Network Security Engineer - Chester, United Kingdom - eFinancialCareers

eFinancialCareers

Verified Company

Chester, United Kingdom

2 weeks ago

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Tom O´Connor

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Description

The Team:

The team consists of 25 Network Operations engineers, conversant in a range of Data, Security, Voice and Collaboration technologies.

The team are based in 3 locations within the UK - Chester, London and Camberley although this specific role is Chester based.

The team has a close working relationship that supports each other and is considered a high performing team.

The team is also part of a follow the sun model so this involves interaction with our global colleagues in the AMRS and APAC regions (specificallythe US, Singapore and India).

Core Skills:

Operational Support of Network Perimeter Security technologies
Fortinet, Checkpoint, and Trend Micro
Technical areas of focus include but are not limited to firewall, network address translation, routing, and intrusion detection/prevention systems
Lead production support triage efforts for network infrastructure incidents, manage bridge line troubleshooting and appropriate team engagement, engage in technical research and troubleshooting, and escalate to next level of leadership as needed
Identify service impact, interpret monitors, dashboards, and logs; Work with senior team members to validate impacts and communicate all impacts to internal stakeholders and leadership
Provide status updates and technical detail for awareness communications, ensure accuracy of all communications sent, and ensure any necessary followups are scheduled.
Identify possible production failure scenarios, vulnerabilities, and opportunities for improvement, and take ownership of escalation.
Responsible for data quality and completion of incident tickets, including ensuring all impacts are accurately recorded and documented in the system of record.
Work adhoc reports and offline incidents at the direction of the senior team members or leadership
Promote and enforce production governance during triage/testing and fix efforts, exercises judgment within defined procedures and practices to determine appropriate action
Technical areas of focus include but are not limited to Firewall and IDS/IPS
Must adhere to design standards and global design authority processes and procedures.
The ability to assemble professional documents based on existing templates and ability to provide accurate work descriptions with assumptions, and caveats.

Required Skills:

Experience with Network technologies

Perimeter Security Technologies

Controllers, Management Platforms, Tunnelling protocols
SSL/TLS, IPSEC, GRE, Network Resiliency
HAlocal failover, backups, WAN/MAN, Routing, Switching, Firewalls, LAN, TCP/IP, DNS, UDP, Latency, VRRP, BGP, Multicast,IPv4, IPv6, VPN
Proxy/Threat Prevention, DDI, Load Balancing, AAA
Experience operating various firewall platforms (Checkpoint, Fortinet, Trend Micro, Palo Alto SD-WAN Zone Firewall) including expertise with their management platforms
Experience with troubleshooting complex networking problems
Understand configuration management with tools such as Forward Networks and HPNA
Experience using (both proactive and reactive) advanced tooling; Inclusive of but not limited to Netscout, Wireshark, Splunk, SevOne, HPNA, NNMI, OBM, IBM Watson, NSO, etc.
General experience in Network Automation tools and processes
Selfstarter/selfdirected, organized and detail oriented
Strong technical acumen and analytical skills
Excellent client interfacing skills
Strong verbal and written communication skills and ability to work with all levels of management
Experience aligning actions to business impact and service restoral
Demonstrates ownership: Is accountable and can hold others accountable (professionally)
Experience operating with colleagues across different time zones with a flexible approach to working hours (ability to work varied hours) to successfully interact and communicate on a global level

Desired Skills:

Experience with other network technologies
WAN, MAN, LAN, Optical, Routing and Switching
Experience in Networkingrelated disciplines within a design, implementation, or operations role
Relevant Industry certifications in Network Technologies
Cloud or SDN knowledge and experience
Experience with SDN; Cisco ACI, VMware NSX, Arista CloudVision
Experience with SDWAN, preferred if on Cloudgenix
Experience with automation tools such as Python, Ansible, YAML or Django, API calls (to ticketing systems and network devices), and frontend web development
Experience working in an Agile environment
Experience of working within Financial Services (Insurance, Banking, Investment banking)

Bank of America:

Good conduct and sound judgment is crucial to our long term success.

It's important that all employees in the organisation understand the expected standards of conduct and how we manage conduct risk.

Individual accountability and an ownership mind-set arethe cornerstones of our Code of Conduct and are at the heart of managing risk well.

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