Job Description
Position - Network Security Engineer
Location - Heathrow, UK (4 days from office weekly)
Contract - 6+ Months
400GBP/day Inside IR35
Job description
"Seeking a Network Security Engineer with expertise in identifying, prioritizing, and remediating network vulnerabilities, including zero-day threats.
1. Role requires a strong security mindset and hands-on experience in securing hybrid infrastructure, including on-premises, cloud, and SD-WAN environments.
2. Candidate must analyze vulnerability reports from tools such as Tenable, Qualys, AWS Inspector, and implement corrective actions.
3. Expected to remediate common network issues such as IP spoofing, default credentials, open ports, unencrypted protocols, and missing firmware patches.
4. Must be familiar with insecure legacy protocols like Telnet and SNMPv1 and enforce secure alternatives like SSH and SNMPv3.
5. Will apply hardening techniques using CIS Benchmarks, NIST standards, and industry best practices across firewalls, routers, and switches.
6. Responsible for configuring and maintaining network security controls including ACLs, VLANs, DMZs, and micro-segmentation.
7. Ensures management interfaces for network equipment follow least-privilege principles and are protected using strong...