Network Security Engineer Location: Stevenage/Bolton/Bristol Work Policy: Hybrid working with 1-2 days onsite per week. Salary: Up to £70,000 Headline Benefits: A bonus of up to 21%, Strong pension, 25 days annual leave, enhanced parental leave. We’re working with an award-winning, world-leading, technical & scientific engineering organisation, with sites across Europe, that have an exciting opportunity for a Network Security Engineer to join a unique, multi-national Information Management function. You will be committed to protecting critical systems and ensuring the integrity and security of network infrastructure. The Network Security Engineer role: Join a forward-thinking team as a Network Security Engineer, where you play a key role in safeguarding our organisation's network infrastructure. Your role will involve crafting, implementing, and maintaining robust security solutions to safeguard against evolving threats. Collaborating with cross-functional teams, you’ll work on implementing changes securely, identifying vulnerabilities, managing security incidents and ensuring compliance with industry best practices. This is a dynamic opportunity to contribute to security initiatives, solve complex challenges and have a direct impact on the overall resilience of our IT environment. If you are passionate about security and proactive defence, this role is the perfect fit and offers the opportunity to leverage your technical skills in a values-led company that values innovation and diversity, this is the place to make an impact. Network Security Engineer experience required: * Solid understanding of networking principles (TCP/IP, DNS, routing, switching, VLANS and load balancing) * Strong expertise in configuring, maintaining and troubleshooting firewalls e.g. Cisco, Checkpoint, Palo Alto * Experience in next-gen firewalls and advancing security features like IPS/IDS, SSL decryption and deep packet inspection. * Proven experience in managing secure proxy solutions e.g. (BlueCoat, F5) and the ability to implement policies for content filtering, SSL inspection and network traffic monitoring. * In-depth knowledge of security protocols such as IPSec, SSL / TLS, VPNs and two-factor authentication. * Understanding of network architectures and security zones (DMZ, internal networks) * Proficient in monitoring technologies PRTG, Nagios Security Clearance: British Citizen, this role will require DV Clearance. The business are firm believers in offering all staff the best possible platform to succeed, providing support for career development as well as personal assistance. They hold numerous awards on the back of this work and have a range of employee networks and internal communities that include Parents and Carers, Gender Equality, Neurodiversity, Pride, Ethnic Diversity and many more. They really care about their staff and are passionate about what they do and why they do it. Cirrus Selection offers the services of an Employment Agency for permanent recruitment and the services of an Employment Business for contract recruitment