Network Security Engineer, Sr.
Job Description
This position is responsible for designing, building, testing, implementing and maintaining network security technologies. This includes supporting IS projects through both pre-production and implementation phases by collaborating with internal technology risk teams, network services, infrastructure management, and external business groups to understand requirements and design and implement solutions accordingly; testing and validating upgrades and enhancements prior to production implementation; providing incident support to help resolve and remediate production issues; and implementing new security controls as appropriate to mitigate threat risks. This position is also responsible for maintaining a broad understanding of security infrastructure operations and to provide technical subject matter expertise to support the ongoing assessment and mitigation of information security risks.
Essential Responsibilities
• Completes work assignments and supports business-specific projects by applying expertise in subject area; supporting the development of work plans to meet business priorities and deadlines; ensuring team follows all procedures and policies; coordinating and assigning resources to accomplish priorities and deadlines; collaborating cross-functionally to make effective business decisions; solving complex problems; escalating high priority issues or risks, as appropriate; and recognizing and capitalizing on improvement opportunities.
• Leverages knowledge of network firewall, network security, and network engineering and operations to design secure solutions to enable business processes leveraging best practices and principles of least privilege.
• Demonstrates subject matter expertise in the area of firewall rule design leveraging Palo Alto networks firewalls, PanOS, and Panorama technologies.
• Practices self-development and promotes learning in others by proactively providing information, resources, advice, and expertise with coworkers and customers; building relationships with cross-functional stakeholders; influencing others through technical explanations and examples; adapting to competing demands and new responsibilities; listening and responding to, seeking, and addressing performance feedback; providing feedback to others and managers; creating and executing plans to capitalize on strengths and develop weaknesses; supporting team collaboration; and adapting to and learning from change, difficulties, and feedback.
• Supports the review of team deliverables.
• Provides recommendations and input on options, risks, costs, and benefits for systems designs.
• Collaborates with team members to develop project support plans, schedules, and assignments.
• Translates business and functional requirements into technical specifications that support integrated and sustainable designs for designated infrastructure systems by partnering with Business Analysts to understand business needs and functional specifications.
• Serves as a liaison with business partners, Solutions, and enterprise architects to define and understand target strategies.
• Collaborates with counterparts in various IT Teams (e.g., database, operations, technical support) throughout system development and implementation.
• Develops and modifies solutions by identifying technical solutions to business problems.
• Provides consultation and technical advice on IT infrastructure planning, engineering, and architecture for assigned systems by assessing the implications of IT strategies on infrastructure capabilities.
• Reviews and makes changes to technical specifications and documentation.
• Collaborates with IT teams and key business partners to troubleshoot complex systems and provides solutions, as
appropriate.
• Evaluates existing systems to make recommendations on resources required to maintain service levels.
• Evaluates new service options, identifies issues and impacts, and provides recommendations on feasibility and ROI.
• Collaborates with architects and software engineers to ensure functional specifications are converted into flexible, scalable, and maintainable designs.
• Verifies system designs adhere to company architecture standards.
• Drives physical architecture design for new initiatives.
• Leads the implementation of assigned enterprise infrastructure systems to ensure successful deployment and operation by developing and documenting detailed standards (e.g., guidelines, processes, procedures) for the introduction and maintenance of services.
Minimum Qualifications
• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, CIS, or related field and Minimum six (6) years experience in an IT operations environment with technical experience in distributed technologies , systems development, and/or networking.
• Additional equivalent work experiene of three years may be substitued for degree requirement, in addition to minimum years of experience (9 years total)
• Two (2) years experience in the planning, design, and implementation of network security solutions, including
• Two (2) years experience in the configuration, implementation, troubleshooting, and operation of network security technologies.
• Two (2) years experience in firewall and/or security platform design and implementation.
• Two (2) years experience in IPS/IDS design and implementation.
• Two (2) years of experience working with network diagnostic and management tools.
• Two (2) years experience in Threat identification research and identify mitigating controls.
• Two (2) years experience in the configuration and management network routers and switches.
Preferred Qualifications
• Two (2) years experience in the design, engineering, implementation, and operations of cloud security technologies.
• Two (2) years experience in IT network infrastructure consulting.
• Two (2) years experience in the design and implementation of complex network infrastructure solutions.
• Two (2) years experience in the creation of technical diagrams and technical presentations.
• One (1) year of work experience in a role requiring interaction with senior leadership (e.g., Director level and above)
• Three (3) years experience writing technical documentation in an infrastructure development environment.
• Three (3) years experience working in a large matrixed organization.
• Two (2) years experience working with IT vendors.
• Three (3) years experience working with an IT Infrastructure Library (ITIL) framework.
• Four (4) years experience in the design and configuration of UNIX/Linux and/or Windows servers infrastructure.
• Four (4) years experience working with server hardware management tools and/or server hardware.
• Four (4) years experience working with configuration management software.
• Two (2) years experience in anti-virus software configuration and implementation.
• Two (2) years scripting experience using UNIX/Linux/Powershell scripting languages.
• Two (2) years of experience working with advanced features of network diagnostic and management tools.
• Two (2) years experience working with load balancing technologies. Four (4) years experience in storage engineering and/or data backup engineering, including experience with data replication.
• Four (4) years experience gathering and translating business requirements into technical specifications.
• Two (2) years experience working with Windows systems administration.
• Master’s degree in Computer Science, CIS, or related field.
• Linux Professional Institute certification or other comparable Linux certification.
• Security certification (Security+, CISSP, CISA).
• Cisco Certified Network Associate – Wireless (CCNA-Wireless) certification
• Cisco Certified Network Associate (CCNA) certification.
• Cisco Certified Network Professional (CCNP) certification.
Benefits
- Transportation.
- Life insurance.
- Medical insurance.
- Solidarity association.
- Growth plans.
- Additional days off.
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