Network Engineer – Check Point

Network Engineer – Check Point

Financial Services

Contract: 12 Months rolling

Romania - Hybrid

I am currently working with a leading financial markets organization that is looking to hire an experienced Network Engineer.

The role will focus on supporting Check Point firewall environments, delivering software upgrades, and executing hardware migrations within a high-availability, secure infrastructure.

Key Responsibilities

• Support and manage Check Point firewalls
• Perform software upgrades and patching
• Deliver network hardware migrations
• Troubleshoot and support complex network environments

Required Skillset

• Strong expertise in enterprise networking environments
• Hands-on experience with Check Point, alongside technologies such as Cisco, Juniper, Palo Alto, SilverPeak, Viptela, Versa Networks, F5, and Citrix
• Solid knowledge of routing, switching, data centre networking, load balancing, WAN optimisation, SD-WAN, VPNs, wireless, and internet architectures
• Experience delivering software upgrades and hardware migrations
• Understanding of network design across multi-cloud environments (AWS, Azure, Google Cloud, Oracle Cloud)
• Exposure to network programmability and automation, including REST APIs, RESTCONF, NETCONF, CLI, NX-API, orchestration tools, Terraform, Nornir, Jinja2, and Python
• Familiarity with monitoring and alerting tools, databases, and identity-based access controls (e.g. ISE, IAM)
• Working knowledge of virtualisation technologies
• Ability to collaborate with applications, storage, telecoms, systems, and wider infrastructure teams