Network Security Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Perform engineering tasks in support of firewall and edge services.
• Maintain advanced security management for firewalls and perform regular audits of perimeter defenses
• Develop firewall and WAF configurations/policies to prevent new security issues.
• Implement network and edge solutions that empower teams to deliver secure infrastructure at scale.
• Identify and prioritize security vulnerabilities in our environment and helping to drive remediation.
• Making recommendations for necessary changes to our security controls to address emerging security threats.
• Respond to active threats to ensure appropriate security controls protect the environment with a defense in depth strategic approach
• Actively seeks out opportunities to improve key systems, does not need to be directed daily.
• Assists in definition, documentation, and evolution of best practices for the network security engineering program.
• Goes above and beyond basic requirements to support their own team and others.
• Helps to identify key gaps in security and tooling functionality that will drive significant improvement in network and cloud security.
• Has the ability to take an assignment, project or problem and implement a solution to completion.

Requirements:  

• Experience in network security or firewall administration.
• Experience with incident response.
• Web application firewall management experience.
• Understanding of security best-practices and how to implement them at an enterprise level.
• Basic coding skills – Terraform, Python, other scripting languages.
• Understanding of common Information Security concepts, practices, and procedures
• Understanding of vulnerability analysis, penetration testing, encryption technologies, intrusion detection, incident response
• Strong written and oral communication skills and the ability to prioritize work
• Strong aptitude for problem solving, math, and communication
• Strong organizational and interpersonal skill

Desired Experience or Skills:

• Bachelor’s degree in Cybersecurity, Information Systems, Computer Science, or related area of study
• Experience with cloud-native firewall solutions
• Experience with Cloudflare
• Experience with Palo Alto firewalls
• Experience with AWS or Azure public cloud platforms a plus
• Solid infrastructure/SRE/engineering skills
• SANS GIAC, CEH, CompTIA Security+, AWS or GCP security certifications.