Firewall Security Engineer (SC Cleared)

Firewall Security Engineer

6 Month Contract

Warwick (Hybrid)

£380/day (Outside IR35)

Firewall Security Engineer needed with active SC Security Clearance and in-depth experience of F5 firewalls. 6 Month Contract based in Warwick (Hybrid).

The vast majority of work is expected to be remote, plus occasional travel to Data Centre sites in the West/South of England, on average once/twice a month.

Working with a global IT Consultancy on large-scale network solutions projects for a Telecoms client.

Key skills, experience + tasks will include:

• Must have in-depth F5 firewalls experience, plus Checkpoint or Juniper firewall security skills.


• Technical Ownership of a Telecoms end client's Network Security Infrastructure estate, processes, documentation + lifecycle management.


• Acting as the technical point of contact for all Network Security related projects, changes and modifications, including firewall rules base.


• Point of escalation and link to vendor support for Network Security infrastructure incidents.


• Design of customer networks including input into High-Level and Low-Level design (HLD/LLD).


• Technical support, change management (physical/remote), customer inventory management, EOL, hardware, software.


• Technical Environment: F5, Checkpoint, Juniper, Bluecoat, Cisco Networking, Cisco IPT / QoS / 802.1x, switches, wireless, Inflobox DNS, SSL VPN, DMVPN, IPsec, WAN, routing protocols.


• SC Security Clearance is essential for this contract.