Senior Network Security Engineer (Deployment) - Fortinet NSE4 or above

Job Description

A Senior Network Security Engineer is required to join the London Deployment Team, responsible for the deployment and planning of the Bank’s network infrastructure in the UK, Middle-East, Africa and India.

The team is responsible for the delivery and deployment of network/security projects and requests to enhance the client’s infrastructure to meet current and future business demands:

Required skills

• Good level of Cisco Routing & Switching
• Strong CCNA or CCNP certification or equivalent experience
• Experience with Fortinet Firewalls
• Firewall Migration experience, FortiAnalyzer, FortiConverter, FortiManager
• Ability to handle numerous separate projects concurrently
• A very organised individual
• Ability to work under pressure and to tight deadlines whilst maintaining attention to detail
• Analyse, review and understand network topologies
• Coordinate multiple projects, change management and governance efficiently working both independently and as a member of a team
• Good understanding of networking principles
• Good documentation skills using MS Office suite and Visio
• Good customer facing skills with the ability to keep the customer informed at all times and understand their requirements
• This role is suitable for a Security Engineer who has at least 3 years as a Senior Project Engineer in a professional environment

Desired skills (not essential)

• Experience with Cisco ACI
• Fortinet NSE4 Certification or above
• Experience with EVPN
• Checkpoint certification or equivalent experience
• Fortinet certification or equivalent experience
• Load Balancing Experience (F5)

The role may have, but is not limited to the following functions:

• Plan, manage and deploy technology changes to support DC services
• Deploy LAN infrastructure to support end user services requirements
• Includes patching schedules for facilities to cable network equipment
• Diagrams for Network Operations
• Inventory management

Create implementation plans for RFC’s to a high level of detail:

• Correctly document pre and post checks for change verification purposes
• Understand and document back out plans, clearly identifying back out points
• Identify points of no return

Support the stability and uptime of essential services by planning changes with a documented best approach mindset:

• Identify where changes can be completed with zero downtime to hosted services
• Plan and implement changes with a cost-effective resource strategy
• Identify, understand and document change risks and mitigation tactics
• Identify, understand and document impact of planned technology changes, including documentation expected output from verification

Document network estate for Operation Support and to support change planning:

• Maintain infrastructure database
• Complete network diagrams to a high standard

Peer review and validation of technical deployment plans:

• Provide constructive feedback to peers to support change control requirement and maintain high standards of detail and quality offered by CACI