Network Security Engineer (Locals only)

Job details mentioned below

Title: Network Security Engineer

Location: Annapolis, MD

Duration: 12+ months contract

Client: Direct Client

Job Description:

Objectives/Responsibilities

The Contractor’s Resource (CR) will be responsible for leading, scheduling and overseeing the activities with other team members to resolve problems and requests in a timely and accurate fashion.

CR’s duties include:

• Configuration, installation, testing, deployment, performance monitoring, troubleshooting, and documentation of network security, utilizing industry best practices for security, disaster recovery and business continuity, change control, and client support

• Assisting in creation of robust network designs

• Act as the primary point of contact and lead security engineer for implementations and provide ongoing support and maintenance.

• Pro-actively identify organization’s requirements, and help design, and engineer implementations that best serve the needs.

• Perform project-based engineering, design, installation and troubleshooting of data security networks.

• Provide assessment, design and implementation services of data and secure networking environments.

• Develop comprehensive graphical and text-based design documentation and effectively manage the implementation process from design to acceptance.

• Assist internal groups through capacity planning, maintaining, monitoring and review of secure data communications networks.

• Lead migrations or assist in a team of engineers who will migrate traditional/legacy network security platforms to current/next generation technologies, and expose customers to the full life-cycle of defense in depth solutions.

• Assist network engineers in troubleshooting critical problems or threat remediation relating to network security products.

• Work with the engineering team to successfully implement configuration guidelines, change management, and standard operating procedures for secure network solutions.

• Lead, schedule, provide guidance and coordinate the activities with other team members to resolve end user problems in a timely and accurate fashion.

• Generate weekly status reports including project progress, key milestones, and tasks accomplished, etc. Host weekly status meetings/calls with team or on as needed basis.

REQUIRED SKILL:-

Education

• A Palo Alto Certified Network Security Engineer Certification (required)

• Industry leader’s networking certification of professional level (required)

• Cisco System Professional Level Certification (preferred)

• College-level degree in IT related field (required)

• At least 10 years of relevant IT work experience with at least 8 years of experience in networking/security field.

Skills/Experience

• Complex switching, routing, wireless, software defined networking - Cisco

• Firewalls - Cisco (ASA) and Palo Alto

• Network Access Control - Cisco Identity Services Engine (ISE), Access

• Control Server (ACS), ACLs

• Intrusion Detection and Prevention – Palo Alto, Cisco, scripting, regular expressions

• Content Filtering – Palo Alto, Trustwave

• Reverse Proxies, Load Balancing - A10, Cisco, F5

• Remote Access solutions – Cisco and Palo Alto VPNs, IPSEC, SSL

• Two-factor authentication solutions - (RSA)

• Authentication standards - (802.1x) in wired and wireless applications

• Scalable routing protocols - (EIGRP, BGP)

• Enterprise Data Center - Cisco SDN ACI

• Certificate Management – PKI

• Packet/Protocol Analysis – Opnet, Riverbed, Wireshark, taps

• Vulnerability Management – Nessus, NMAP, Windows, Unix, Linux OS

• Centralized Management – Panorama, Solarwinds