Senior Network Specialist with Security and Cisco - City London

Posted 2 days 3 hours ago by Jas Gujral

Permanent
Not Specified
Other
London, United Kingdom
Job Description

Senior Network Specialist with Security and Cisco - City London

Our Client urgently requires a Senior Network Specialist with a heavy background in Network Security on Cisco and Microsoft.

The security and support of the company's network is paramount.

This is predominantly a support role (BAU) with the design of scalable solutions deliverable through projects, encompassing numerous technologies that benefit high-availability solutions.

This role requires a responsible individual who can design and deliver secure networking solutions, and a fast thinker who can diagnose, assist others, and remediate BAU support issues.

Main Aspects of the role:
  1. Work within the Infrastructure team in supporting and delivering all aspects of BAU and support services.
  2. Design, build and implement firewall solutions from perimeter to DMZ roles.
  3. Support IPS deployment for European branches.
  4. Develop, maintain and deliver global standards to all networking devices.
  5. Remediate Penetration Test results.
  6. Ensure seamless migration of network estate to newly adopted security framework.
General Skills:
  1. Experience working within mission-critical environments.
  2. Experience in operational deployments.
  3. Datacentre cabling and racking of equipment.
Technical Skills you need to bring to the table:
  1. In-depth knowledge of CISCO including firewalls, switches, and routing protocols.
  2. In-depth knowledge of supporting a datacentre and branch interconnectivity.
  3. Strong technical skills are essential.
  4. Experience of CISCO multilayer switches and routers, including 6500s.
  5. CISCO certification, ideally CCNP.
  6. CISCO CSM.
  7. VLAN segregation.
  8. McAfee HIPS, Trend Micro.
  9. Centralised authentication service (AAA).
  10. SafeNet Ethernet Encryptor.
  11. RADIUS / RSA.
  12. Security certification (advantageous).
You will also need to have an understanding of the following technologies:
  1. VLAN segregation.
  2. DMZ.
  3. VSS.
  4. Failover.
  5. OSPF.
  6. High availability.
  7. CISCO.
  8. Palo Alto.
  9. Juniper.
  10. McAfee IPS.
  11. SafeNet.
  12. Tripwire.

This is a contract role for up to 18 months to start immediately.

Please send your CV to us in Word format.