CheckPoint Firewall Engineer

Job description

·  Location
Halifax, West Yorkshire
·  Salary
£ 500 - £ 550 / Daily
·  Job type
Contract
·  Industry
IT
·  External Reference
19079681
·  Category
IT - Network Security

CheckPoint Firewall Engineer
Banking
Hybrid: 2 days per week onsite wherever is closest: Halifax, Manchester, Edinburgh
12 months
£500 - £550 per day

In short: CheckPoint Firewall Engineer required to join a large bank in supporting the management of the CheckPoint estate. Typically policy changes, patchwork, fault rectification - nothing too niche.

This is a shift-based role.

Early - 7AM - 7PM

Late - 7PM - 7AM

Some weekends.

You'll be claiming 50 - 60 hours per week so this will greatly increase your typical take home.

In full:

This is a key role within our firewall infrastructure team, within Network Technologies. Its primary responsibilities are implementing changes and supporting & remediating service issues, all whilst working as part of a team under a Shift Lead engineer. The position will play a role in delivering service improvements and develop new ways of working through automation initiatives, thereby improving the efficiency and effectiveness of our organisation.

This role is based on a rotating shift pattern including days and nights.

We currently have an opportunity to join a hardworking team dedicated to providing vital Checkpoint firewall protection to the organisations networks. As a Shift Member within of this team, you'll be key to implementing change requests, supporting the business through network incidence response and advising on the best course of action to achieve the goals of our internal business teams.

Role and key responsibilities

·  You can expect much of your time to be split between project delivery tasks and support work as we continually improve our offering to become the Best bank for Customers.

·  Effective change management skills are expected to succeed in this position with a high number of changes being scheduled every day.

·  You will be confident supporting incidents with guidance from the Shift Lead, requiring appropriate stakeholder management skills as a result.

·  Working alongside senior team colleagues using your technical skills and problem solving ability to quickly resolve issues as they arise at any time.

Daily activities

·  Planning the implementation of sophisticated changes

·  Delivering changes of all sizes and complexities for our customers

·  Monitoring the estate and working with colleagues across the wider IT community to identify and close down service issues

·  Incident response related to our Firewalls, fault finding and investigation of bank issues.

·  BAU team tasks supporting daily operations of the team and business.

Key skills and experience

For this role, the key areas are the following.

·  Technical capability , shown through being CCSE/CCSA certified or qualified through experience with Checkpoint Firewalls. Ideally you would also have a range of wider Cisco Networks skills and knowledge.

·  Larger enterprise environment experience , showing the ability to work being hands on with the devices to planning changes or working through control processes

·  Good communications skills as well as being able to address technical challenges in what can be driven environments are also crucial

·  Understanding of Jira and Agile working practices

·  Automation skills would also be advantageous!

Candidates will ideally show evidence of the above in their CV in order to be considered.

Please be advised if you haven't heard from us within 48 hours then unfortunately your application has not been successful on this occasion, we may however keep your details on file for any suitable future vacancies and contact you accordingly. Pontoon is an employment consultancy and operates as an equal opportunities employer.

To speak to a recruitment expert please contact Dan Minor