Network Security Engineer at World Wide Technology, United Kingdom, £Contract Rate

World Wide Technology (WWT) is a global technology integrator and supply chain solutions provider. Through our culture of innovation, we inspire, build, and deliver business results, from idea to outcome.

World Wide Technology (WWT) is looking for an experienced Network Security Engineer is expected to be well versed in numerous networking protocols, technologies and troubleshooting methodology, including the use of proactive and reactive tools.

The ideal candidate role involves alignment to the current and approved Network Services Standards, Incident and Problem Management Policies & Procedures, governance and management policies set forth by the firm.

This is a contract Role & Inside IR35

Network Security Engineer

Contract Duration: 12 months contract

Location: Remote, United Kingdom

Key Responsibilities:

• Primarily responsible for operational Support of the Security Services environment
• SkyHigh Web Gateway (Proxy), Trellix DLP (FireEye), F5 SSLO, FortiGate (Firewalls), and Trend Micro (IDS/IPS)
• As a secondary responsibility the roles will also work with other security related network components such as Load Balancing and DNS, DHCP, and IPAM (DDI) infrastructure.
• Proactive network reviews including
• Routine testing of disaster recovery scenarios, identification of vulnerabilities, and opportunities for improvement in observability across the network stack
• Work with senior team members to validate impacts and communicate to all stakeholder’s technical status updates
• Participate in the documentation of application flows, upstream/downstream impacts during outages, the customer experience in failure scenarios, contacts for various support needs and ensures appropriate runbooks and wikis are up to date and available for use during triage
• Work ad-hoc reports and offline incidents at the direction of the senior team members or leadership
• Promote and enforce production governance during triage/testing and fix efforts, exercises judgment within defined procedures and practices to determine appropriate action.
• Adhere to design standards and global design authority processes and procedures; Debate them when necessary
• Assemble professional documents based on existing templates and ability to provide accurate work descriptions with assumptions, and caveats.

Required Skills:

• Operational mindset: Prioritize, understand, and act with urgency to restore all incident related work, act as authoritative figure for respective domain, and represent the Ops org during all calls (planned or unplanned)
• Experience with Network technologies
• Proxy devices (SkyHigh), F5 Load balancing (SSLO), Firewalls (Fortigate and Checkpoint), LAN, TCP/IP and UDP, DNS, and authentication
• Experience with troubleshooting complex networking problems
• Experience with JIRA, Confluence, Agile framework & SCRUM ceremonies
• Understand configuration management with tools such as Forward Networks and HPNA
• Experience using (both proactive and reactive) advanced tooling; Inclusive of but not limited to NetScout, Wireshark, Splunk, SevOne, HPNA, and IBM Watson.
• General experience in Network Automation tools and processes
• Self-starter/self-directed, organized and detail oriented
• Strong technical acumen and analytical skills
• Excellent client interfacing skills
• Strong verbal and written communication skills and ability to work with all levels of management
• Experience aligning actions to business impact and service restoral
• Demonstrates ownership: Is accountable and can hold others accountable (professionally)
• Experience operating with colleagues across different time zones with a flexible approach to working hours (ability to work varied hours) to successfully interact and communicate on a global level

Candidates will be required to go through background checks before commencing contract.

Must be eligible to live and work in the specified work location. Some occasional travel may be required. Only successful candidates will be contacted

EQUAL OPPORTUNITIES

World Wide Technology is committed to equal opportunities and actively seeks applications from all sectors of the community irrespective of sex, race, color, nationality, ethnic or national origin, disability, marital status, sexual orientation, having responsibility for dependents, age, religion/beliefs, or any other reason which cannot be shown to be justified.