About the role

  • Interface with business leaders on strategic planning and design of Cloud and compute services, security, voice, data centre and NOC.
  • Providing technical expertise and support in troubleshooting issues and optimising performance.
  • Designs, troubleshoots, documents, implements - (2/3, VPC, VDC, Datacentre Zones, Spanning Tree, VRF, VTP, VLANs, & cabling) problem isolation and resolution.
  • Support day-to-day Firewall and Remote Access changes for Palo Alto Networks devices and services
  • Providing technical expertise and support in troubleshooting network issues and optimizing network performance.
  • Devises solutions to operational problems within the capacity and limitations of installed equipment.
  • Identifies equipment upgrade opportunities and coordinates acquisition, deployment, and implementation.
  • Identifies and recommends architecture network topology modifications, enhancements, overhauls, migration plans to solve capacity, resiliency, or changing business needs.
  • Supports network architectural, engineering review, change planning and other oversight discussions.
  • Create and maintain documentation for use by the network operations, CISO and support teams.
  • Support Tier 2-3 team to resolve complex issues.
  • Participate in on-call support, scheduled weekend outages, and disaster recovery activities as required
  • Respond to Cyber Security incidents and proactively engage with relevant stakeholders.

Requirements

  • Bachelor’s Degree with 8 years of prior related experience or Graduate Degree with 6 years of prior related experience
  • 5-10 years Network/IT Security experience at an Enterprise/large scale level
  • Experience using one or more of the following platforms: Palo Alto Firewall (physical and virtual), Palo Alto Networks services (threat, Prisma, GlobalProtect, etc.), cloud services (Azure, AWS)
  • Certifications such as CISSP, CISA, PCNSE, Security+, CCNA
  • Experience with SDWAN implementation and/or support.
  • Experience with logging and monitoring tools (Splunk, Spectrum, Thousandeyes, etc.)
  • Extensive knowledge and experience of Core Routing and Switching design, configuration, and troubleshooting.
  • Administration Experience with Hyperconverged technologies such as Nutanix, Cohesity etc.
  • Windows/Linux server administration
  • Due to the nature of our work many roles require a UK nationality and the ability to obtain a security clearance.

Benefits

  • Hybrid working where possible, three days onsite per week
  • Flexible or part-time working arrangements considered upon request
  • 25 days holiday per year (plus bank holidays), increasing with long service and with the opportunity to buy/sell up to 5 days
  • Private medical insurance with optional family cover
  • Pension scheme of up to 7% employer contribution
  • Life Assurance 4x salary (flexible up to 10x)
  • Group income protection
  • Flexible opt-in extras such as a health care cash plan, dental insurance, gym membership, critical illness cover and cycle to work scheme
  • Employee assistance program providing mental health and wellbeing support
  • Professional membership reimbursement (discretionary)

Job title

IT Security Lead

Job type

Experience level

Senior

Salary

Not specified

Degree requirement

Bachelor's Degree

Location requirements

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