
Hays
Senior Network Security Engineer
Job Description
Salary: £70,000 - 70,000 per year
Requirements:- A good background in Network Security within a large scale, complex organisation
- Experience setting up, maintaining, and upgrading firewalls
- In-depth experience of at least one of the following: Fortinet, Cisco ASA/Firepower, Check Point, or Palo Alto
- Experience within a large scale, complex organisation; managed service, consultancy, or B2B experience would be highly beneficial
- Recent experience dealing with major incidents involving networks and firewalls
- Industry certifications may be required for top-end salaries, such as Fortinet NSE 4/5/6/7, Check Point CCSA/CCSE, Palo Alto PCNSA/PCNSE, or Cisco CCNA/CCNP
- Eligibility to obtain SC clearance
- Join our existing Network Security team and work alongside our SOC
- Set up, maintain, patch, and upgrade customer firewalls
- Actively work on client firewalls
- Complete firewall upgrades
- Run IPS and IDS
- Perform log reviews
- Carry out general BAU tasks such as VPN creation
- Support a variety of clients by helping to set up, maintain, monitor, and secure their networks
- Deal appropriately with major incidents
- Ensure appropriate steps are in place and followed for vulnerability remediation
- Perform safe upgrades and patches where required
- Provide accurate and informed security insights internally and to our customers
- Ensure incident response levels are appropriate
- Cisco
- Firewall
- Support
- Network
- Security
- VPN
More:
We are a renowned organisation experiencing continued growth, and we are looking for talented Network Security Engineers to join us in a managed service environment in Sheffield City Centre. This is a hybrid role offering the opportunity to progress your network security career, with a competitive salary of £50,000 to £70,000, a 10% on-target bonus that can rise to 15% based on performance, study leave and paid network security certifications, internal progression opportunities, 25 days annual leave plus bank holidays, a generous pension scheme, flexible working arrangements, and other company-specific benefits.
last updated 37 week of 2026
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£75,000
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This salary is 7% below the UK median for Senior roles (£75,000/yr).
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