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Network Security Engineer

Saunders Scott
Sheffield
6 days ago
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Security Engineer – Support Services

Fixed term role for 12 months rolling, up to 3 years.


Role Description & Responsibilities

  • Working as part of the security implementation / delivery team
  • Working Practices are aligned to SAFE
  • Participating in Agile Ceremonies – Daily Stand Ups, delivering work over 2 weekly sprints
  • Ensuring workloads are reflected within our project management toolset.
  • Primarily working on the clients Security Infrastructure / Firewall Estate
  • Triage of Customer Requirements into actionable engineering deliverables
  • Supporting work out of typical business hours from time to time
  • Supporting more junior engineers with troubleshooting and escalations
  • Producing documentation for the team’s knowledge base
  • Holding knowledge transfer sessions where required


Technical Skills

As a Security Engineer, you will need as much demonstrable knowledge and experience in as many of the following areas as possible.

  • Enterprise grade next generation firewalls – Primarily PAN and Forti Net
  • Experience with using related management platforms – SCM, Panorama, Forti Managers
  • Secure Access Service Edge Platforms
  • Expert Troubleshooting and Analytical Approach to problems
  • Good working knowledge of Security Architecture concepts & experience with Security Design
  • Networking Knowledge - Routing and Switching
  • AWS & Azure Infrastructure knowledge
  • CSPM
  • Vulnerability Management & Email Hygiene Solutions – Such as Tenable, Mimecast
  • Enterprise network monitoring tools
  • Administrating network security access policies on firewalls
  • Configuring new security profiles and protections
  • Produce and review Documentation such as Network Diagrams, solution descriptions,

Soft Skills

  • Stakeholder management, and good customer facing skills.
  • Ability to work autonomously with minimum supervision and to integrate well within a team.
  • Agile development and operations using SAFe, scrum or a similar method.
  • Proven ability to collaborate and communicate with both IT and business-facing colleagues.
  • Experience of working with Security Ops, compliance, risk, and governance practices
  • Previous experience working for an MSSP would be considered a plus.
  • Experience working in a heavily regulated environment, particularly nuclear would-be a plus.

Security Check (SC) clearance eligibility is a requirement for this role.

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