Salary: £66,000 – 106,000 per year
Requirements
- Minimum 5 years of professional, hands‑on experience designing, maintaining, and protecting large‑scale enterprise environments.
- Deep technical familiarity with the Palo Alto product line and next‑generation firewalls is mandatory.
- Must hold a UK passport or dual nationality and have at least 5 years of continuous, uninterrupted UK residency to obtain Security Clearance (SC).
- Any recent travel to politically sensitive regions must be fully declared.
- Strong attention to detail with a proven track record of producing accurate, robust technical documentation.
- Background in traditional heavy routing/switching environments moving into dedicated security operations is well suited.
- Candidates from a pure consultancy background without recent hands‑on engineering accountability will not be suitable.
Responsibilities
- Drive both business‑as‑usual operational resilience and major project deliverables independently.
- Provide subject matter expertise across the entire environment.
- Play an active role in a 2‑to‑3‑year modernization project to replace core transactional and contract systems.
- Build foundational infrastructure and defense frameworks to support the transformation.
- Partner closely with overseas shared service centres and regional security centres of excellence to roll out and integrate security technologies.
- Confidently explain and justify complex engineering solutions to both technical peers and non‑technical business leaders.
- Operate as a hands‑on technical expert who looks under the hood of the technology stack.
- Provide granular engineering examples and project detail in the CV for hiring review.
Technologies
- Support
- Network
- Security
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We are a major financial and mobility services enterprise offering a permanent, full‑time Senior Network Engineer / Cyber Engineer role based in the South East UK / Greater London area (M25 corridor). We work in a hybrid model with 2 days onsite per week, increasing to 5 days onsite during the first month for induction. The shift pattern alternates weekly between 07:00-15:30 and 09:30-18:00, plus a 1-in-3 weeks on‑call arrangement. We offer a competitive base salary, bonus, on‑call pay, shift allowance, a great pension, and many other company benefits. You will join a tight‑knit, collaborative operational tech group within a globally recognized brand, with stable career progression and substantial training budgets, and you will contribute to both day‑to‑day operations and a major long‑term modernization program.
last updated 27 week of 2026
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