Network Security Engineer

Location: Basingstoke

Salary: £56 - £60k plus 3% SIS bonus and 10% DV allowance once through

Candidates must be willing to go through SC and DV security clearance for this role.

Your role will involve:

I am looking for an ideally Cisco-qualified network specialist with multi-year knowledge of supporting deployed systems and their network environment.

Your role will involve configuring, installing, supporting and trouble-shooting Cisco Switches & Routers, Cisco ASA devices, Fortinet Fortigate Firewalls and Juniper based Firewalls/boundary protection devices. A great opportunity to be trained don Juniper SRX if you have limited or no exposure to this already.

Your transferable skills and experience:

• Configuring network devices.
• Previous experience with Fortinet FortiGate.
• Previous experience Cisco routing and switching devices.
• Juniper SRX experience is preferred but not essential
• Demonstrable understanding of OSPF, EIGRP and BGP routing protocols.
• Demonstrable understanding of NAT, GRE Tunnelling protocol, DMVPN Tunnelling Protocol, Subnetting & Supernetting.
• Previous 3rd line troubleshooting and support experience.
• Network implementation in an offline environment.

Please note: It's still worth applying even if you do not meet all the requirements above. We are passionate about investing in you and your career and if you have the transferable skills/background in networking, this could be the next opportunity for you.

Your benefits:

• 25 Days annual leave plus public holidays
• Pension - Double matching contributions of up to 10%
• Life assurance
• Companywide incentive plans
• Your choices (Flexible benefits such as increased holidays/travel/dental critical illness and more)
• Perks at work - employee discounts
• Employee assistance programme/virtual GP