitive pay rate of £370-£380 per day outside IR35 is offered.

Qualifications

• Experience with network security infrastructure and lifecycle management.
• Knowledge of Cisco IPT/QoS and Wireless Technologies.
• Holding or previously held Security Clearance is preferred.

Responsibilities

• Manage the customer's security infrastructure and lifecycle.
• Serve as senior technical reference for all security projects.
• Design customer networks and manage hardware/software inventory.

Skills

Check Point

Juniper

Bluecoat

F5

Cisco networking solutions

VPN Technologies (ipsec, SSL VPN, DMVPN)

Wide Area Network technologies

Job description

Our client is looking for a Network Security Engineer to start immediately on a 6 month contract. This would be mainly remote with the potential of occasional travel to Warwick, Southern & Western Datacenters. The position is Outside IR35 with a rate of £370-£380 per day and candidates already holding SC Clearance is preferred.

Responsibilities

• Technical Ownership of the Customers Security infrastructure estate, processes procedures, documentation and life cycle management contracted to Vodafone
• Senior Technical point of reference for all Security related projects, Changes or modifications to firewall rule bases
• Senior technical point of reference/escalation and interface into vendor support for all Incidence related to the security infrastructure.
• Design of customer networks including the support of High Level and Low Level designs. Providing technical support, Change management, for hard (physical) and soft (remote) changes. Customer inventory management, Hardware software, EOL.

Nice to have / Qualifications

• Detailed experience of supporting Checkpoint, Juniper, Bluecoat, F5 and knowledge of Cisco networking solutions including all the major switching families and understanding of Wireless Technologies and Cisco IPT /QoS /802.1x/ Inflobox DNS
• VPN Technologies ipsec, SSL VPN, DMVPN
• Wide Area network technologies including routing protocols

Due to the nature and urgency of this post, candidates holding or who have held high level security clearance in the past are most welcome to apply. Please note successful applicants will be required to be security cleared prior to appointment which can take up to a minimum 10 weeks.

LA International is a HMG approved ICT Recruitment and Project Solutions Consultancy, operating globally from the largest single site in the UK as an IT Consultancy or as an Employment Business & Agency depending upon the precise nature of the work, for security cleared jobs or non-clearance vacancies, LA International welcome applications from all sections of the community and from people with diverse experience and backgrounds.

Award Winning LA International, winner of the Recruiter Awards for Excellence, Best IT Recruitment Company, Best Public Sector Recruitment Company and overall Gold Award winner, has now secured the most prestigious business award that any business can receive, The Queens Award for Enterprise: International Trade, for the second consecutive period.