Global IT CCIE Senior Network & Security Architect

Maidenhead/Sheffield/London

About RWS:

RWS Holdings plc is the world’s leading provider of technology-enabled language, content management and intellectual property services. We help our customers to connect with and bring new ideas to people globally by communicating business critical content at scale and enabling the protection and realization of their innovations.

Our vision is to help organizations interact effectively with people anywhere in the world by solving their language, content and market access challenges through our collective global intelligence, deep expertise and smart technology.

Customers include 90 of the globe’s top 100 brands, the top 10 pharmaceutical companies and 18 of the top 20 patent filers worldwide. Our client base spans Europe, Asia Pacific, and North and South America across the technology, pharmaceutical, medical, legal, chemical, automotive, government and telecommunications sectors, which we serve from offices across five continents.

Founded in 1958, RWS is headquartered in the UK and publicly listed on AIM, the London Stock Exchange regulated market (RWS.L).

For further information, please visit: www.rws.com

About The Role:

RWS are seeking to recruit a CCIE Network & Security Architect to join their team. This is a newly created role, required to design, implement, and improve the network and security infrastructure across the company. 
This is a very collaborative role that will work closely with the Infrastructure, IT, DevOps, application and multiple business systems stakeholders, to understand the current business requirements as well as predict future business needs and design the global network infrastructure and solutions in line with this.
The role will involve predominantly project based works with very little BAU support. The ideal candidate will be a self-starter requiring minimal supervision and will be reporting directly to the Global IT Head of Networks.

Skills and Experience needed:

 

•  Must hold current Cisco CCIE (network and/or security) or be able to provide equivalent demonstrable experience
•  Must have experience of working on large scale global network transformation projects.
•  Must have strong network security background and be able to put ‘security first’ always.
•  Must be able to understand and capture business requirements and provide technical solutions.
•  Must be able to conduct network architecture feasibility, design, implementation and/or modify network components where necessary.
•  Must develop and evaluate network performance criteria and measurement methods.

Key Skills and Requirements:

Applicants must be able to demonstrate comprehensive knowledge in most/all the following technology areas from design, implementation and/or troubleshooting perspective:

• Firewall Technologies;
• IPSEC/SSL VPN
• NAT/PAT/DNAT/SNAT/Policy NAT etc
• ASDM/CLI
• HA/Cluster
• NGFW/FTD/FMC/UTM
• Network Identify Providers/technologies
• NAC/CTS/IDFW/RADIUS/TACACS
• Segmentation
• Underlay technologies
• DIA/MPLS/VRF/BGP/OSPF
• Segmentation
• Overlay Technologies
• SDWAN/Multi/Hybrid-Cloud/VXLAN/CASB/ZTA/SDP/VNF
• Cloud/SaaS
• AWS/Azure/Private
• VPC/VNET/CASB
• Experience of Pulse/Juniper VPN appliances
• Experience of IDS/IPS/SiEM
• Switching (VLAN, catalyst 2k/3k, stackwise, Etherchannel, QoS)
• Experience of having working in a project environment and acted as project resource offering direction, expertise on networking and security principle

​​​​​​​Soft Skills:

• Documentation (Visio, whitepapers, reporting, updating info, presentation, knowledge share)
• Experience of stakeholder engagement and management at various levels and across cultures (internal/external customers, TAC, supplier)
• Character (approachable, flexible, self-starter, engaging, out of the box thinker)
• Ability to learn quickly and adapt to new technologies and processes
• Strong Team player with flexible mind-set and can do' attitude
• Ability to plan out work load and take on responsibility for projects
• Assisting in escalation for major network related issues.

Desirable:

• Voice (SIP/Teams)
• Wireless (Cisco/Meraki)
• Monitoring (SNMP, NetFlow, Syslog, PRTG/Solarwinds/NMS)
• Linux (Opensource technology)
• Dell/multivendor switching
• Infrastructure (VMWare/Hyper-V)

Life at RWS - We work hard together to deliver for our customers; our expertise, professionalism and determination to never let others down drives  us to be passionate and serious about what we do, deliver customer value, yet always adding a human touch 

As a company focused on connecting people through language, diversity and inclusion are fundamental to our company culture. RWS is an Equal Opportunities Employer and we are committed in ensuring that all employees work in an environment free from all forms of harassment and discrimination and one that actively promotes teamwork, diversity and trust. All employees have a right to be treated with respect and dignity. RWS operate in a manner for the inclusion of all - any form of discrimination is expressly prohibited. Employees are selected and promoted on merit alone and no other factors whether race, gender, age, religion, marital status, gender identity or disability are taken into consideration. 

We are proud to work in a company where all can succeed and grow their career and while RWS operates in accordance with all local employment laws, if local law enables any form of discrimination this is against RWS company policy and we will adhere to the highest standard.   

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