Network Automation Engineer

Key Essential Skills:

• 5+ years experience working network SME (Certifications required)
• Network Infrastructure: Cisco Nexus, ACI,
• Firewalls: Palo Alto, Fortinet, Juniper Firewalls, F5
• Programming: Python Scripting experience
• Devops: 5+ years' experience automated code deployment tools (Ansible, Puppet)
• SNOW
• Nanobot
• AVI Load Balancers
• Experience in host, network and application security
• Integration & Automation within AWS (Certified)
• Experience working in the financial services sector

Desirable Skills:

• Working knowledge of Agile framework and experience working with them.
• Excellent written and oral communication skills
• Extensive knowledge of Internet security issues and threat landscape
• Strong knowledge of web protocols and a good knowledge of Linux/Unix tools and architecture
• Self-driven, enjoys new challenges and quickly adapts to change in a fast-moving environment

Overview:

• An exciting opportunity has opened for a Network Automation Engineer to join us with an immediate start.
• You will be working with our client who are a global leader in financial services technology, with a focus on retail and institutional banking, payments, asset and wealth management, risk and compliance, and outsourcing solutions.
• To be successful in this role you will bring a wealth of knowledge and come from a Networking background holding 10+ years' experience working as Network Engineer with in depth knowledge of routing/switching, Firewalls and load balancers

Role & Responsibilities:

• Automate and scale security issue response
• Planning the design and implementation of changes across multiple Network technologies.
• Delivery of network and security improvement plans.
• Personally meets customer needs related to security products and services.
• Highlights and suggests improvements in processes, systems and procedures.
• Grows own capabilities by pursuing and investing in personal development opportunities.
• Demonstrable experience in network and/or security services or security principles.

Outline Thebes Group:

Thebes Group is a leading UK wide IT infrastructure technology consultancy. We are well-known for our extensive talent pool of highly competent IT professionals and exclusive Academy programmes, which provide a great opportunity to undertake technical training in core disciplines. Thebes work with a number of leading vendors, Government, financial institutions and insurance companies including investment banks, brokers and hedge funds.

Thebes does IT solutions & services differently from most other IT service providers. As an Assured Outcome Provider (AOP) we have spent fifteen years willingly sharing the client's risk with them by focusing on outputs (ie quality service & solutions and ROI) rather than inputs (ie pricelists and headcount). We do this by fitting our skills, solutions & capabilities to needs, augmenting our staff with enthusiastic professionals from our Academy programme and remaining flexible as our clients' needs change.