Lead Network Security Specialist Infrastructure

Position Information:

Location: Binghamton, NY

Salary Range: $106,000 - $132,500

Schedule: Office - On Site

Job Summary

Serves as senior technical advisor responsible for implementing enterprise network security solutions using current and emerging technologies. Leads the engineering, installation, maintenance and administration of technical aspects for the OSG Infrastructure team supporting Critical Infrastructure. Responsible for translating business requirements into secure network solutions or process designs.

Key Responsibilities

Provide timely responses to all incidents, tasks and requests assigned to meet Service Level Agreements.

Work with internal clients, suppliers/contractors, project teams and other technical staff to identify, design and support technical solutions.

Design, plan and implement changes to the environment for improvements or projects

Provide maintenance of infrastructure technologies following the change management process

Lead the technical implementation plans in support of infrastructure technologies

Leads others to solve problems

Leads contractors to deliver services to projects and or operational duties as needed

Leads functional teams or projects as assigned

Lead the evaluation, selection, and testing of hardware and software products

Maintain regulatory compliance under NERC/CIP guidelines

Maintain high quality security controls surrounding the critical SCADA systems

Perform/coordinate special assignments from OSG Infrastructure Management

Provide 24x7 on call support

Provide professional and technical mentoring for team members Required Qualifications

Education and Experience Required:

MS Technical Related Degree with 5+ years' technical experience; OR

BS Technical Related Degree with 8+ years' technical experience; OR

AS Technical Related Degree with 12+ years' technical experience

Position requires a minimum of ten (10) years' experience working with infrastructure solutions in an enterprise environment

Position requires professional experience with more than one of the following areas: Data Center Operations, Disaster Recover/Business Continuity Planning & Execution, Security & Compliance Management, Infrastructure Operational Policies & Procedures, and/or Technical Project Coordination

Position requires Operational experience in an Enterprise Environment configuring and maintaining Cisco Routers/Switches/Firewalls such as Cisco Nexus 9K, Cisco Catalyst, Cisco ASR Routers, Cisco 4K Routers, Cisco ISE, Cisco Firepower, Cisco ASA

Position requires Operational experience in an Enterprise Environment configuring and maintaining Next generation firewalls such as Checkpoint and Palo Alto

Skills/ Abilities:

Expert within network infrastructure, operations & network security

Proficient in professional standards and trends within area of expertise

Proficient in deploying Checkpoint, Palo Alto, Cisco ASA firewalls along with implementing VPN's

Knowledge of multiple security technologies, to include network security, NAC, Micro segmentation, network security architecture

Implementing security technologies such as SAML and PKI Infrastructure

Network Access Control systems in a large enterprise

Experience with authentication systems such as RADIUS, TACACS+, SSO, LDAP Experience planning, researching, and developing security policies, standards, and procedures

Experience with architecting in cloud environments (AWS, Azure, and GCP)

SD-WAN and other tunneling/encryption transport technologies

Network Security Automation and DevOps

Strong Routing and Switching experience (BGP, OSPF, VPC, VXLAN, vain traffic engineering, Multicast, etc. Preferred Qualifications

Desired Skills/ Abilities:

Experience with packet capture software such as Wireshark, WinDump, tcpdump, etc.

Experience with installing and configuring Citrix Netscalers in an Enterprise High Availability environment

Experience with installing and configuring Cisco ISE in a distributed deployment with multiple personas

Experience with Zero Trust Architecture

Experience working in a regulated environment

NERC/CIP experience a plus

Experience with Cisco Nexus Dashboard Fabric Controller (Formerly DCNM)

Experience using Solarwinds Orion platform suite of tools Competencies

Growth & Continuous Improvement

Initiative & Change

Focused on Results

Customer Centric (internal and/or external)

Communication

Collaboration

Leadership (people managers/leaders)

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Company:

NY STATE ELECTRIC & GAS CORP

Mobility Information

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Avangrid employees may be assigned a system emergency role and in the event of a system emergency, may be required to work outside of their regular schedule/job duties. This is applicable to employees that will work in Connecticut, Maine, Massachusetts, and New York within Avangrid Network and Corporate functions. This does not include those that will work for Avangrid Power.

Avangrid employees may also be assigned a NERC Reliability Standards compliance role supporting Critical Infrastructure Protection (CIP) and/or Operations and Planning (O&P) responsibilities. This is applicable to employees that will work in electric transmission, operations, and cyber security business areas in Connecticut, Maine, Massachusetts, and New York within Avangrid Network and Corporate business areas. NERC Reliability Standards compliance roles and responsibilities may include additional access protections, training, audit engagement, and required evidence retention, and will be communicated by the employee's management.

Job Posting End Date:

February-9-2026