Proxy SME

Salary: £? - ? per year

• Strong implementation, architecture, and engineering experience across routing, switching, and security technologies.
• Hands-on experience with Skyhigh Security Web Gateway proxies.
• Ability to translate high-level architectures into low-level, technically viable plans.
• Proficiency in deploying and manipulating dynamic routing protocols and firewall rules.
• Business analysis skills and strategic thinking capabilities.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills.
• Knowledge of stock exchange and low-latency trading network connectivity.
• Ability to maintain focus in a dynamic business environment.
• Willingness to embrace and promote software development for automating network processes.
• Understanding of the financial institution culture and compliance landscape.
• Must reside within 40 minutes of the office.
• Ability to work in Chester 3 days per week in a hybrid arrangement.

• Implement configurations and engineer new services into production.
• Build end-to-end solutions that balance business needs with security, availability, and resiliency requirements.
• Carry out hands-on implementation and configuration of devices.
• Collaborate with support teams, business lines, and third parties to create seamless solutions.
• Elicit, analyse, and document technical application and service requirements.
• Maintain design patterns and provide feedback into architectural standards.
• Participate in the change management process.
• Manage stakeholder requirements across projects and provide ad-hoc consulting.
• Serve as a third-level escalation point for troubleshooting production network issues.
• Identify and manage risks within the environment effectively.
• Ensure documentation is updated to reflect modifications and additions to the environment.

• Firewall
• Support
• Network
• Security
• Web

We are recruiting on behalf of our client for a Proxy SME to join on a 12-month contract basis. This is an inside IR35 contract via umbrella with a daily rate of up to £600. The role is hybrid, with three days per week in Chester and two days working remotely. We are looking for an experienced professional who can help shape network solutions in a challenging, fast-moving environment.

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last updated 27 week of 2026