Firewall Engineer SC Clearance
New Yesterday
Job Title:
Firewall Engineer
Location:
London or Gloucester (Hybrid)
Contract Type:
6 months, Inside IR35
Day Rate: £360
The Role
Were looking for a skilled
Firewall Engineer
with active
UK SC Clearance
to join on a 6-month contract. Youll be responsible for firewall rule optimisation, configuration, and transformation activities across complex IT and OT environments.
This role requires strong experience across multiple vendors (Palo Alto, Fortinet, Cisco ASA, Check Point) and the ability to collaborate with technical and non-technical stakeholders to maintain compliance and security best practice.
Key Responsibilities
Configure, implement, and manage firewall solutions across multi-vendor environments
Review, optimise, and enforce firewall rules and policies
Support migrations and replacement projects for firewall infrastructure
Monitor traffic and logs, respond to incidents, and troubleshoot performance issues
Apply patches, firmware updates, and maintain HA firewall clusters
Ensure compliance with frameworks such as
ISO 27001, NIST, PCI-DSS
Automate rule management/reporting where possible (Ansible, Python, APIs)
Required Experience
Strong hands-on experience configuring
Palo Alto, Fortinet, Cisco ASA, Check Point
firewalls
Skilled in firewall rule tuning and optimisation
Background in
firewall migration projects
and multi-vendor environments
Knowledge of
network security architecture and best practice
Active
UK SC Clearance
(mandatory)
Why Apply?
£360 a day
Opportunity to work on complex, multi-vendor security projects
Hybrid model
London or Gloucester with some out-of-hours work
TPBN1_UKTJ
- Location:
- Basildon
- Salary:
- £360 per day
- Category:
- IT;IT