Network Consutlant - £50-55k & bonus
Cardiff - Hybrid role (3 days in the office each week)
We are urgently seeking an experienced Network Security Consultant to join a client of ours that is expanding rapidly.
We're ideally looking for a strong all rounder with great communication skills to help provide subject matter expertise (including occasionally sitting in on client pre-sales meetings as the technical lead) in the field of advanced network communications technologies (AI-driven Wi-Fi, Cloud-controlled LAN/WAN, Net Gen Firewalls, Secure Access Service Edge, Software Defined WAN).
You'll also be helping with Consutling Projects and helping clients transition to a managed service.
Strong Enterprise-level technical skills & experience in some of the following technology areas would be most useful:
a. Device configuration (e.g. Juniper / Palo Alto / Cisco / HP)
b. Network design principles (e.g. routing / VLANs / firewalls / leaf-spine)
c. Managed Wi-Fi deployment and configuration (e.g. Juniper MIST / Meraki / Aruba)
d. Firewall devices (e.g. Juniper SRX / Palo Alto / Cisco / Fortinet / Checkpoint)
e. Routing and resiliency (e.g. VXLAN, MPLS, VRRP)
f. Appreciation of SASE/SD-WAN technologies (e.g. Palo Alto Prisma Access, Prisma, Zscaler, Cato
g. Patching (e.g. Firmware updates)
h. Load Balancers (e.g. F5 / Brocade)
i. Device management tooling (e.g. CiscoWorks / SolarWinds / OpenView)
j. Network connectivity troubleshooting
k. Strong understanding of IP addressing
l. Some experience with scripting languages (e.g. Powershell, Python, SQL)
m. Some experience of API usage to configure and report on systems
10. Keen interest in finding ways to make technologies produce a required output
If this sounds like it could be at all of interest, and you would like to join a company at a fantastic time of growth opportunities, then we'd love to hear from you asap!