Network Firewall Architect

Join us as a Network Firewall Architect

• You’ll collaborate in building the best possible solutions for secure network environments and engineer infrastructure technology to comply with security, resilience, sustainability, and operational requirements with observability and guardrails built in
• You’ll also use automation to provide testing and a route to live for the solution, identifying ways to use new and existing technology tools to enhance performance, removing inefficiencies
• This is a chance to work with colleagues across the bank to share engineering best practices, allowing you to provide thought leadership while developing solutions

What you'll do

As a Network Firewall Architect, you’ll contribute to and manage the selection, creation and maintenance of technologies required to meet the needs of our customers, strategic targets and architecture outcomes, along with developing solutions using modern engineering practices and tools.

We’ll look to you to collaborate with Product Owners to develop product roadmaps and manage the lifecycle of the team's products and support engineered products to respond to customer feedback, new feature requests, resolve production issues and help customers consume our products.

Additionally, you’ll:

• Take a lead role within a team to design and engineer network security solutions which meet business requirements
• Develop technical skills through continuous learning and development
• Contribute to the delivery of infrastructure as code solutions
• Build an awareness of design thinking tools and techniques with users in order to improve your product
• Provide operational support for pattern or product related issues
• Work with key vendors in the delivery of the infrastructure services and technology for the product

The skills you'll need

To thrive in this role, you’ll have experience in networking and network design. You’ll also have some exposure to implementation of modern infrastructure as code via tooling.

We’ll expect you have a Network Security Expert FCP/FCSS certification, as well as experience designing and implementing VPN solutions. Good knowledge of TCP/IP and packet flow analysis would be advantageous, along with knowledge of Border Gateway Protocol (BGP).

Furthermore, you’ll need:

• A CCNP qualification or equivalent networking knowledge
• A track record of delivering network solutions using enterprise firewalls
• Extensive hands on experience with Fortinet FortiGate, FortiManager, and FortiAnalyser products
• An understanding of CI or CD pipelines using modern tooling
• Experience in software testing practices and tools and in using observability tools and techniques with the ability to use data, information and user sentiment to continuously improve solutions
• Public cloud vendor knowledge covering GCP, AWS and Azure
• Experience of working with technology deployed to an on premise datacentre
• Strong collaborative communication skills for articulating technical concepts clearly to stakeholders
   

Hours

35

Job Posting Closing Date:

24/03/2025

Ways of Working:Hybrid