Principal Security Engineer

This is a 6 months contract initially and the role is outside IR35.

Vast majority of work is expected to be remote - however there may be occasional travel to customer sites: Warwick/Wokingham/Corsham/Farnborough.

Please note that due to the nature of the role SC clearance is required.

Deliverables: -Technical Ownership of the Customers Security infrastructure estate, processes procedures, documentation and life cycle management.

-Senior Technical point of reference for all Security related projects, Changes or modifications to Firewall rule bases

• Senior technical point of reference/escalation and interface into vendor support for all Incidence related to the security infrastructure.

• Design of customer networks including the support of High Level and Low Level designs. Providing technical support, Change management, for hard (physical) and soft (remote) changes. Customer inventory management, Hardware software, EOL.

Must Have F5, Zscaler & Palo Alto knowledge and recent hands on with these technologies.

• Nice to have is Checkpoint, Juniper, Bluecoat, and knowledge of Cisco networking solutions including all the major switching families and understanding of Wireless Technologies and Cisco IPT/QoS/802.1x/Inflobox DNS.
• VPN Technologies (ipsec, SSL VPN, DMVPN and Wide Area network technologies including routing protocols.

Due to the nature and urgency of this post, candidates holding or who have held high level security clearance in the past are most welcome to apply. Please note successful applicants will be required to be security cleared prior to appointment which can take a minimum 10 weeks. LA International is an award-winning partner of choice for many of the world’s most influential companies and government organisations. Holding Enhanced Government Security Accreditation, we are recognised as the European market leader in the delivery of Security Cleared talent to organisations that demand the very highest levels of security, compliance and assurance.