Network Security Engineer

Rate: up to £469 per day - Umbrella only

Duration: 6 months

Location: Knutsford with 3 days/week in office

Technical Skills & Competencies

AlgoSec & Security Policy Management

• Hands-on experience administering and supporting the AlgoSec Security Management Suite, including:
  • Firewall Analyzer
  • FireFlow
  • ObjectFlow
  • AppViz
• Experience utilising AlgoSec to automate firewall policy management, risk analysis, access recertification, change governance, and compliance reporting.
• Strong understanding of application connectivity mapping, traffic flow analysis, and security policy optimisation.

Firewall & Network Security Technologies

• Extensive experience managing large-scale, multi-vendor firewall environments, including:
  • Palo Alto Networks
  • Fortinet
  • Cisco ASA / Firepower
  • Check Point
• Strong understanding of firewall architecture, policy administration, NAT, VPN technologies, segmentation, and micro-segmentation.
• Experience performing firewall rule reviews, recertification exercises, policy optimisation, and risk reduction initiatives.

Network Security Operations

• Strong operational experience supporting enterprise network security environments.
• Experience managing security incidents, firewall requests, policy exceptions, and operational support within regulated organisations.
• Understanding of firewall compliance management, governance processes, audit requirements, and regulatory controls.
• Experience working within ITIL-aligned Incident, Problem, Change, and Service Management frameworks.
• Knowledge of network access controls, intrusion prevention systems (IPS), intrusion detection systems (IDS), DDoS protection, and secure web gateway technologies.