Network & Security Engineer at Hiscox in Lisbon, Lisbon, Portugal

Job Type: Permanent

Build a brilliant future with Hiscox

About us:

HISCOX is an international insurer specialized in the market of luxury goods & property, and high-end professional insurance. As experts in risk, we give people and businesses the confidence to realise their ambitions. With offices in 9 European countries, we have a very international staff and encourage a culture that fosters inclusion and collaboration, offering exciting opportunities for personal and professional growth.

In our Lisbon office we have the privilege of employing approximately 500 exceptional professionals representing 29 diverse nationalities. Despite our central location within the city, we recognize the importance of maintaining a healthy work-life balance. As part of our commitment to our employees’ well-being, we provide a 35-hour workweek along with the option for a hybrid working schedule.

The Team:

The Enterprise Technology function consists of ~300 IT professionals that deliver and maintain the technology that enables everyone at Hiscox, our partners and our customers; every hour of every day. Our business is fast moving, quick to decide and we have rapidly evolving targets and priorities. You will be used to working in a similar environment and will have the ability to work in a self-motivated and confident manner.

The Role:

Hiscox is hiring a NetSec Engineer to work within our  Enterprise Technology infrastructure team.

Key Responsibilities:

• Support the Product Owner in constructing a backlog (user stories/technical requirements)
• Work with Agile Delivery Lead in providing proper estimation of work and help in delivering the work in a timely manner
• Be an integral part of the squad and act as the go to person for networking and security requirements
• Consume and understand technical requirements and contribute to / challenge the design before executing any work
• Document the work being executed and provide handover to BAU team for day to day operations
• Collaborate with engineers, testers, and other team members for migration work , DR tests etc including working out of hours where applicable
• Communicate effectively with all levels of stakeholders, both verbally and in writing

Person Specification:

Essential skills

• Azure networking (NSG , VNet peering , Route Table , Private Link /Endpoint, Load balancer)
• GCP networking (NCC , HA VPN , VPC Network , Routers )
• Deployment , migration and support experience of Azure vWAN Hub and Palo Alto Cloud NGFW
• Build VPNs with other cloud providers and appliances
• Deployment of Advanced Threat Protection features like Antivirus , Antispyware , Vulnerability protection , URL filtering , file blocking and Wildfire in addition to firewall rules
• Azure DNS
• Infoblox DDI
• Expressroute and VNET gateways

Desirable

• Infrastructure as Code Management - Terraform , GIT , ADO

Why Hiscox?

• Healthy work-life balance with our 35h/week and hybrid working system.
• Holidays: 25 days + 2 Hiscox Days (Extra two Annual Leave).
• Health insurance, gym allowance, pension plan etc.
• After 5 years work 1-month sabbatical leave.
• Team spirit with many opportunities to engage and an open culture.

Work with amazing people and be part of a unique culture