NETWORK SECURITY ENGINEER 

Overview:

TekWissen Group is a workforce management provider throughout the USA and many other countries in the world. Our client is a global operator, franchisor, and licensor of hotel, residential, and timeshare properties. The company is primarily focused on management, franchising, and licensing of its lodging properties. It also occasionally develops, acquires or renovates hotel and residential properties, directly and through partnerships, joint ventures, and other business structures with third parties.

Position: NETWORK SECURITY ENGINEER

Location: Bethesda MD20817

Duration: 11 Months

Job Type: Contract

Work Type: Remote

Job Description:

This position is a part of Client team and has responsibility for engineering, implementing, and supporting network security solutions in a highly distributed global enterprise environment on-prem and in public cloud.

CANDIDATE PROFILE

Education and Experience

Required:

Bachelor's degree in Computer Sciences or related field or equivalent experience/certification
5+ years of information technology experience, with 3+ years of experience in network security:
Cisco Firepower IPS and Paloalto NGFW Experience
Experience in Networking, Firewall, Intrusion Detection and Prevention, network segmentation, vulnerability and compliance management, or risk and security monitoring
Experience in networking design and concepts to include TCP/IP, switching, routing, firewalls, F5 Load balancer, virtual route forwarding and VLANs.
RADIUS and TACACS+ Experience
Working experience with Firemon, Infoblox, Splunk, Data Lake, Service Now
Paloalto NGFW TLS inspection practical experience and implementation
Knowledge of security domains within Public Cloud, such as AWS, GCP, Azure


Preferred:

Current information security certification, including Certified Information Security Manager (CISM), or Certified Information Systems Security Professional (CISSP); CCNA
Two or more years of experience with Public Cloud
Familiarity with security frameworks CSA, NIST, CIS, PCI DSS, etc.
Thorough understanding of the following security technologies:
Intrusion Detection/Prevention Systems (IDS/IPS)
Log Management
TLS inspection, URL filtering, DNS
Must be well-versed in multiple areas of network security products
Must be well versed in multiple OS platforms (Windows, Linux, iOS, Android)
Must be well versed in common network security threats, as well as best practices to mitigate them
Strong network layer knowledge
Technical skills to identify and assess cloud security vulnerabilities and risks
Expertise in researching & evaluating identified vulnerabilities and risks pose to the organization's information and systems
Technical leadership experience in a sourced environment
Excellent communication skills and problem-solving ability
Demonstrated ability to work independently and with others
Ability to manage the details and compliance with standards and expectations
Technical infrastructure operations, administration, or engineering background

CORE WORK ACTIVITIES

Network Security

Develop IPS policies in alignment with business and security requirements
Perform daily support operations within 24/7 schedules
Responsible for the operation, performance, availability and capacity of the Intrusion Prevention Systems (IPS)
TLS inspection policy design and implementation
Splunk and Data Lake log analysis in conjunction with security information and event management (SIEM) tools.
Collaborate with global team
Contribute to overall IPS process improvements and documentation
Represent and contribute to the overall threat prevention solutions and methodologies
Represent the Security Engineering team with various stakeholders to drive remediation of identified risks, endorse preventative solutions gather requirements, and influence stakeholders to reduce risk and maintain security alignment to corporate and or industry requirements.
Create and implement an operational security program to ensure the security of IPS solution.
Identify, select, deploy, and maintain appropriate monitoring and configuration management tools to provide proactive monitoring and management of the security posture of production environments.
Stay current on cloud security policies, standards, regulations making recommendations for the company
Work closely and collaboratively with Information Security, Technology teams and Business units to support their needs
Act as an advocate of information security policies, standards, controls and as an enabler to the business while managing risk appropriately
Drive mitigation of reported risks from continuous monitoring solutions
Track and report on the status of cloud security risks to corporate/industry requirements.
Gain deep security-level knowledge of on-prem and cloud environments, continuous monitoring solutions to understand and provide direct guidance for security remediation activities.

Tek Wissen Group is an equal opportunity/affirmative action Employer (m/f/d/v) supporting workforce diversity.