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Position: Sr. Network Security Engineer
Location: Reston VA #REMOTE
Duration: Long term
Job Description:
- Develops and implements security solutions. Administers security technology systems by architecting and engineering/developing trusted systems into secure systems.
- Assists in the development of implementation and deployment plans that are aligned to the organizational strategic plan objectives and security requirements.
- Advises management in developing cybersecurity policies processes and procedures.
Required Skills:
- Demonstrated experience with Palo Alto firewall
- Demonstrated experience with F5 WAF and or Illumio Microsegmentation
- Demonstrated expertise of TCP/IP fundamentals IP sub netting routing protocols (OSPF BGP) and network management
- Demonstrated expertise of pointtopoint VPN and other WAN connectivity options
Bonus Skills:
- Demonstrated experience with AWS security tools
- Demonstrated experience with Proofpoint Gateway (Email Security)
- Demonstrated experience with Splunk and Palo Alto SOAR
Responsibilities:
- As a Senior Network Security Engineer you will be responsible for operating and maintaining network security infrastructure to support missioncritical operations.
- Oversee security infrastructure sustainment maintenance and advanced configuration of security tools (Palo Alto firewalls F5 WAF Illumio Proofpoint mail gateways IDS AWS and other security tools).
- Respond quickly and effectively to network issues outages and change requests.
- Recommend and perform system maintenance on network and security hardware/software as required.
- Utilize network monitoring tools to proactively address capacity performance and availability issues before service degradation occurs.
- Create and implement automation to increase efficiency deployment velocity and reduce errors.
- Participate in 24x7 oncall rotation.
- Providing mentoring for other engineers on equipment/software.
- Cross train inhouse to share knowledge and share workload.
Qualifications:
- Education Level: Bachelors Degree (Computer Science Information Technology or related field)
- 5 years relevant IT security experience
- CISSP Certified Information Systems Security Professional Upon Hire Req or
- CISM Certified Information Security Manager Upon Hire Req or
- Certified Ethical Hacker (CEH) Upon Hire Req or
- Certified Information Systems Auditor (CISA) Upon Hire Req
- Ability to perform risk assessments and investigate cyber security incidents. Advanced
- Ability to understand vulnerabilities at a technical level. Advanced
- Knowledge of hardware and software networks data centers systems and cyber security related issues. Advanced
- Proficient in ethical hacking techniques. Proficient
- Strong critical thinking ability and investigative/problem solving skills. Advanced
ESSENTIAL FUNCTIONS:
20% Assists with daytoday support of security solutions.
20% Assists with engineering support and system administration of specialized cybersecurity solutions.
15% Solves complex problems and answers routine questions about the installation operation configuration and customization of cybersecurity software.
15% Identifies potential conflicts with the implementation of any cybersecurity solutions.
10% Answers routine questions about the installation operation configuration and customization of cybersecurity solutions.
10% Reviews and analyzes appropriate cybersecurity solution system logs for performance and functional anomalies.
10% Works with system design architects and project managers to provide security requirements.
Thanks & Regards
LAXMAN
KMM Technologies Inc.
Tel: (240) Email: