Network Security Engineer
Full Time
Permanent
Hybrid (SE UK Home based with travel to client sites UK wide)
£65-72.5K basic plus 10% bonus + benefits
Are you an experienced Network Security Engineer looking for a new challenge?
Do you have a background in Routing, Switching, Firewalls and Load Balancing along with Datacentre fabric design?
Here at ARM we are recruiting for a fulltime permanent Network Security Engineer for a global IT services and consultancy client of ours.
Network Security Engineers work as part of a delivery team and be directed by senior delivery resources or will technically lead small/medium engagements.
You will be a technical expert within your area and able to provide technical consultancy to both technical and non-technical audiences. They will possess skills to enable excellent technical design and implementation of infrastructure solutions and demonstrate excellent problem-solving and organisational skills.
The Network team is looking to add a seasoned Network Security Engineer to our networking team. Your goal is to be one of the contributors to the global network team and assist with the transformation to cloud services and a software-defined network. This is a tremendous opportunity to join a global organization and participate in the development of the next generation network architecture. Ideal candidates will have well-rounded knowledge of network design and implementation, campus design, datacentre fabrics and network automation.
Ability to work as part of a team, as well as applying own initiative to task execution and problem solving. Ability to lead small/medium engagements.
Understand the importance of meeting project and customer timelines/deadlines.
Strong verbal and written communication skills.
Can constantly demonstrate broad knowledge and experience of technical solutions, as well as technical experience in their chosen technical domain.
Responsibilities-
- Responsible for understanding the business objectives and translating the business requirements into IT solutions
- Evaluate new network technologies to better improve efficiencies, security posture and meet business objectives
- Has thorough knowledge of infrastructure technology interdependencies
- Responsible for providing technical leadership across the IT organization in support of the network initiatives
- Work with colleagues in other technology and business groups to understand technology and business requirements
- Develop solutions to complex technical, procedural, and logistical problems
- Requires subject matter expertise in networking with demonstrated success designing and deploying large scale WAN and datacentre networks.
- Demonstrates an ability to write succinct assessments of technology features/functionality for a broad IT audience that spans support staff to management and presents the business value or use case strengths/limits of the technology.
- Leads evaluation, assessment and direct questioning of vendors and industry analysts in pursuit of understanding product viability to customer requirements, future needs, and ecosystem appropriateness.
- Provide training and new technology overview to engineering colleagues
- Develop, document and update standards documentation
- Final technical escalation point of contact for network technologies
Strong technical expertise preferred in the following areas:
- Routing and Switching (Cisco, Arista)
- Packet decoding and analysis
- SDWAN (Versa preferred)
- Datacentre fabric design
- Firewalls - (Palo Alto and Illumio preferred)
- Web Proxy solutions
- Load Balancing (F5 LTM, GTM, ASM)
- Remote Access Solutions
- 10yrs experience in the network field
- High-level certification in a major technology area preferred (CCIE, CISSP etc)
- Demonstrated ability to work under intense pressure when resolving complex issues with strict deadlines
- Strong written, communication and presentation skills
- Ability to communicate and collaborate effectively with the team members and superiors
- Global mindset and visionary
Some of the benefits include:
- Healthcare and dental insurance
- Company pension is matched up to 5%
- 25 days annual leave entitlement plus bank holidays and the option to purchase 5 extra days
- Life assurance - 4 x annual salary
- Cycle to work scheme
- Client prioritises internal development opportunities and offer access to our Udemy training platform with over 5000 training courses
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Disclaimer:
This vacancy is being advertised by either Advanced Resource Managers Limited, Advanced Resource Managers IT Limited or Advanced Resource Managers Engineering Limited ("ARM"). ARM is a specialist talent acquisition and management consultancy. We provide technical contingency recruitment and a portfolio of more complex resource solutions. Our specialist recruitment divisions cover the entire technical arena, including some of the most economically and strategically important industries in the UK and the world today. We will never send your CV without your permission.