Network Security Engineer

Network Security Engineer

13 Jun 2024
California, Santaana, 92701 Santaana USA

Network Security Engineer

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Job Description - Network Security Engineer

Senior Network Security Engineer
6 Month Contract to Hire
Remote to Start
Santa Ana

Summary


The Senior Network Security Engineer is responsible for providing operational security solutions that would enable the success of IT and business initiatives. Security Engineer interfaces with IT Groups across the company, client managers, business customers, third-parties, vendors, and auditors. The Security Engineer co-designs (along with Security Architect) and operationalizes security solutions that can be effectively delegated to Security Analysts or other support/operations functions. The scope of Security Engineers extends across technical and administrative controls that enable the protection and availability of business and IT systems. This is a senior-level Splunk position within a quickly growing Splunk team.

Essential Functions

  • Lead technical direction in designing and implementing security solutions for corporate technical infrastructure and business applications
  • Participate in all phases of project planning in security service support, including functional requirements, design specifications, testing and quality assurance, implementation and support
  • Lead technical engineering services to support and update existing security systems and work to automate processes related to security implementations, monitoring, and enforcement
  • Investigate, recommend, evaluate, deploy and integrate security tools and techniques to improve our ability to protect corporate assets and infrastructure
  • Participate in technical risk assessments and security exposure analyses of systems, networks and business applications
  • Evaluate and implement security devices such as firewalls, IDS, IPS, threat correlation tools, vulnerability management tools, encryption capabilities, etc.
  • Analyze network elements and designs to ensure secure and optimal system and network performance and cost effectiveness
  • Oversee the purchase, installation, and support of security devices
  • Responsible for assessing and managing information security risks to pre-existing current systems
  • Assist in the planning of large scale systems projects through vendor comparison and cost studies.
  • Monitor, report and resolve all security-related problems and discrepancies.
  • Participate as a member of the Information Security Incident Response Team
  • Interact with internal and external clients on security requirements, identify security process and develop strategies/solutions to security issues while maintaining tight security discipline
  • Develop test plans and implement rigorous testing prior to rollout of new systems into the production environment
  • Lead Cyber Security incident investigations

Job Complexities
  • Use skills as a seasoned, experienced professional with a full understanding of industry practices and established policies and procedures
  • Troubleshoot and guide others on a wide variety of complex problems and identify solutions within broad application and functional expertise
Skills:
Knowledge and Skills/Technology Used

Must Have

technologies
  • Palo Alto Firewalls
  • Cisco firewalls

Cloud Infrastructure: Azure/AWS

Cloud Security technologies
  • Prisma Cloud
  • Prisma Compute
  • xSOAR

Nice To have

CASB
  • Prisma SaaS
  • MCAS
  • The Senior Engineer will work with the Splunk admin and the security engineering team who would be required to interact with applications owners for application monitoring and with the SOC team for security monitoring
  • Strong experience with Splunk Programming Language (SPL), alerting methods and dashboard creation
  • Experience with Splunk Enterprise Security is required and experience with cloud environments is highly preferred
  • Requirements assist with data inputs and aid with the creation of Splunk search queries, dashboards, data models, and correlation searches
  • Experience in implementing Information Security technologies and/or processes required
  • Experience in product evaluation and managing vendor relationships required
  • Experience in defining Information Security strategy and integrating security technologies into corporate frameworks
  • Must have hands on working knowledge of UNIX/AIX, Microsoft NT/2000, firewall multi-layer design and implementation, router access list/packet filtering (CISCO), WANs, LANs, the Internet, Intranets, network protocols and network services (i.e., telnet, ftp, etc.), Intrusion detection systems, Virtual Private Network (VPN), two factor authentication

Supervision Received or Extended
  • May set objectives for project goals and other team members and monitor progress to achieve goals
  • Devise or modify department processes and procedures
  • Negotiate, persuade and gains consensus from cross functional team(s)
  • Errors may cause system/application outages that affect a large number of users or possibly multiple applications
  • May instruct, direct, and assign work to other team members, monitoring project status.
  • Use expertise of other team members and leverages a wide range of additional resources to explore/implement complex customized applications as a solution
  • May act as a team leader for projects with moderate budgets or of a short to intermediate duration

Job Details

  • ID
    JC15407156
  • State
  • City
  • Job type
    Contract
  • Salary
    N/A
  • Hiring Company
    Infinity Consulting Solutions
  • Date
    2021-06-12
  • Deadline
    2021-08-11
  • Category

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