IT Network Security Engineer
| Posting date: | 22 April 2025 |
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| Salary: | £35,000 to £36,500 per year |
| Additional salary information: | Hybrid working after probation |
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 22 May 2025 |
| Location: | Exeter, Devon, EX5 1AA |
| Remote working: | Hybrid - work remotely up to 2 days per week |
| Company: | Hunter Selection Limited |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | 102856_1745339850 |
Summary
IT Network Security Engineer
Exeter
In office during probation, 3 days per week in office thereafter
£36.5k
I am working with a manufacturing and commerce client based in Exeter.
They are looking for a network security engineer to join their IT team.
Ideally you will have some or all of the skills that are listed below.
There is training provided for the right candidate, so if you have some, or all of the below and you would like to work with the associated technologies on business projects, then this is a great opportunity to develop within your career.
You will be getting involved in building and maintaining secure, efficient and stable networks and systems. You will be responsible for ensuring that networks and communications are optimised and that they function consistently, both internally and externally.
Responsibilities:
Design and deploy companies network services securely
Monitoring and administration of installations, integration of network communications including routers, switches, firewalls, DMZ, servers, telephony, LAN/WAN.
Manage IP subnet, VLANs, DNS, DHCP, VPN's, VoIP traffic.
Protect network security.
Ensure failure protocols are in place.
Stakeholder communication.
Ensure connectivity is balanced and sufficient with failover plan in place.
General activities such as administration, asset management, documentation, hardware builds and deployment, technical support of hardware infrastructure.
Train end users in safe use of IT infrastructure, and update relevant technical documentation.
Skills and Experience:
MS Windows Environment experience
CCNA/CCNP Accreditation
Awareness of cyber threats and how to manage them is absolutely essential.
Cat6 / fibre communication protocol skills
Network - routers, switches, firewalls, LAN/WAN, servers
Active Directory / MS Entra - profiles, security groups, group policy and configuration.
Network Security and preventative security measures.
Management of web connectivity, email services, and security.
Failover protocol experience.
Asset Management.
Desirable Experience:
Dell switches with fibre
Fortigate products
SCCM / MECM
ESXi and VMware
Veeam, CrowdStrike, Cortex XDR configuration and administration
Benefits:
Holiday increases with length of service.
Hybrid working after 3 month probation.
Pension scheme
Life assurance
Flexitime
Cycle to work
And more…
This is an urgent vacancy, please apply if you would like to be considered, along with a copy of your up to date CV, quoting reference 102856.
If you are interested in this position please click 'apply'.
Hunter Selection Limited is a recruitment consultancy with offices UK wide, specialising in permanent & contract roles within Engineering & Manufacturing, IT & Digital, Science & Technology and Service & Sales sectors.
Please note as we receive a high level of applications we can only respond to applicants whose skills & qualifications are suitable for this position. No terminology in this advert is intended to discriminate against any of the protected characteristics that fall under the Equality Act 2010.
For the purposes of the Conduct Regulations 2003, when advertising permanent vacancies we are acting as an Employment Agency, and when advertising temporary/contract vacancies we are acting as an Employment Business.