Network & Cyber Security Consultant

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Job Title

Network & Cyber Security Consultant

Location

Bristol / Halifax – 2 days week (Hybrid)

Contract

6+ months contract (Inside IR 35)

Experience

  • Junior: 5+ years
  • Mid‑senior level: 8+ years

Scope of Products

  • Supporting Products within the Digital Edge & Cyber Security Product Offerings
  • Mainly CDN to secure and optimise the banking infrastructure
  • SSL Handshake
  • EDGE load implementation for Web Apps

Skillsets Required

  • Understanding of Networking and Cybersecurity principles including DNS Resolution and IP
  • HTTP/S Methods, Headers, Status Codes
  • TCP handshake
  • OSI Model and Communications Framework
  • Attack Vectors and Methods such as DDoS, SQL, CSS, CMD Injection, LFI and Web Protocol Attacks, Botnet
  • Certificates and TLS Encryption
  • Caching and Storage on Edge
  • Content Delivery Network and Edge Computing
  • Border Gateway Protocol (BGP) and ACL's
  • Zero Trust Architecture
  • Threat Intelligence, SIEM Data and Traffic Reporting
  • Proxies and Reverse Proxies to manage Ingress/Egress
  • Cloud infrastructure, particularly

Scope of Services

  • Ability to carry out WAF/Security/Bot Manager Reviews – inspection of traffic to the edge and origin to determine threats/vulnerabilities
  • Implement Alerting and Monitoring appropriate for system errors and threats
  • Generation and Upload of Certificates for SSL handshake
  • Implement load balancing capabilities at the Edge for Web Apps
  • Implement path based routing of client traffic to relevant infrastructure
  • Proactively manage security configurations associated with hostnames by interacting with the application teams for maximum availability and smallest attack surface prioritisation
  • Ability to implement caching and storage
  • Ability to edit/implement sorry pages that handle errors effectively on Net storage based on use case
  • Validation and implementation of different HTTP methods based on Application requirements – security implications and mitigation
  • Respond to both production and pre‑production incidents in a timely manner
  • Support teams on digital modernisation journey with technical debugging both in the Akamai layer and downstream infrastructure

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Job Description:

Job Title

Network & Cyber Security Consultant

Location

Bristol / Halifax – 2 days week (Hybrid)

Contract

6+ months contract (Inside IR 35)

Experience

  • Junior: 5+ years
  • Mid‑senior level: 8+ years

Scope of Products

  • Supporting Products within the Digital Edge & Cyber Security Product Offerings
  • Mainly CDN to secure and optimise the banking infrastructure
  • SSL Handshake
  • EDGE load implementation for Web Apps

Skillsets Required

  • Understanding of Networking and Cybersecurity principles including DNS Resolution and IP
  • HTTP/S Methods, Headers, Status Codes
  • TCP handshake
  • OSI Model and Communications Framework
  • Attack Vectors and Methods such as DDoS, SQL, CSS, CMD Injection, LFI and Web Protocol Attacks, Botnet
  • Certificates and TLS Encryption
  • Caching and Storage on Edge
  • Content Delivery Network and Edge Computing
  • Border Gateway Protocol (BGP) and ACL’s
  • Zero Trust Architecture
  • Threat Intelligence, SIEM Data and Traffic Reporting
  • Proxies and Reverse Proxies to manage Ingress/Egress
  • Cloud infrastructure, particularly

Scope of Services

  • Ability to carry out WAF/Security/Bot Manager Reviews – inspection of traffic to the edge and origin to determine threats/vulnerabilities
  • Implement Alerting and Monitoring appropriate for system errors and threats
  • Generation and Upload of Certificates for SSL handshake
  • Implement load balancing capabilities at the Edge for Web Apps
  • Implement path based routing of client traffic to relevant infrastructure
  • Proactively manage security configurations associated with hostnames by interacting with the application teams for maximum availability and smallest attack surface prioritisation
  • Ability to implement caching and storage
  • Ability to edit/implement sorry pages that handle errors effectively on Net storage based on use case
  • Validation and implementation of different HTTP methods based on Application requirements – security implications and mitigation
  • Respond to both production and pre‑production incidents in a timely manner
  • Support teams on digital modernisation journey with technical debugging both in the Akamai layer and downstream infrastructure

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Posted: May 20th, 2026