Network Operations Security Engineer

at  Bank of Ireland

WHAT IS THE OPPORTUNITY?

A position has arisen for a Firewall Security Engineer to work within the Infrastructure Operations team in governing, managing, and reviewing the operation & change activities within the groups Firewall estate.
The successful applicant will work in a dynamic environment and have responsibility for all aspects of Firewall Operations within the BOI Network Tower!

ESSENTIAL QUALIFICATIONS

• Relevant 3rd level qualification
• High level understanding of multi-tiered application traffic flow, load balancing, and routing

IN THIS ROLE, YOU WILL:

• Responsible for FW estate operations activities incl. governance and control(s)
• Work optimally with vendor(s) to ensure estate currency and vulnerability remediation
• Oversee changes to the Firewall hardware in conjunction with the Vendor carrying out the changes.
• Responsible for the identification and logging/remediation of Risk in line with BOI Risk Management process.
• Review requests for change and translating business (non-technical language) into technical requirements.
• Responsible for analysing, documenting and certifying the current firewall rule base, including keeping the documentation & rule certification current as the estate changes.
• Responsible for ensuring that pre-existing rules are aligned with updated BOI Security Standards on an ongoing basis and lead remediation exercises where required.
• Development and monitoring of operational metrics

WHERE AGENCY ASSISTANCE IS REQUIRED BANK OF IRELAND RECRUITMENT TEAM WILL ENGAGE DIRECTLY WITH SUPPLIERS. UNSOLICITED CVS / PROFILES SUPPLIED TO BANK OF IRELAND BY RECRUITMENT AGENCIES WILL NOT BE ACCEPTED FOR THIS ROLE.

We’re on a continuous journey to build an inclusive and diverse workplace. We welcome applications from people of all backgrounds, lived experience, abilities and perspectives. We provide reasonable accommodations at every stage of our recruitment process for disabilities, neurodivergence or medical conditions. If you require an accommodation please complete this form and one of our recruitment team members will be in touch via email. Any information provided will be treated as confidential within the recruitment team and used only for the purpose of determining and providing appropriate accommodations for the application and recruitment process

Experience with any of the following will help you to stand out but is not vital in order to apply for this role;

• Forcepoint Web security or other Proxy experience
• CISCO/CompTIA and Firewall Vendor Certificatio