Network security engineer

Role: Network security engineer

Duration: 6+ Months

Location: Halifax, CA (Remote)

The day-to-day responsibilities include:

1. Analyze business requirements and provide recommendations for building scalable solutions to meet security functional and non-functional requirements.
2. Build and operationalize solutions to deploy and protect the network. Define and configure security policies throughout the various network boundaries.
3. Create and maintain documentation related to network solutions; this may include conceptual, logical, and physical diagrams; new environment design documents; write-ups on technical capabilities and solution configurations.
4. Perform continuous security policy analysis to ensure effectiveness of security defenses.
5. Develop analytics/Analyze data to improve situational awareness and make informed decisions.
6. Assist with the development and operation of both infrastructure-as-code as well as manual change tracking processes.
7. Manage small to medium security enhancement and remediation projects.
8. Engage with stakeholders on business impacts, identify root cause via data analysis and experimentation, and implement solutions to achieve desired business outcomes securely.

Desired skills:

1. Experience with Palo Alto firewall and/or SaSE.
2. Experience troubleshooting website connectivity issues and/or core network connectivity issues.
3. Experience conducting technical security assessments and implementing policy changes to remediate gaps.
4. Experience conducting cybersecurity incident investigations and remediating identified policy gaps.
5. Experience with Github Actions utilized for configuration-as-code/infrastructure-as-code.
6. Experience performing network traffic analysis via Splunk.

Background should include:

1. Technical experience with network solutions; either infrastructure or security related.
2. Understanding of network traffic with security controls in mind.
3. Understanding of network technology.
4. Foundational knowledge of malware operation and indicators of threat, current threat landscape (threat actors, APT, cyber-crime, etc).
5. Foundational knowledge of network security architecture best practices.
6. Strong critical thinking and problem-solving abilities.
7. Ability to prioritize and execute with minimal direction or oversight.