To plan, supervise and direct the engineering functions within the Cybersecurity Technology Engineering (CTE) team. Collaborate with managers within the CTE to define the strategic vision for the team. Provide leadership, guidance, and technical guidance to ensure appropriate security protocols are leveraged to protect NFCU's brand, data, and IT assets from cyber-based threats.
Responsibilities- Serve as the technical manager for firewalls, intrusion prevention systems, network access controls and microsegmentation
- Review and approve production change requests
- Manage a team of about 15 network security engineers
- Provide vision for the future direction of the Cybersecurity posture of the enterprise
- Manage the deployment of new infrastructure and migration from legacy infrastructure
- Manage the daily operations for firewalls, network access controls, and intrusion prevention systems
- Ensure a standardized approach to network security policy management
- Act as an escalation source for on-call engineers
- Oversee the assessment and review of current technology to identify key risk areas to ensure an adequate level of control is in place to address risks
- Oversee vulnerability and threat assessments, mitigation and reporting activities
- Ensure that work quality, work methods, procedures, processes, and production statistics meet business goals and standards of member service
- Oversee the development of technical documentation
- Act as a liaison for internal and external auditors
- Ability to brief senior leadership on the team’s activities and incident response
- Act as the hiring authority for employees and contractors
- Perform other duties as assigned
- Minimum of 5 years of experience in a network engineering or cybersecurity engineering position (10 years preferred)
- Served as a lead engineer or a manager on a network security team
- Experience with a common network security tool, such as firewalls, IPS/IDS, and/or ISE
- Experience with change control procedures
- Expert knowledge of cyber/information security systems engineering lifecycle
- Experience managing multiple priorities independently and/or in a team environment to achieve goals
- Ability to work with all levels of staff, management, stakeholders, vendors
- Advanced skill interacting with staff, management, vendors and members diplomatically and tactfully
- Advanced analytical thinking skills include summarizing information and clearly identifying key elements, patterns, results or relationships
- Advanced research, analytical and problem-solving skills
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills
Desired Qualifications
- Experience in managing a cybersecurity team for a medium to large size organization
Understanding of how to migrate layer 4 security policies to layer 7 policies
- Experience in firewall rule remediation with the use of Firemon or similar application
- GIAC, CEH, CISSP, Security+, or related Information Security certifications
- Professional Certification in one of the following- CCNP, CISSP, CCIE, PCNSE
- Experience in leading successful IT projects
- Demonstrated proficiency in establishing processes and procedures
Additional Information
Hours:
- Monday - Friday, 8:00AM - 4:30PM
Location:
- 820 Follin Lane, Vienna, VA 22180
- 5510 Heritage Oaks Drive, Pensacola, FL 32526
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Skills Required
- At least 5 years of experience in network engineering or cybersecurity engineering
- Experience serving as a lead engineer or manager on a network security team
- Experience with firewalls, IPS/IDS, ISE, or comparable network security tools
- Experience with change control procedures
- Expert knowledge of the cybersecurity or information security systems engineering lifecycle
- Ability to manage multiple priorities independently and within a team
- Ability to work diplomatically with staff, management, stakeholders, vendors, and members
- Advanced analytical, research, and problem-solving skills
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills
- Experience managing a cybersecurity team in a medium- to large-sized organization
- Understanding of migrating Layer 4 security policies to Layer 7 policies
- Experience with firewall rule remediation using FireMon or a similar application
- GIAC, CEH, CISSP, Security+, or related information security certification
- CCNP, CISSP, CCIE, PCNSE, or related professional certification
- Experience leading successful IT projects
- Proficiency in establishing processes and procedures
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