Network Security Engineer

A leading UK law firm with a network of offices from the South Coast to Scotland, working together as one national team. An innovative practice and the first top 50 law firm to achieve “Platinum Standard” Investors in People, our values and culture are not just words on our website but are the heartbeat of the firm. The lack of barriers between departments, a real lack of hierarchy, zero tolerance for arrogance makes Shoosmiths a fantastic place to work.

Reporting to the Senior Network Engineer the job holder is required to plan, design, optimise, implement, audit and, troubleshoot the network security system to improve the efficiency of the firm.

The job role needs to maintain the firm’s security protecting it from vulnerabilities and attacks that present a risk to the firms’ operation.   They need to ensure a resilient architecture is provided with the provision to withstand any threat.

The role is multi-disciplined in a UK based multi-branched firm, expertise is required in Information Technology, networking and information security.   Experience working with cloud providers is also required.

Job holder will be required to travel to Shoosmiths offices as and when required

Principal Responsibilities

• To maintain the firm’s security and network posture/performance by proactive monitoring our network and security infrastructure
• To identify, diagnose, and resolve information security/ network issues.
• Based on assessment-based findings, outcomes, and propositions for further system security/ network enhancement.
• Ensure proper protocols and processes are followed by creating and maintain comprehensive documentation related to network and security infrastructure.
• You will be expected to work on both projects and support
• Maintain strong relationships with integrators and vendors to maintain support levels, upgrades, installations, and planning alongside exploration of new features and innovative solutions.

Secondary Responsibilities

Maintain a watching brief on industry developments and technologies and identify, propose and recommend where requirements are noted.

Act as an out of hours 24x7 escalation contact.

Proven 5-7 years professional experience as a network security or information security engineer, including experience of troubleshooting and supporting data network and server architecture.

Desired

• Enterprise firewall experience – experience configuring and managing enterprise firewalls and gateway devices is important in this role, specifically policies around-
  • DDOS
  • Antimalware
  • AntiSpyWare
  • DLP
  • Content Filtering
  • DNS Security
  • Vulnerability Protection
  • IPSEC VPNs

• Enterprise Threat Prevention and EDR technologies- experience configuring and managing enterprise next generation endpoint protection and threat hunting
• Enterprise Vulnerability assessment tools- experience in performing regular proactive scans and reacting to those findings
• Enterprise Mail Security technologies- experience configuring and managing enterprise email security policies for URL protection, DMARC, DKIM, SPF, Sandboxing, DLP, SPAM, Business Continuity etc
• Enterprise PKI Environment- experience in maintaining both internal and external pki environments
• Enterprise LAN/ WAN and Voice experience- experience configuring and managing enterprise switches, routers, load balancers and wireless devices
• Enterprise Voice Technologies- Unified telephony including sip, voip conferencing and softphones, instant messaging and presence, contact centre and call recording
• Sound understanding of backbone infrastructure encompassing LAN and WAN technologies, dynamic routing protocols, VPCs, trunking, Blade chassis networking, active directory, group policies, domains and DNS
• Enterprise cloud technology experience- specifically around securing Azure SAAS, PAAS and IAAS solutions
• Communication skills – it’s crucial that the candidate has the ability to communicate network/ security issues to peers and management clearly and effectively
• Adaptability – To work as a member of several teams, which requires flexibility and adaptability. Candidates interested in this role should be comfortable working in a matrixed IT environment
• Problem-solving skills – it’s the network security engineer’s job to solve problems. Security/ Network incidents can happen at any time and it’s expected that these engineers will research, escalate, and resolve issues effectively

Advantageous

Experience in the following Vendor Technologies

• Palo Alto 220, 820, 3000, 3200, 5200 series firewalls
• Cisco Nexus and Catalyst switches
• Cisco 1000, 2000, 4000 series Routers
• Cisco Meraki- MR and MX Series
• Calabrio
• Mimecast
• Rapid7
• Sentinel One
• F5 Reverse Proxy, LTM, APM and GTM
• Cloudflare
• ADFS/ Azure SSO
• Microsoft Window 10, Server 2008-2019, PKI Infrastructure
• MFA Technologies- RSA and Microsoft

Experience of working in a Cloud first environment.

Network engineer certifications such as CCNP Security and CISSP.

Experience of working in the legal or professional service sector.

Experience of working in environments subject to compliance.

Excellent customer service skills and ethos.

Due to the nature of the work undertaken, confirmation of employment will be subject to a variety of checks which will be carried out once an offer of employment is accepted.  These checks will include employment references covering the last 5 years, proof of ID, proof of address covering the last 5 years, Personnel Vetting credit search (which will only highlight insolvency or County Court Judgments - should any adverse data show on the Personnel Vetting search then any offer of employment made will be withdrawn).Terrorism Check (against data supplied by the Bank of England) and a DBS check previously known as a Criminal Records check

Our approach to our people is underpinned by our approach to diversity, inclusion and well being. Our ambition is to build a diverse and ambitious workforce that reflects all backgrounds and talents, and a workplace that is supportive and inclusive, recognises and nurtures talent, and has a strong sense of community between colleagues.

This means that everyone who either applies to or works for the firm is treated equally, whatever their gender, age, ethnic origin, nationality, marital status, disability, sexual orientation or religious beliefs.