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 + life cycle 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.