SC Cleared Network Engineer

JR United Kingdom; Slough; Remote; GBP 80,000 - 100,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading technology consultancy seeks an SC Cleared Network Engineer for a 6-month contract. You will provide crucial support for Security Gateway management and engineering tasks, focusing on DevOps practices and network security. This remote position includes occasional travel to London and offers a competitive daily rate.

Qualifications

• Experience with SC Clearance is mandatory.
• Proven skills in DevOps and network engineering required.
• Familiarity with AWS Terraform, FortiGate, and NGINX is essential.

Responsibilities

• Maintain and support Security Gateway components in various environments.
• Respond to protective monitoring alerts and support troubleshooting tasks.
• Ensure timely updates and maintenance via Terraform and AWS services.

Skills

Network Engineering

DevOps

AWS

Terraform

FortiGate

NGINX

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SC Cleared Network Engineer - 6 months+ - £500-600pd Inside IR35 - Remote with occasional travel to London

Looking for an SC Cleared Network Engineer to provide engineering support. It is expected that the engineer will have both DevOps and network engineering skills.

Security Gateway FortiGate Management

• Maintain and support this component in the Connectivity account for both Non-Prod & Production environments
• Ensure this component gets rebuilt every 4 weeks by Jenkins
• Amend Configuration/Code via terraform as required on an adhoc basis:-
• Anti-virus
• IPS
• WAF
• File-Filter
• AWS Terraform provider Updates
• FortiFlex API changes
• Associated infrastructure; Route 53,S3,Load balancer, Lambda etc
• Certificate Deployment
• Vault secrets

Security Gateway NGINX Management

• Maintain and support this component in the Connectivity account for both Non-Prod & Production environments
• Ensure this component gets rebuilt every 4 weeks by Jenkins/packer and uses latest Amazon Linux 2023 AMI
• Amend Configuration via terraform as required on an adhoc basis in relation to below:-
• Instance type/size
• Additional TO
• Amendment to TO configuration
• Deployment of new TO client cert (yearly)
• AWS Terraform provider Updates
• Associated infrastructure ;route 53,load balancer, etc
• Certificate Deployment
• Vault secrets

Security Gateway Support

• Respond to Protective Monitoring Alerts
• Support A&T team when experience issues connecting to TOs will involve
• NGINX troubleshooting including but not limited to
• Reviewing Kibana Logs
• SSH to NGINX Server
• FortiGate troubleshooting including but not limited to
• Reviewing Protective Monitoring
• Running packet captures
• Raise FortiGate FortiFlex license renewal request with clients Licensing as required (expected to be once every 4-5 years)
• Review FortiFlex usage reports & emails
• Respond to CloudWatch alarms examples below (not exhaustive list)
• CPU

Security Gateway Support Onboarding / Provisioning

• Add users to Security Enforcing Services AD Groups
• Add users to Security Enforcing Services AWS Console Groups

SC Cleared Network Engineer - 6 months+ - £500-600pd Inside IR35 - Remote with occasional travel to London