Role: Network and Firewall Specialist x 2 REF 99386
Contract Length: 12 months
Location: Aldermaston – 100% onsite
IR35: Inside
Pay Rate to Intermediary: Market Rate
Security Clearance: DV and Sole UK National requested
Spinwell is recruiting for a Network and Firewall Specialist for an excellent opportunity within the public sector.
RESPONSIBILITIES OF THE NETWORK AND FIREWALL SPECIALIST
- Reviewing, on a daily basis, the status of a various networks, logging incidents where appropriate.
- Escalating, in advance, to the Network Manager any likely breaches of agreed deadlines.
- Working with customers, project leads, 3rd parties and other stakeholders to discuss technical service issues assisting with the resolution of said issues.
- Creation of LLD’s for projects if required.
- Maintaining up-to-date knowledge on network technologies.
- Working to assist with capacity & availability management of various networks.
- Problem Solving: investigate and resolve problems for services within their own area of responsibility.
- Provisioning network services and devices where appropriate.
SKILLS/EXPERIENCE OF THE NETWORK AND FIREWALL SPECIALIST
- Strong understanding of network fundamentals and troubleshooting processes.
- Good Experience with some of the following:
- Experience working with Juniper Virtual Chassis and Clustering technology
- Experience with configuring/troubleshooting EVPN/VXLAN on Juniper equipment.
- Experience of configuring GRE tunnels and Routing Instances/VRFs.
- Experience of PKI / certificate generation and renewal.
- Networking: strong routing skills (OSPF, BGP), firewall configuration, WAN/LAN design, device clustering, high availability.
- Juniper Technologies: EX, QFX, switch configuration, SRX, vSRX firewall and policy config, Junos Space, Security Director, Apstra.
- Security Platforms: FortiGate, F5 BIG-IP (Load Balancing / AWAF), Pulse Secure / Ivanti, high-grade encryption.
- Identity & Access Management: Cisco ISE (full lifecycle), Windows NPS (RADIUS / 802.1X).
- Monitoring & Observability: SolarWinds, Splunk.
- Core Network Services: IPAM, DHCP, DNS.
If you are a Network and Firewall Specialist, apply now or send your CV to Spinwell!
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