2nd Line – Firewall Support Specialist

Your role
We are looking for a Firewall Engineer to join our SDWAN Support team, to work on Project and delivery activities to support our prestigious central government customers. This role will join our growing team and lead the activities in the daily operation and support of our new service addition to the SDWAN portfolio. With lots of opportunity to widen your experience and exposure to multiple network technologies (including the industry’s first SDWAN deployments within the UK’s Secure Sector).
This would be a great opportunity for the right candidate to grow and develop technically in a team that is at the forefront of SD-WAN delivery. 
Your experience 
Knowledge and experience of firewall operations, the concepts of controlled changes and deployments to test and live services. 
Knowledge and experience of Juniper SRX firewall support, Cisco NG zone based IOS Firewall solutions.
Knowledge and experience of core WAN and LAN network solutions to support diagnosing network related faults.
Essential skills
•General Firewall build & configuration experience and troubleshooting.
•Knowledge/experience of juniper SRX and Cisco Zone Based FW’s
•Ideally exposure to McAfee Sidewinder Firewall conversion to Juniper SRX Cisco ZBFW
•Knowledge of application protocols
•Knowledge of IDS/IPS and Content filtering in boteh Juniper and Cisco environments
•Knowledge/experience of High Availability solutions
•Routing and switching experience.

General Skills
•Incident management, problem and Change management.
•Ability to interpret design documentation and define rulesets according to design.
•Knowledge sharing and training peers.
•A Collaborative working approaches.