Job details mentioned below
Title: Network Security Engineer
Location: Annapolis, MD
Duration: 12+ months contract
Client: Direct Client
Job Description:
Objectives/Responsibilities
The Contractor’s Resource (CR) will be responsible for leading, scheduling and overseeing the activities with other team members to resolve problems and requests in a timely and accurate fashion.
CR’s duties include:
- Configuration, installation, testing, deployment, performance monitoring, troubleshooting, and documentation of network security, utilizing industry best practices for security, disaster recovery and business continuity, change control, and client support
- Assisting in creation of robust network designs
- Act as the primary point of contact and lead security engineer for implementations and provide ongoing support and maintenance.
- Pro-actively identify organization’s requirements, and help design, and engineer implementations that best serve the needs.
- Perform project-based engineering, design, installation and troubleshooting of data security networks.
- Provide assessment, design and implementation services of data and secure networking environments.
- Develop comprehensive graphical and text-based design documentation and effectively manage the implementation process from design to acceptance.
- Assist internal groups through capacity planning, maintaining, monitoring and review of secure data communications networks.
- Lead migrations or assist in a team of engineers who will migrate traditional/legacy network security platforms to current/next generation technologies, and expose customers to the full life-cycle of defense in depth solutions.
- Assist network engineers in troubleshooting critical problems or threat remediation relating to network security products.
- Work with the engineering team to successfully implement configuration guidelines, change management, and standard operating procedures for secure network solutions.
- Lead, schedule, provide guidance and coordinate the activities with other team members to resolve end user problems in a timely and accurate fashion.
- Generate weekly status reports including project progress, key milestones, and tasks accomplished, etc. Host weekly status meetings/calls with team or on as needed basis.
REQUIRED SKILL:-
Education
- A Palo Alto Certified Network Security Engineer Certification (required)
- Industry leader’s networking certification of professional level (required)
- Cisco System Professional Level Certification (preferred)
- College-level degree in IT related field (required)
- At least 10 years of relevant IT work experience with at least 8 years of experience in networking/security field.
Skills/Experience
- Complex switching, routing, wireless, software defined networking - Cisco
- Firewalls - Cisco (ASA) and Palo Alto
- Network Access Control - Cisco Identity Services Engine (ISE), Access
- Control Server (ACS), ACLs
- Intrusion Detection and Prevention – Palo Alto, Cisco, scripting, regular expressions
- Content Filtering – Palo Alto, Trustwave
- Reverse Proxies, Load Balancing - A10, Cisco, F5
- Remote Access solutions – Cisco and Palo Alto VPNs, IPSEC, SSL
- Two-factor authentication solutions - (RSA)
- Authentication standards - (802.1x) in wired and wireless applications
- Scalable routing protocols - (EIGRP, BGP)
- Enterprise Data Center - Cisco SDN ACI
- Certificate Management – PKI
- Packet/Protocol Analysis – Opnet, Riverbed, Wireshark, taps
- Vulnerability Management – Nessus, NMAP, Windows, Unix, Linux OS
- Centralized Management – Panorama, Solarwinds