Overview
Information Technology Security Engineer Jobs in United Kingdom at Pearson Whiffin Recruitment Group
Title: Information Technology Security Engineer
Company: Pearson Whiffin Recruitment Group
Location: United Kingdom
Illumio Engineer – GCP / GCVE Migration Project
We are looking for an experienced Illumio Engineer to support a major transformation programme involving migration to Google Cloud Platform (GCP), including Google Cloud VMware Engine (GCVE).
This is an exciting opportunity to join a high-profile cloud migration project focused on modernising infrastructure, enhancing security segmentation, and enabling secure workload migration into GCP.
Key Responsibilities
- Design, implement, and support Illumio micro-segmentation solutions across hybrid environments
- Work closely with cloud, infrastructure, and security teams during migration to GCP and GCVE
- Define and enforce security policies for workloads migrating from on-prem VMware environments into GCVE
- Support application dependency mapping and segmentation strategy development
- Troubleshoot Illumio policy, agent, and connectivity issues
- Assist with migration planning, testing, and cutover activities
- Ensure compliance with security and governance standards throughout the programme
Required Skills & Experience
- Strong hands-on experience with Illumio Core
- Proven experience working on cloud migration or data centre transformation projects
- Experience with Google Cloud Platform (GCP) and/or GCVE
- Good understanding of:
- VMware environments
- Network security and segmentation
- Firewall policy management
- Hybrid cloud infrastructure
- Experience working within enterprise-scale environments
- Strong stakeholder communication skills
Desirable Skills
- Experience with:
- Terraform / Infrastructure as Code
- Palo Alto, Check Point, or NSX security technologies
- Kubernetes or container security
- CI/CD and automation tooling
