Overview:
TekWissen is a global workforce management provider headquartered in Ann Arbor Michigan that offers strategic talent solutions to our clients worldwide. Our client is an American multinational information technology services and consulting company and is a leading provider of information technology consulting and business process outsourcing services dedicated helping the worlds leading companies build stronger businesses.
Job Title: Network Security Engineer
Work Location: Dallas TX
Job Type: Contract
Work Type: Hybrid
Duration: 12 Months
Job Summary:
- We are seeking a Network Security Engineer with 3 to 5 years of experience to join our team.
- This role requires a proactive individual who can manage and optimize our network infrastructure ensuring seamless integration and performance.
Required Skills:
- Firewall (Palo Alto)
- Switching (Cisco or Meraki)
- Routing (Cisco or Meraki)
Responsibilities:
- Install configure and manage a highly available and scalable datacenter and cloud networks.
- Design implement and maintain robust firewall infrastructure to protect the organization from external and internal threats.
- Monitor firewall performance and manage configuration changes to ensure the security and stability of the network.
- EOSL projects for datacenter switches and firewalls.
- Configure and manage Azure networking components such as Virtual Network Load Balancer ExpressRoute VPN Gateway and NSG.
- Manage and configure firewalls (e.g. Cisco Palo Alto Fortinet) for optimal performance and security.
- Transforms the organization by leveraging and enabling automation orchestration continuous integration and continuous delivery (CI/CD).
- Serves as an advocate for business stakeholders into IT and helps evangelize the role of network engineering technology back to the business
- Presents innovate forward thinking concepts and technology to improve business processes
- Contributes to our positive teamoriented culture by developing and maintaining cooperative relationships facilitating the resolution of conflicts and accepting and providing constructive feedback
Qualifications Education & Prior Job Experience:
- Bachelors degree in Computer Science Computer Engineering Technology Information Systems (CIS/MIS) Engineering or related technical discipline or equivalent experience/training
- 5 years of experience in a highly technical professional environment
- 5 years of experience in a Network environment working with route switch firewalls VPN IDS/IPS
- 2 years of experience in Microsoft Azure or AWS/Oracle/IBM networking technologies.
- Senior Level experience with Data Center infrastructure solutions: VPN Cisco (Route and Switch) Palo Alto firewalls.
Preferred Qualifications:
- Masters degree in Computer Science Computer Engineering Technology Information Systems (CIS/MIS) Engineering or related technical discipline or equivalent experience/training
- Airline Industry experience
Skills Licenses & Certifications:
- CCNP Security DC Routing Switching CCIE PCNSE (Palo Alto)
- Microsoft Certified: Azure Administrator Associate or Microsoft Certified: Azure Solutions Architect Expert is desired.
- Proven ability to build cultivate and promote strong relationships with internal customers at all levels of the organization as well as with IT counterparts business partners and external groups.
- Ability to deploy and execute datacenter and cloud network technologies; firewall technologies intrusion detection/prevention microsegmentation and software defined network and software defined WAN.
- Hands on experience with Palo Alto firewalls and Nexus switches.
- Hands on experience in Cloud Networking for Azure and AWS.
- Extensive experience with Data Center infrastructure solutions: Cisco (Route and Switch) Palo Alto (FW IDS/IPS functions) Cisco VPN and Zscaler VPN
- Extensive experience with programming/scripting languages and frameworks in support of automation such as Python or Ansible
- Ability to design Ansible networking playbooks (and/or via Python scripts REST API) for Palo Alto Zsclaer Cisco IOS/IOSXE/NXOS
- Have good handson knowledge on Panorama and its template hierarchy.
- Have a comprehensive knowledge on routing protocol BGP (community strings route maps route filters. attributes).
- Strong experience in building site to site VPN tunnels for both Cisco and Palo Altos platform.
- Strong communication skills and ability to work with business to deliver project timelines.
- Good with tools like Power BI or be able to create dashboards for projects.
- Good in IAC for Cloud and Datacenter deployments.
TekWissen Group is an equal opportunity employer supporting workforce diversity.