Contract opportunity: Network Engineer - Hampshire (Remote initially) - 3 months - inside IR35 - £350-400 per day

Please note: This role is INSIDE IR35, please do not apply if you are not happy working inside IR35

My key Client are looking for a Network Engineer to assist with project delivery. Ideally with Firewalls experience, particularly with Check Point and Palo Alto. Switching skills/experience is also highly desirable. You will be undertaking work for project managers but will be based within a team of other networks and server technical engineers. Typically, you would be working on a number of projects concurrently, from 0.5 up to 3 days a week for each project.

Your responsibilities will include:
- Switch configuration
- Firewall rule changes
- DHCP, DNS and IP changes
- Vulnerability scanning and implementing remediation work
- Designing and managing delivery of network changes from our third-party supplier
- Trouble shooting connectivity issues and ensuring quality of service
- Configuring Citrix NetScaler to implement changes to load balancing, WAF, security protocols and web re-directs

Knowledge/Experience required:
- Extreme/Dell or Cisco switching/routing
- Checkpoint and Palo Alto Firewall Policy management.
- Aruba Wireless
- Nessus Vulnerability Scanning
- Network Security principles
- Unified Comms and Avaya Telephony
- Good communication skills with experience of working in a project environment
- Experience of working with Citrix NetScaler for load balancing, WAF and/or to manage security protocols

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