Network Security Engineer - Nessus Experience

Job Title: Network Security Engineer - Nessus Experience
Location: Manchester - 3 days per week onsite
Salary/Rate: Up to £640 per day inside IR35
Start Date: 19/02/2026
Job Type: Contract until July

Nessus Engineer responsible for maintaining the tool and the remediation of vulnerabilities across the bank.

Job Description:

We are looking for an individual who will join the security team of a major nationwide organization, who understands Tenable and its various components. While having experience with implementing the Tenable solution key, this job also requires full-time hands-on administration of the Tenable system as well as managing the vulnerability management aspect of the tool.

Primary Responsibilities:

• Installing and Configuring Nessus, Nessus Manager, Nessus Agents, Log Correlation Engine, Nessus Network Monitor, and Security Center on both Linux/Unix and Windows based environments
• Responsible for installing and configuring Nessus Agents
• Secure Tenable server an Enable SSL
• Integrating Tenable products with LDAP, Active Directory, and CyberArk.
• Responsible for the creation of tenable Organizations, Repositories, and Scan Zones.
• Responsible for local and LDAP based user management.
• Responsible for configuring tenable plugins/feeds and adding audit files, licensing the product both online and offline.
• Responsible for adding scan policies, audit policies, and credentials to Security Center, and Nessus Manager.
• Responsible for configuring Nessus Manager scan pulls to Security Center
• Responsible for importing and adding dashboards
• Tenable-Nessus Security Analyst
• Responsible for defining scan policies and audit policies
• Responsible for adding scan credentials, scheduling scans, generating Scan Reports
• Responsible for the Analysis and validation of the scan result, monitoring, defining and configuring dashboards

Technical Skills & Competencies:

• Strong experience in Vulnerability management domain and experience with working with web Proxy teams and working on vulnerability assessment operational issues
• Experience in the design and implementation of enterprise-wide security controls to secure systems, applications, network, or infrastructure services
• Hands-on experience with security tools and devices such as network firewalls, web proxy, intrusion prevention system, vulnerability scanner, and penetration testing tools.
• Demonstrated understanding of TCP/IP networking concepts and DNS.
• Knowledge of related Identity Management tools engineering experience, including installing, configuring and troubleshooting experience with one or more of these tools: CyberArk, Splunk, Tenable-Nessus
• Level of network engineering knowledge required, in order to onboard and remediate different networking devices

Desirable:

• Previous experience in the financial sector.
• Working experience of security tool sets e.g Firewall Assurance, Cloud Access Security Broker (CASB), Cloud Security Posture Management (CSPM)
• Experience with ITIL processes
• Working knowledge of Service Now and/or Remedy Ticket Management Systems.
• Security Certification, MCSE, MCSA, CISSP, or better

If you are interested in this opportunity, please apply now with your updated CV in Microsoft Word/PDF format.

Disclaimer
Notwithstanding any guidelines given to level of experience sought, we will consider candidates from outside this range if they can demonstrate the necessary competencies.
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