Security Engineer

Job Description

Job Title: Security Engineer

Location: 100% Remote

Duration: 6 months Contract To Hire

About the Position

Company X is seeking an exceptional Security Engineer to join its IT Security Team in our New York office. This person will join a distributed, highly collaborative team that is responsible for the setup and maintenance of security equipment for a global network. The successful candidate will demonstrate strong technical skills and will have the technical credibility to be a participant in the architecture, design, and implementation of complex security solutions including interconnectivity with third party partners and market data providers and DMZ configuration and hardening. In addition to exceptional technical skills, the ideal candidate will demonstrate an ability to provide the highest level of support for troubleshooting incidents. Experience with updating problem records in an incident tracking system is needed and he or she must be comfortable interacting with various individuals or in an ever-changing environment.

This person will help to work on projects where close coordination and communication is required with other areas such as the networks, database management, system services, and application development organizations. The ideal candidate will have at least five years of hands on technical experience with firewall design and implementation with physical and\or virtual Next Generation firewalls and will have at least three years of experience in working with cloud implementations. Experience with automation technologies such as Ansible Tower would also be helpful.

Specific Responsibilities:

Operational management of security platforms including, but not limited to, firewalls, load balancers, web proxies, certificates, endpoint security technologies.

Documentation and implementation of firewall policy and rule changes.

Manage physical equipment such as the rack, stack and installation of security equipment in any company location including enterprise data centers

Assist in supporting the security platforms protecting our enterprise systems and environment

Assist and train team members in the use of cloud security tools and the resolution of security issues

Provide technical support for complex, medium to high risk systems problems

Instill cooperation and/or resolve problems on security related activities that span other areas such as network, database management, applications development, and other systems related areas

Implement automated approach to delivering key security management processes

Communicate security risks and solutions to business partners, platform & product teams

Serve as a project lead, or a project member, on projects of varying size and complexity and risk.

Develop procedures for automating security tasks during build and deployment

Assist in design documentation, project plan development and implementation of new security platforms and technologies.

Skills & Experience Required

Bachelor’s degree with a degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, EE or comparable discipline preferred

Five plus years of hands on firewall design, implementation, and change management experience with physical and\or virtual Next Generation firewalls.

Three plus years of hands on experience working with cloud implementations

Extensive knowledge with relevant experience in at least five of the following categories:

Third party and VPN connectivity architecture and design

DMZ network segmentation design best practices

Intrusion Detection/Prevention System tuning

Security hardening and configuration techniques

Application firewall design

Antivirus / Endpoint protection design and implementation

Patching and vulnerability remediation management

Web Proxy architecture / design

Cloud (IaaS, PaaS, and SaaS) hosted security solutions

PKI and certificate management concepts

Preferred security certifications:

PCNSA

Microsoft Azure security Engineer Associate

CISSP

GSEC

GCIH

GMON

Sufficient level of knowledge in other technical areas such as database management and networking so incumbent can represent his/her area on major cross functional problems that span other areas

Broad knowledge of monitoring tools

Diagramming using Visio or equivalent tools