Senior Network Security Specialist
Posted Today by McGregor Boyall
£90,000 Per year
Undetermined
Hybrid
London
Summary: The Senior Network Security Specialist role involves designing, implementing, and governing network security controls within a high-performance enterprise network. This newly created position serves as a bridge between the Network Team and the InfoSec team, focusing on Zero Trust and micro-segmentation strategies. The role requires a hands-on approach to shaping the network security roadmap and defining policies and standards. Ideal candidates will have extensive experience in network security technologies and practices.
Key Responsibilities:
- Design, implement, and govern network security controls.
- Shape the network security roadmap and define policies and standards.
- Drive the adoption of Zero Trust and micro-segmentation across the organization.
- Act as a conduit between the Network Team and InfoSec team.
Key Skills:
- Experience defining/implementing network segmentation and micro-segmentation strategies.
- Zero Trust networking principles and identity-aware access controls.
- Designing, implementing, and optimizing firewall and proxy security policies.
- Deep hands-on experience with Fortinet, Zscaler, and Palo Alto Networks.
- Experience securing hybrid environments spanning on-prem, cloud, and containerized platforms.
- Automation and infrastructure-as-code approaches for deploying security controls.
- Routing, switching, load balancing, and security architectures.
- Knowledge of TCP/IP, BGP, OSPF, VLANs, VRF, VPN, VXLAN, NAT, ACLs, DNS.
- Experience with packet capture and network analytics and monitoring tools.
- Exposure to security controls and design for Kubernetes/OpenShift is desirable.
- Experience within highly regulated environments.
Salary (Rate): £90000 per annum
City: London
Country: United Kingdom
Working Arrangements: hybrid
IR35 Status: undetermined
Seniority Level: undetermined
Industry: IT
- £75000 - £90000 per annum
- London
- Permanent
Network Security Specialist, Fortinet, Palo Alto, Zero Trust, Zscaler, Automation
Hybrid working *** 3 days in office (London)
My client is seeking a Network Security Specialist to join his team in London. This is a newly created role and sits in the Network Team and will act as a conduit between the Network Team and InfoSec team. It is an ideal opportunity for someone who is looking to step up into a technical authority/delivery lead position.
As a Senior Network Security Specialist, you will design, implement and govern the network security controls that protect their modern, high-performance enterprise network. You will take a hands-on lead role in shaping the network security roadmap, defining policies and standards and driving the adoption of Zero Trust and micro-segmentation across the organisation.
Skills and experience required:
- Experience defining/implementing network segmentation and micro-segmentation strategies
- Zero Trust networking principles and identity-aware access controls
- Designing, implementing and optimising firewall and proxy security policies.
- Deep hands-on experience with:
- Fortinet (FortiGate, FortiManager, FortiAnalyzer)
- Zscaler (ZIA, ZPA, Zero Trust Exchange)
- Palo Alto Networks (PAN-OS, Panorama, policy design) - Desirable
- Experience securing hybrid environments spanning on-prem, cloud, and containerised platforms.
- Automation and infrastructure-as-code approaches for deploying security controls.
- Routing, switching, load balancing and security architectures, with extensive operational and engineering experience.
- TCP/IP, BGP, OSPF, VLANs, VRF, VPN, VXLAN, NAT, ACLs, DNS.
- Packet capture and network analytics and monitoring tools.
- Desirable:Exposure to security controls and design for Kubernetes/OpenShift
- Experience within highly regulatated environments
If this is of interest and you have the required skills, please submit your CV over for immediate consdieration.
McGregor Boyall is an equal opportunity employer and do not discriminate on any grounds.