Senior Network & Security Engineer

Morgan Hunt Recruitment

Morgan Hunt are currently recruiting for a Senior Network and Security Engineer to lead the design, implementation, maintenance and support of the networking technology fabric that underpins the IT infrastructure (including on-premises and cloud environments), its unified communications, and cybersecurity.

What you get in return:

• Salary : £66k – £73k
• Job Offer 2 Year FTC – Opportunity to join permanently.
• London – Hybrid Working, at least 40% of your time in their office/ 2 days per week
• Access to an excellent civil service pension scheme
• 33 days’ annual leave (increasing to 38 days over a 5-year period)
• Supportive parental and special leave policies
• Flexible working patterns, including working from home
• A focus on work-life balance: they want their staff to deliver their best work, and make sure you can balance that with your personal life
• Interest-free season ticket and cycle to work scheme
• Employee health and well-being initiatives; including flu jabs, free eye tests and mental health support
• Learning opportunities, including internal and external training, management and leadership development, and sponsorship for professional qualifications
• Paid-for professional memberships

Duties Include:

• Lead the networks workstream on projects and programmes to ensure that the network topology complies with the agreed standards and provide sufficient capacity, availability, and quality of service.
• Collaborate with infrastructure engineers to ensure systems are practically designed. Plan, direct and coordinate activities, engaging with other stakeholders to manage and implement a programme.
• Provide guidance and make recommendations to colleagues ensuring that service design and transition plans can be supported by network topologies and network provisions. Research new technologies and make recommendations when changes are needed to IT strategy and architecture.
• Develop a clear view of the cyber risk exposure, to provide meaningful risk advice and mitigations. Provide clear, consistent reporting to senior stakeholders, driving automation across processes and reporting where possible and ensuring the security of the network infrastructure including managing firewalls, using vulnerability scanning, port monitoring tools and resolving security related incidents.

Experience and Skills:

• Experience of designing and implementing infrastructure technologies, solutions and services such as: networking, physical infrastructure, software, COTS and open source packages and solutions, and cloud computing
• Knowledge of moderate to complex service integration, particularly experience of integration with Azure & AWS related networking and typical DMZ architectures and Express Route, with experience of capacity and availability monitoring and analysis using tools such as Solar Winds.
• Experience of designing secure systems characterised by medium levels of risk, impact, and business or technical complexity. Ability to select appropriate design standards, methods and tools and ensure they are applied effectively.

Technical Experience Preferred:

• Checkpoint
• Firewall
• Cisco ISE
• Cisco DNA Software

Security Clearance

• Candidates must be either security cleared or can be secured cleared (lived in the UK for over 5 years)

Qualifications

• CCNP (or equivalent) qualified or working towards or willing to work towards these qualifications.

Morgan Hunt is a multi-award-winning recruitment business for interim, contract and temporary recruitment and acts as an Employment Agency in relation to permanent vacancies. Morgan Hunt is an equal opportunities employer. Job suitability is assessed on merit in accordance with the individual’s skills, qualifications and abilities to perform the relevant duties required in a particular role.