Network Security Engineer (SOC)

Electus Recruitment Solutions; Stevenage; On-site; GBP 50,000 - 58,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading recruitment agency seeks a skilled Network Security Engineer in Stevenage to join their Internal Security Response team. In this permanent role, you will design and implement robust security solutions, ensuring the integrity of network infrastructure while managing incidents and vulnerabilities. Candidates should have solid networking knowledge and experience with firewalls like Cisco and Palo Alto. Offering a salary of £50k plus £2k bonus and shift allowance, this position requires DV Clearance eligibility.

Benefits

£2k bonus

Shift allowance

Qualifications

• Solid understanding of networking principles such as TCP/IP and DNS.
• Experience in configuring and troubleshooting firewalls.
• Hands-on experience with next-gen firewalls' security features.

Responsibilities

• Safeguard clients' network infrastructure as part of the ISR team.
• Design, implement, and maintain security solutions.
• Identify vulnerabilities and manage security incidents.

Skills

Network security principles

Firewall configuration and troubleshooting

Next-gen firewalls experience

Secure proxy solutions management

Security protocol knowledge

Monitoring technologies proficiency

Tools

Cisco

Check Point

Palo Alto

Splunk

Darktrace

F5

Job description

Network Security Engineer (SOC)

Job Description

Please note this role will require candidates to gain DV Clearance.

An exciting opportunity for a passionate Network Security Engineer to join a unique, multi-national Information Management function. Ideal candidates should be committed to protecting critical systems and ensuring the integrity and security of the network infrastructure.

The opportunity

Join a forward thinking team as a Network Security Engineer, where you will play a key role in safeguarding our clients' organisations' network infrastructure as part of the 24x7 Internal Security Response (ISR) team. When not involved in incident response and triage activity with the SOC team, you will be responsible for designing, implementing and maintaining robust security solutions to protect against evolving threats. Collaborating with cross-functional teams, you will work on implementing changes securely, identifying vulnerabilities, managing security incidents and ensuring compliance with industry best practices. The role will be involved in the optimisation of network security tools to remediate “purple team” highlighted areas identified for improvement. You will also have the opportunity to immerse your time into the standardisation of network tools. This is a dynamic opportunity to contribute to security initiatives, solve complex challenges, and have a direct impact on the overall resilience of the IT environment.

What we're looking for from you

ESSENTIALS

• Solid understanding of networking principles (TCP/IP, DNS, routing, switching, VLANS and load balancing)
• Strong expertise in configuring, maintaining and troubleshooting firewalls e.g. Cisco, Checkpoint, Palo Alto.
• Demonstrable hands‑on experience in next‑gen firewalls and advancing security features like IPS/IDS, SSL decryption and deep packet inspection.
• Proven experience in managing secure proxy solutions (e.g. Bluecoat, F5) and the ability to implement policies for content filtering, SSL inspection and network traffic monitoring.
• In depth knowledge of security protocols such as IPSec, SSL / TLS, VPNs and two factor authentication.
• Understanding of network architectures and security zones (DMZ, internal networks).
• Proficient in monitoring technologies e.g. PRTG, Nagios.

DESIRABLES

• Understanding of cyber security capabilities and their integrations to networks infrastructure.
• Existing knowledge of / aptitude to learn Darktrace Antigena and Respond, Splunk ES or Log Rhythm tools.
• Strong ability to interpret complex information via use of packet capture in order to identify malicious traffic in detail, revealing attacker behaviours like C2, exploitation, lateral movement, or data exfiltration.
• Proven ability to review SOC alerting in collaboration with SOC analysts to effectively triage and manage Tier 1 SOC alerts to the appropriate outcome.
• Experience with LDAP, and application traffic flow root cause analysis.
• Previous experience to identify root cause from (TBC for review - Demonstrable understanding of the OSI Reference Model and the network communication protocols, including but not limited to DNS, HTTP/S, SSL, SMTP, FTP/S, LDAP/S. Demonstrable experience with Security Information Event Monitoring Tools and/or Network Packet Capture tools).

Overview

Position - Network Security Engineer (SOC) - Permanent

Location - Stevenage (Onsite Shift work)

Salary - £50k (Plus £2k bonus and shift allowance)

Keywords

Network Security Engineer, SOC, Security Operations Centre, Firewalls, Incident Response, Security Incidents, Networking Principles, Virtual Private Networks, Security Protocols, Vulnerabilities, Threats.

Eligibility & Clearance

Only apply for this role if you currently hold the specific Government Security Clearance or are eligible for Government Security Clearance.

Due to the nature of work undertaken at our client's site, incumbents of these positions are required to meet special nationality rules and therefore these vacancies are only open to sole British Citizens. Applicants who meet this criteria will also be required to undergo security clearance vetting, if not already security cleared to a minimum SC level.

Additional Information

This is a Permanent Role