Hays Technology
Senior Network Security Engineer
Job Description
Salary: £50,000 - 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 with any of the following: Fortinet, Cisco ASA/Firepower, Checkpoint, or Palo Alto
- Experience within a large-scale, complex organisation; managed service, consultancy, or B2B experience is highly beneficial
- Recent experience dealing with major incidents involving networks and firewalls
- Some industry certifications may be required for top-end salaries, such as Fortinet NSE 4/5/6/7, Checkpoint CCSA/CCSE, Palo Alto PCNSA/PCNSE, or Cisco CCNA/CCNP
- Eligibility to get SC clearance
- Join our existing Network Security team alongside the SOC
- Work with vulnerabilities and remediation steps
- Set up, maintain, patch, and upgrade customer firewalls, including Cisco, Fortinet, Palo Alto, and Check Point environments
- Work actively 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 set up, maintain, monitor, and secure their networks
- Deal appropriately with major incidents
- Make sure 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 hiring talented Network Security Engineers for a managed service environment in Sheffield City Centre. This is a permanent opportunity with a salary of £50,000 - £70,000, a 10-15% performance bonus, and additional benefits. The role is hybrid and offers the chance to progress your network security career with one of the UKs most renowned organisations. Benefits include 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 company-specific benefits.
last updated 37 week of 2026
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£75,000
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This salary is 20% below the UK median for Senior roles (£75,000/yr).
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