At a Glance
- Tasks: Maintain and develop a secure defence network, ensuring high availability and performance.
- Company: Join a specialist team in the defence sector with a focus on security.
- Benefits: Competitive daily rate, opportunity to work on high-assurance projects.
- Other info: Ideal for those seeking to advance their career in a dynamic, secure setting.
- Why this job: Make a real impact in a technically challenging role within a secure environment.
- Qualifications: Extensive Network Engineering experience and strong firewalling skills required.
The predicted salary is between 51750 - 63250 £ per year.
- Network Engineer
- +6 months +
- +Inside IR35
- +SC / DV cleared role
- +Sole British national only - due to nature of the project
Skills
- +Palo Alto
- +Cryptographic technologies
- +SC / DV clearance
- We are seeking an experienced
Network Engineer to join a specialist team supporting the operation, maintenance and continued development of a highly secure defence network environment.
This is a technically challenging role requiring strong networking and firewall expertise, with responsibility for maintaining network availability, delivering architectural changes and supporting secure, mission-critical services.
Key Responsibilities
- Operate and maintain a complex secure network environment, including gateways and cross-connects to international networks.
- Monitor network performance, identify outages proactively and ensure SLAs are maintained.
- Design and implement network and architectural changes in line with project and service requirements.
- Provide technical consultation to delivery teams and senior stakeholders.
- Work with defence stakeholders and international partners to design, coordinate and deliver network initiatives.
- Manage network perimeter security, internet-facing security policies and deployed network assets.
- Support software-defined networking and inter-enclave firewalling.
- Contribute to the design and delivery of service provider and data centre network solutions.
- Develop and maintain comprehensive technical documentation using tools such as Confluence.
- Support the configuration and management of secure networking and cryptographic technologies.
Essential Skills & Experience
- Extensive professional
Network Engineering experience.
CCNP or equivalent networking experience.
- Palo Alto Experience
- Strong firewalling experience , ideally
PCNSE or equivalent .
- Strong experience across multi-vendor networking technologies .
- Proven experience in network design and project delivery .
- Experience with service provider and data centre networking .
- Experience working with high-grade encryption / cryptographic technologies .
- Experience operating within secure defence or government environments .
- Ability to present complex technical information to both technical and non-technical audiences.
- Strong stakeholder management and communication skills.
This is an excellent opportunity for an experienced Network Engineer to work on a technically complex, high-assurance network environment within the defence sector.
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