Network Security Engineer (SC Cleared)
Summary: The Network Security Engineer role requires an individual with active SC Security Clearance and hands-on experience with F5, Zscaler, and Palo Alto technologies. The position is primarily remote with occasional travel to customer sites in the UK. The contract is for six months, starting as soon as possible in July/August 2026. The engineer will be responsible for technical ownership of customer security infrastructure and acting as a point of contact for security-related changes and incidents.
Key Responsibilities:
- Strong hands-on experience of: F5, Zscaler + Palo Alto IT security technologies, including Firewalls + Network Security.
- Technical Ownership of Customer Security infrastructure estate, processes, procedures, documentation + life cycle management.
- Acting as technical point of contact + escalation for Security related changes, modifications + projects for Firewall rule bases.
- Providing technical support, Change management, for hard physical changes + soft remote changes, customer inventory management, hardware software, EOL.
- Technical point of contact for vendor support for security infrastructure incidents.
- Design of customer networks including the support of High Level design (HLD) and Low Level design (LLD).
- Advantageous Skills: Checkpoint, Juniper, Bluecoat, Cisco Network Solutions, Cisco IPT/QoS/802.1x/Inflobox DNS, Switches, Wireless, VPN (ipsec, SSL VPN, DMVPN, WAN Routing Protocols.
- Telecoms industry experience preferred.
- Active SC Security Clearance is essential for this role.
Key Skills:
- Active SC Security Clearance.
- Hands-on experience with F5, Zscaler, and Palo Alto technologies.
- Experience in Firewalls and Network Security.
- Technical ownership and lifecycle management of security infrastructure.
- Change management and technical support skills.
- Network design experience (HLD and LLD).
- Knowledge of Checkpoint, Juniper, Bluecoat, Cisco Network Solutions.
- Telecoms industry experience.
Salary (Rate): £380/day
City: Reading
Country: UK
Working Arrangements: remote
IR35 Status: outside IR35
Seniority Level: undetermined
Industry: IT
Network Security Engineer (SC Cleared)
UK Remote + Occasional Travel
6 Month Contract
£380/day (Outside IR35)
Network Security Engineer needed with active SC Security Clearance. Hands-on experience of F5, Zscaler + Palo Alto technologies preferred.
6 Month Contract. Start ASAP in July/August 2026. The vast majority of the work is expected to be remote. However, there may be occasional travel to UK customer sites including - Wokingham, Corsham, Farnborough + Warwick.
Working with a global IT Consultancy supporting a leading Telecoms end client:
- Strong hands-on experience of: F5, Zscaler + Palo Alto IT security technologies, including Firewalls + Network Security.
- Technical Ownership of Customer Security infrastructure estate, processes, procedures, documentation + life cycle management.
- Acting as technical point of contact + escalation for Security related changes, modifications + projects for Firewall rule bases.
- Providing technical support, Change management, for hard physical changes + soft remote changes, customer inventory management, hardware software, EOL.
- Technical point of contact for vendor support for security infrastructure incidents.
- Design of customer networks including the support of High Level design (HLD) and Low Level design (LLD).
- Advantageous Skills: Checkpoint, Juniper, Bluecoat, Cisco Network Solutions, Cisco IPT/QoS/802.1x/Inflobox DNS, Switches, Wireless, VPN (ipsec, SSL VPN, DMVPN, WAN Routing Protocols.
- Telecoms industry experience preferred.
- Active SC Security Clearance is essential for this role.
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