Job Description
Network Security Engineer
100% remote
Key Duties, Accountabilities and Responsibilities:
- Works from established procedures with limited instruction.
- Assist in the development and enhancement of procedures.
- Performs moderately difficult assignments, requiring a great deal of originality and problem solving.
- Working knowledge of project management concepts; able to run small projects.
- Complies with information security policies.
- Exhibits regular, reliable, punctual and predictable attendance.
- Performs analysis of network security needs and contributes to design, integration, and installation of hardware and software.
- Day-to-day operational tasks such as firewall request and incident management.
- Designs and implements remote connectivity solutions including IPSec VPN, and SSLVPN.
- Provide security guidance and drive infrastructure decisions in collaboration with other technical and management teams, ensuring Security principles are being upheld.
- Development, deployment or administration of firewalls such as Palo Alto.
- Strong knowledge of network routing/switching (routing protocols, multicast, other LAN protocols).
- Advanced knowledge of layer 7 firewall technologies and capabilities (e.g. Application awareness, user identities, advanced threat detection, etc.)
- Conduct regular security assessments on controls and policies to iterate and improve the security posture.
- Drive/support global information security initiatives aimed at modernizing security tools and capabilities, reducing the organizations exposure and risks to network-based threats, and delivering quality information security in alignment with the organization’s goals.
Required Qualifications/Skills/Experience:
- Experience implementing network segmentation and security practices in the cloud.
- Proven ability to understand and implement complex network security concepts and technologies using (but not limited to):
- Palo Alto Networks Security Appliances (including Panorama)
- Remote Access VPN solutions (e.g. Global Protect)
- SDN technology – Cisco ACI, Silver Peak
- FireMon Security Manager (or similar firewall management/orchestration tool)
- AWS / Azure Cloud
- Network segmentation
- SSL Decryption
- Splunk
- Proven ability to understand and decode network traces and capture files.
- Proven ability to communicate in the written/spoken language with audiences of diverse technical understanding.
- Proven ability to be a self-starter with self-motivation for learning new technologies.
- Proven ability to quickly understand customer problems and how they relate to network/security infrastructure.
- Strong knowledge of network security, Palo Alto firewalls, intrusion detection systems, authentication mechanisms, encryption technologies, and networking protocols including SMTP, DNS, TCP/IP, and SNMP.
- Proven ability to navigate and understand AWS and Azure cloud environments.
- A four year computer science or related technical degree or equivalent work experience.
Job Tags
Work experience placement, Remote work