Firewall engineer

End Date

Sunday 10 November 2024

Salary Range

£53,613 – £59,570

We support flexible working – click here for more information on flexible working options

Flexible Working Options

Hybrid Working, Job Share

Job Description Summary

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Job Description

JOB TITLE: Firewall Engineer

SALARY: £45,954 – £59,570

LOCATION(S): London or Halifax

HOURS: Full time

WORKING PATTERN: Hybrid, 40% (or two days) in an office location listed above

About this opportunity
Lloyds Banking Group is the UK’s biggest Retail, Digital and Mobile bank with over 30 million customers, so we have a big responsibility to help Britain Prosper. We’re investing £3bn into our People, Platforms and Data to become the best bank for customers and rapidly transforming into a leading UK FinTech.

It’s the role of CIO Enabling to provide the backbone / infrastructure upon which this bank operates. As the technical SME, they will expand and enhance technologies, integrate and optimise toolsets, lead project incidents, and protect internal and external customers.

You’ll help protect 1 in 3 people in the UK who use our systems, along with our 10 million active online banking users. You need to make sure that you lead project and service improvement activities to a successful conclusion, so we can become the best bank for customers. This will involve working with a team of dedicated colleagues, developing with them and building capabilities.

In addition, you’ll demonstrate an ability and desire to engage with programmes and initiatives throughout the project lifecycle, delivering their requirements and acting to prioritise and resolve issues within the team.

Your accountabilities will include:

• Acting as a contact point for business engagement for this bank critical infrastructure.

• Planning the implementation of complexed changes.

• Delivering changes of all sizes for our customers.

• Delivery of infrastructure and service improvement plans, including gateway upgrades and new builds.

• Prioritisation, handling expectations and guiding the business through the firewall change process.

Why Lloyds Banking Group

We’re on an exciting journey to transform our Group and the way we’re shaping finance for good. We’re focusing on the future, investing in our technologies, workplaces, and colleagues to make our Group a great place for everyone. Including you.
 

What you’ll need

You’ll be a networking/firewall expert, managing firewall changes in Check Point, Fortinet, and Cisco ASA. Hands-on experience in scoping and troubleshooting is required. Additionally, you’ll understand networking, security principles and design concepts.

As part of our team, you’ll work on developing long-term goals and handle firewall change remediation projects as the primary technical contact. This may involve identifying, collating, and understanding detailed information on project scope, feasibility, technical accuracy, and compliance.
 

About working for us
Our focus is to ensure we’re inclusive every day, building an organisation that reflects modern society and celebrates diversity in all its forms. We want our people to feel that they belong and can be their best, regardless of background, identity or culture. We were one of the first major organisations to set goals on diversity in senior roles, create a menopause health package, and a dedicated Working with Cancer initiative. And it’s why we especially welcome applications from under-represented groups. We’re disability confident. So, if you’d like reasonable adjustments to be made to our recruitment processes, just let us know.
 

We also offer a wide-ranging benefits package, which includes:

• A generous pension contribution of up to 15%

• An annual bonus award, subject to Group performance

• Share schemes including free shares

• Benefits you can adapt to your lifestyle, such as discounted shopping

• 30 days’ holiday, with bank holidays on top

• A range of wellbeing initiatives and generous parental leave policies

Want to do amazing work, that’s interesting and makes a difference to millions of people? Join our journey!

At Lloyds Banking Group, we’re driven by a clear purpose; to help Britain prosper. Across the Group, our colleagues are focused on making a difference to customers, businesses and communities. With us you’ll have a key role to play in shaping the financial services of the future, whilst the scale and reach of our Group means you’ll have many opportunities to learn, grow and develop.

We keep your data safe. So, we’ll only ever ask you to provide confidential or sensitive information once you have formally been invited along to an interview or accepted a verbal offer to join us which is when we run our background checks.  We’ll always explain what we need and why, with any request coming from a trusted Lloyds Banking Group person. 

We’re focused on creating a values-led culture and are committed to building a workforce which reflects the diversity of the customers and communities we serve. Together we’re building a truly inclusive workplace where all of our colleagues have the opportunity to make a real difference.