This is a hands-on technical role for a senior specialist with deep expertise in Check Point firewalls, supported by strong experience across Palo Alto, Cisco networking, F5 technologies, and enterprise security infrastructure.
Working within a complex and highly regulated environment, you will play a key role in delivering critical firewall replacement, upgrade, and optimisation initiatives that support secure and reliable business operations.
Key Responsibilities
- Lead the end-to-end deployment, upgrade, and configuration of Check Point firewall solutions.
- Provide technical expertise across Palo Alto security platforms and secure web gateway technologies.
- Integrate firewall solutions with Cisco routing and switching environments.
- Support firewall policy governance, optimisation, and compliance activities.
- Work closely with project teams, operational teams, vendors, and system integrators to ensure successful delivery outcomes.
- Perform advanced troubleshooting, root cause analysis, and technical problem resolution.
- Develop high-quality technical documentation, including solution designs, implementation plans, change records, test plans, and rollback procedures.
- Contribute to ongoing security architecture and technology improvement initiatives.
To be successful, you will demonstrate:
- Extensive hands-on experience with Check Point firewall platforms, including upgrades, migrations, troubleshooting, and policy management.
- Strong experience with Palo Alto firewalls and security solutions.
- Solid knowledge of Cisco routing and switching technologies.
- Experience with F5 solutions (LTM, GTM and/or WAF).
- Exposure to AlgoSec or similar network security policy management tools.
- Experience using SolarWinds or similar monitoring and reporting platforms.
- Strong understanding of cyber security principles, frameworks, and operational best practices.
- Excellent analytical, troubleshooting, and stakeholder engagement skills.
- Experience working within large enterprise or complex ICT environments.
- Experience supporting major infrastructure modernisation or cyber security programs.
- Previous exposure to healthcare, government, critical infrastructure, utilities, or other highly regulated industries.
- Familiarity with ITIL and Service Management practices.
- Experience with ServiceNow environments.
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