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Job Title: Proxy SME Engineer

Location: Chester - Hybrid (3 days in office)

Contract: 12 months with possible extension.

Rate: £550 inside umbrella

Role Overview

We are hiring a hands-on Proxy SME to lead the build, deployment, and implementation of Skyhigh Secure Web Gateway (SWG) solutions within a large-scale, enterprise environment.

This is a delivery-focused engineering role - ideal for candidates who enjoy taking designs and driving them through to production, owning everything from initial build through to live implementation and early life support.

What We're Looking For

• Proven experience building and implementing Skyhigh (or McAfee) Web Gateway proxies
• Strong hands-on engineering background across:
• Proxy technologies (policy, SSL, traffic handling)
• Routing, switching, and Firewalling
• DMZ/secure network design
• Experience delivering:
• Production implementations and large-scale deployments
• Low-level design to live build execution
• Strong troubleshooting capability within complex enterprise environments
• Comfortable working in a fast-paced, change-driven environment

Nice to Have

• Automation experience (Python/Ansible/APIs)
• Financial services or regulated environment experience
• Exposure to low-latency or trading network environments

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