Firewall Engineer

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My client a Leading Financial Services Group with millions of UK Customers with a presence in nearly every community is seeking a Firewall Engineer based in their London office.

The successful candidate will be a joining a talented team dedicated to providing the necessary firewall protection to the organisations networks. As part of this team, you will be a key person for any Firewall support and project requirements, including implementation, design activities and embedding best in class solutions.
You will share the responsibility of successfully protecting the 1 in 3 people who use our systems in the UK as well as our 10 million active online banking users. You can expect much of your time to be split between support and project work as we continually improve our offering to become the Best bank for Customers. In addition to your support responsibilities, you will demonstrate an ability and willingness to engage with programmes and initiatives throughout the project lifecycle, delivering their requirements. You will also being comfortable supporting major incidents when necessary, including having appropriate stakeholder management skills.

There will be a 24/7 shift pattern in place across the team which is designed to provide the most robust level of defence to the services our customers rely on us to provide. Working alongside a more senior team member you will use your technical skills and problem solving ability to quickly resolve issues as they arise at any time.

Technically, you will be CCSE/CCSA or qualified through experience with Checkpoint Firewalls. Ideally you would also have a range of wider Cisco Networks skills and knowledge. You will demonstrate an ability to deliver into a multi-vendor, enterprise-level environment, working from being hands on with the devices to planning larger changes and implementations. Whilst you don’t need to have worked in the Finance Sector – knowledge of regulated environments would be favourable.
In return, we’ll recognise and reward your performance. As well as an award-winning benefits package, you’ll also have our full support, training and opportunities for personal and professional development. The team will work a rotating 12hr shift pattern and in recognition of this a shift allowance will be paid.

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