Network Security Engineer

A Senior Network Security Engineer job is available with our client, a multinational financial firm, with headquarters in NYC. This is a hybrid, contract role, based in Miami, FL.

Client has a dedicated team that works across the firm to properly balance security with convenience, believing that securing the firm requires a total team effort. Since Cybersecurity is 75% about people and process and 25% about technology, the team is dedicated to creating business value through security solutions. User training/awareness programs, development of governance models, transparent metrics, industry leading technologies and innovative approaches are part of clients' world class information risk and security.

DAY-TO-DAY RESPONSIBILITIES:

As a Senior Network Security Engineer, you will provide leadership and hands-on expertise for a diverse set of network security projects including but not limited to Cloud, Firewall, WAF and Web proxies.

Lead and support information security projects by researching, documenting, and assisting with the implementation of network security products.

Provide engineering and operational support for network security products and services (new deployments, hardware refresh/upgrades, migrations and feature implementation).

Security policy administration on various network security products.

Work closely with the architecture teams to evaluate the security readiness of new features and functionalities in network security products.

Improve and implement security hardening processes for overall infrastructure security, patch management and documentation.

Mentor and guide other teams in the organization on network security best practices, security vulnerabilities and implementation/enforcement of the compensating controls.

Firewall & Network Security rule design and administration across multiple platforms (Cloud / AWS).

Firewalling / ACLs (Traditional Segmentation).

Zero Trust Network Policy (Micro Firewall & Network Security rule design and administration across multiple platforms.

Network traffic flow analysis utilizing a SIEM platform (Splunk).

THE SKILLS YOU NEED TO GET THE ROLE:

5+ years in a hands-on technical experience in implementing Network Security products like Firewall, Cloud / onsite web proxies and DDoS mitigation solutions.

Knowledge of firewalls (Palo Alto FW) preferred.

Cloud Security - AWS preferred.

Possess a strong understanding of security operations concepts such as perimeter defense, BYOD management, data loss protection, insider threat, kill-chain analysis, risk assessment and security metrics.

Have a strong understanding of network protocols.

Follows Information Security best practices.

Have the desire to learn new technologies, share best practices, and contribute to the broader shared knowledge of a global infrastructure and security team.

An ability to self-organize, prioritize activities independently, create documentation and reporting.

Prior experience Interfacing with business and technology stakeholders.

Experience managing stakeholder expectations in the delivery of projects.

Enables creative solutions by stimulating ideas through discussion and collaboration.

An ability to manage uncertainty well – able to assess and act with good enough but imperfect or incomplete information.

Have strong written and oral communication skills with the ability to explain technical ideas to non-technical individuals at any level.