Network Security Engineer

Opticore IT is a specialist Network Engineer and Project Management consultancy offering a wide variety of opportunities to work within fast-paced, challenging environments across our client base spanning multiple sectors including Finance, Broadcast Media, Telecommunications and more. Opticore IT are currently searching for a Network Security Engineer to join a customer environment supporting a major network security project, this opportunity will work alongside an existing Palo Alto consultant from Opticore. This will be an initial 6 month contract inside IR35 with scope to extend and requires one day onsite per week in Central London. This opportunity will work alongside an existing Opticore employee, providing hands-on engineering and operational support throughout the project working closely with customer site to solve complex technical challenges they are facing. What you'll be doing:

• Work closely with the existing Opticore Palo Alto consultant to support delivery of the project.
• Provide hands-on Palo Alto Networks engineering and operational support within the customer
• environment.
• Manage, troubleshoot and optimise Palo Alto Networks firewalls, including active/active high-availability deployments.
• Use Strata Cloud Manager (SCM) to manage, monitor and administer the Palo Alto security environment.
• Troubleshoot complex firewall, HA, connectivity and performance issues.
• Support firewall policy, security rules, NAT and configuration management.
• Provide technical support for proxy infrastructure and associated security policies.
• Work collaboratively with the customer's network, security and infrastructure teams.
• Assist with firewall upgrades, configuration changes, migrations and maintenance activities.
• Support the migration and transformation of legacy firewall and proxy technologies where required.
• Participate in technical workshops, troubleshooting sessions and project activities.
• Contribute to technical documentation, operational procedures and knowledge transfer.
• Act as a trusted technical resource within the customer's security engineering team. What you'll bring:
• Strong knowledge of Palo Alto Network Firewalls
• Extensive experience with Palo Alto Active/Active
• Strong knowledge of Strata Cloud Manager
• Strong technical stakeholder and enterprise customer management Diversity: