Firewall Security Engineer

Firewall Security Engineer (F5, Checkpoint, Juniper)

3 Month Contract

Warwick (Hybrid)

£380/day (Outside IR35)

Firewall Security Engineer needed with active SC Security Clearance and in-depth experience of F5 firewalls experience, plus Checkpoint or Juniper firewall. 3 Month Contract start ASAP.

paying up to £380/day (Outside IR35). Start ASAP in Feb/March 2026.

The vast majority of work is expected to be remote. There may be occasional travel to customer Data Centre sites in Warwickshire, West/South England, sometimes average 2 to 3 days weekly onsite when required.

Working with a global IT Consultancy on large-scale network solutions projects for a Telecoms end client.

Key skills, experience + tasks will include:

• Must have in-depth F5 firewalls experience, plus Checkpoint or Juniper firewall security skills.
• Technical Ownership of a Telecoms end client's Network Security Infrastructure estate, processes, documentation + lifecycle management.
• Acting as the technical point of contact for all Network Security related projects, changes and modifications, including firewall rules base.
• Point of escalation and link to vendor support for Network Security infrastructure incidents.
• Design of customer networks including input into High-Level and Low-Level design (HLD/LLD).
• Technical support, change management (physical/remote), customer inventory management, EOL, hardware, software.
• Technical Environment: F5, Checkpoint, Juniper, Bluecoat, Cisco Networking, Cisco IPT / QoS / 802.1x, switches, wireless, Inflobox DNS, SSL VPN, DMVPN, IPsec, WAN, routing protocols.
• SC Security Clearance is essential for this contract.