Job Description
Network Engineer - Cisco, CheckPoint, Palo Alto
- Up to £49,000 + On-call/ Overtime + Discretionary bonus
- Coventry based - Hybrid Working (2 - 3 days in the office)
We are working with a well known and established financial services organisation who are in need of a Network Engineer to join their existing team due to growth.
Finance is their core business but they are genuinely passionate about technology and have some exciting projects on the horizon, which is another reason for this hire. There are migration plans in place to move from CheckPoint to Palo Alto as well as implementing AWS into their Network Infrastructure which is due to kick off very soon.
They also value automation and DevOps practices, which they are keen to introduce more of into the team and environment – Ansible skills would be highly beneficial but not essential for this role.
Learning & Development are valued very highly and as a business they are very keen on employee development and would be willing to fund any network qualifications.
There is an out of hours element, which is as and when needed, depending on the task. This could be once or twice a week. Which employees do get paid over time for.
There is also an on-call rota which is approximately 1 week every 3 months, which will also count as over time pay
Key responsibilities
- Ability to work on projects independently
- Engineer level ability to configure networking kit
- BAU & Operations
Key Skills
- Cisco, Checkpoint Firewalls AND Palo Alto Firewalls configuration from scratch
- Cisco Routing Protocols experience with tools such as BGP, OSPF, EIGRP
- F5 Load Balancing - LTM, Reverse Proxy
- Understanding of Cisco ACI
- BGP, OSPF
- Ansible/Automation – Desirable