Network Security Engineer

Location: Eeklo, Belgium

Duration: 6 months

Regime: 5 days onsite per week

Experience Level: 5+ years

Business Context

The team manages more than 30 locations, supporting 1,350 users across 4 continents, covering both office and production networks. The mission is to ensure a reliable, high-performance, and secure network for all users.

The focus lies on networking and security. We are seeking a consultant who can:

• Apply the right security layer across network, server, and cloud landscapes.
• Help monitor, maintain, and expand security capabilities.
• Provide architectural input and operational execution.
• Support the team as a potential backup lead.

Responsibilities

• Participate in network projects and perform security-related operations and optimizations.
• Contribute to architectural-level discussions and decisions.
• Act as the daily point of contact for security-related incidents across systems and users.
• Proactively detect abnormal or suspicious activity, investigate inconsistencies, and provide security reporting.
• Maintain up-to-date documentation for processes, environments, and end-users.
• Keep current with security trends and emerging challenges across End User Workplace (AV, hardening), Networking & Firewalling, Cloud Applications, OT, Servers, and Virtualization.

Technical Context

• Firewalling: Palo Alto (initial setup, rule base design and maintenance).
• Cloud Networking & Security: Microsoft Azure.
• Network Engineering:
• Cisco switching and routers.
• Cisco ISE, SDA, Cisco Catalyst.
• LAN / WLAN / SD-WAN, Wireless.
• Segmentation: IT/OT environments.
• Security Principles: Zero Trust.
• Standards/Frameworks: NIS2 knowledge is a plus.
• Operations: SOC/NOC, incident detection, response, and monitoring.
• Vulnerability & Risk Management:
• Vulnerability detection, prioritization, patching.
• Risk assessment and mitigation.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of relevant network and security experience.
• Master’s degree in IT or equivalent is a plus.
• Certifications highly valued:
• Palo Alto PCNSA, PCNSE.
• Microsoft SC-200: Security Operations Analyst.
• Microsoft SC-300: Identity and Access Administrator.