Senior Network & Security Engineer

📍 Cardiff, Wales

Based in Cardiff Bay, we are an innovative company specialising in providing networking and security services to our customers. We provide these services to a wide range of customers throughout the UK and Europe and beyond. We have grown rapidly since our doors first opened, our customer base is growing, and we are therefore looking to appoint a talented Senior Network and Security Engineer.

  • Salary up to 35k + excellent benefits (dependent upon knowledge and experience)

  • Comprehensive technical training regime

  • Cardiff Bay location - easily commutable with parking

About Optec

Founded in 2016, Optec is a UK-based organisation that delivers network and security services and solutions to a wide-range of companies and industries. We pride ourselves on being able to offer a bespoke and personalised service to meet our customers’ individual needs for network, security and infrastructure projects.

What you will be doing:

Our customer base and workload have been steadily growing over the last two years and we are now looking to expand our team by bringing a new Senior Network and Security Engineer onboard. You will be heavily involved in new projects, encompassing the full project lifecycle from initial customer meetings, identifying requirements, and producing low level designs, building the solution, and providing on-going third line support.

As well as project work, you will also act an escalation point to the first- and second-line teams for day-to-day support of our existing customers.

Essential Experience:

  • Experience providing third line support or equivalent for production networks

  • Experience building and supporting with firewall platforms including FortiGate, Palo Alto, Cisco, and CheckPoint

  • Experience designing network solutions and creating low level designs to meet customer requirements

  • Experience of network services including VPN / DNS / DHCP

  • Experience of network troubleshooting from initial fault through to resolution and producing RFOs

  • Experience of working with complex routed environments

  • Experience of working with large scale switched environments

  • Experience of designing, building, and supporting wireless networks

Essential Qualifications (minimum two of the following):

  • Fortinet certifications (NSE4 / NSE5 / NSE6 / NSE7)

  • Cisco certifications (CCNA / CCNP)

  • Cloud Certification (AWS Associate / Professional / Specialist or Azure AZ-20x, AZ-30x or AZ-40x)

  • Palo Alto certifications (PCNSA / PCNSE / PCCSE)

  • Other professional level technical certifications will be considered

If you think you’re a good fit and are interested in driving your career at a fast-growing and fun company, please submit your CV to recruitment@optec.co.uk