Network Security Engineer — Check Point / Fortinet

**New York Hybrid $125k- $145k + Benefits**

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We are supporting a live requirement for a hands-on Security Engineer to join a major financial services environment in the NYC area.

This role is focused on production network security engineering , not general network support or high-level architecture. The ideal profile will have recent, practical experience supporting firewall, proxy, DNS and load-balancing infrastructure in a large enterprise environment.

Role overview:

• Salary: circa $140k base
• Location: NYC / Jersey City area
• Working pattern: Hybrid — typically 3 days per week in office
• Benefits: Healthcare, wider benefits package and flexible working
• Environment: Major financial services / banking infrastructure
• Role type: Hands-on BAU / L3-L4 network security engineering

Core experience required:

• Recent hands-on experience with Check Point and/or Fortinet / FortiGate
• Strong understanding of firewall policy changes, NAT, VPNs, rule reviews and troubleshooting
• Operational experience with F5 LTM / GTM load balancing
• Experience supporting DNS / DHCP , ideally with Infoblox
• Exposure to enterprise proxy environments, ideally Blue Coat and/or McAfee
• Strong production support background, including incidents, controlled changes, documentation and RCA
• Comfortable troubleshooting across TCP/IP, routing, firewalls, proxies, DNS and application connectivity
• Able to work in a structured, highly controlled enterprise environment

Financial services or banking experience would be helpful, but the main priority is recent hands-on depth across the core technologies .

This is best suited to someone who enjoys being close to the infrastructure, solving production issues, supporting critical systems and taking ownership of technical changes.

Please message me directly for a confidential discussion.

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