Network Security Engineer

Network Security Engineer (SC Cleared)

UK Remote/Hybrid

6 Month Contract

£380/day (Outside IR35)

Network Security Engineer needed with active SC Security Clearance for a 6 Month Contract. Start ASAP in August/September 2026.

The vast majority of the work is expected to be remote. However, there may be occasional travel to UK customer sites including - Warwick, Wokingham, Corsham + Farnborough.

Working with a global IT Consultancy supporting a leading Telecoms end client:

  • Must have strong hands-on experience of: F5, Zscaler + Palo Alto technologies.  Checkpoint, Juniper, Bluecoat, Cisco Network Solutions
  • Technical Ownership of Customer Security infrastructure estate, processes, procedures, documentation + life cycle management.
  • Acting as technical point of reference + escalation for Security related changes, modifications + projects for firewall rule bases.
  • Technical point of contact for vendor support for security infrastructure incidents.
  • Design of customer networks including the support of High Level design (HLD) and Low Level design (LLD).
  • Providing technical support, Change management, for hard physical changes + soft remote changes, customer inventory management, hardware software, EOL.
  • Advantageous Skills: Checkpoint, Juniper, Bluecoat, Cisco Network Solutions, Cisco IPT / QoS / 802.1x / Inflobox DNS, Switches, Wireless, VPN (ipsec, SSL VPN, DMVPN, WAN Routing Protocols.
  • Telecoms industry sector experience preferred.
  • Must have active SC Security Clearance.

Job Details

Company
Syntax Consultancy Ltd
Location
Reading, Berkshire, United Kingdom
Hybrid / Remote Options
Employment Type
Contract
Salary
£380/day Outside IR35
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