Senior Network Security Architect (Hybrid)

Sky UK; Greater London; Hybrid; GBP 70,000 - 120,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Private healthcare

Pension contributions

Life Insurance

Wellbeing support

Job summary

Sky UK is seeking a Senior Network Security Engineer to design, implement and protect Sky’s enterprise network. You will monitor threats, investigate incidents, and drive improvements across security controls.

The role requires hands-on work with firewalls, WAFs, VPNs, and cloud/network security technologies in a large-scale environment. You will also contribute to policy development, incident response, and ongoing security transformation initiatives, while staying current with industry trends

Qualifications

• Extensive experience designing, implementing, securing, and supporting enterprise-scale network security solutions.
• Experience with firewalls, WAFs, load balancers, VPNs, NAC, routers and switches in complex environments.
• Strong networking and infrastructure security expertise including TCP/IP, DNS, DHCP, VLANs, NAT, and OS hardening.

Responsibilities

• Develops comprehensive cyber security plans that address current threats while anticipating future ones.
• Monitors network activity for suspicious behaviour or unauthorised access attempts.
• Investigates potential breaches of system integrity or anomalies detected by monitoring systems.
• Responds to incidents by isolating affected systems or restoring backups when necessary.
• Analyses existing information security processes to identify improvements or mitigations.
• Implements new technologies to improve protection levels against attacks.
• Produces detailed reports on cyber security activities and recommendations.

Skills

Enterprise network security

Firewalling

WAFs

VPNs

Zero Trust

Tools

Palo Alto

Check Point

Fortinet

Cisco

Akamai WAF

Job description

Sky UK is seeking a Senior Network Security Engineer to design, implement and protect Sky’s enterprise network. You will monitor threats, investigate incidents, and drive improvements across security controls.

The role requires hands-on work with firewalls, WAFs, VPNs, and cloud/network security technologies in a large-scale environment. You will also contribute to policy development, incident response, and ongoing security transformation initiatives, while staying current with industry trends