Network Security Engineer

No C2C - Full Time Employee

Reston, VA

Job Role:

Network Security Engineer with experience in Cisco, Fortigate and Juniper

Reports To:

Manager of Network Security

Department:

Security Department

Overall Objective:

The Network Security Engineer is responsible for the configuration, monitoring, management, and troubleshooting of firewalls. They will act as liaison with local region network engineering and technical support groups to assist and lead (where applicable) in the reviewing, design and deployment of new services, review existing services and migration of services/systems. Day to day duties will be assigned by monitoring of the Remedy ticket queue. All work must be completed following client's Security policies and payment industry standards as well as the promotion of security best practices, to allow client's business to operate and communicate in a secure solution.

Responsibilities:

Essential responsibilities include:

• Function as an internal consulting resource on network security issues specifically firewall technologies. Such as Next Generation Firewall (NGFW), Unified Threat Management (UTM): Cisco ASA, Fortinet and Juniper SRX.
• Familiar with implementing firewall security policies.
• Day to day responsibilities to include standard change control, troubleshooting issues, configuration, monitoring, and management of firewalls in conjunction with client's Security/Network engineers and vendor-provided support.
• Monitor ticket queue application for Firewall Operations trouble tickets for incidents and creation of change requests.
• Performs recurring maintenance activities such as device upgrades and patches with primary focus firewalls and on perimeter devices.
• Be the lead technical resource on projects requiring firewall support including end of life hardware replacement, customer and migrations and buildout of new PoPs.
• Participate in the Network Security on-call rota to ensure that out of hours incidents are responded to in a timely manner.
• Produce technical process documentation for use within the department.
• Provide training and knowledge sharing with the rest of the department where required.
• Be the focal engineer with the Network Security team for the Financial Services Division (FSD)
• Managing key relationships with security partners and other internal departments.
• Governing certification, adherence and compliance to all security requirements as required by client.
• Understand and keep up to date with the latest security issues.
• Sponsorship and execution of technology & security advancements.
• Ensuring production systems are secure, up to date and vulnerabilities managed in a timely and effective manner.
• In-depth operational and technical knowledge of cybersecurity concepts including, but not limited to Security, Information, and Event Monitoring (SIEM) tools
• Working closely with the Director, Security Engineering and other team members on various projects in the Global IT Security department and escalating security issues to the relevant senior members
• IPS/IDS technologies; Signature and pattern-based intrusion detection and prevention systems: Sourcefire and Fortinet.
• VPN Technologies; IPSEC client & L2L tunnel, SSL client and clientless connectivity.
• Follows documented processes, procedures and policies and maintains documentation related to work area and routinely updates architecture diagrams using Visio.
• Some travel to client sites, conferences, and other events may be necessary.

Experience:

• Experience in creating policies in and managing Cisco Identity Services Engine (ISE).
• Hands on experience in computer routing and networking, especially with firewall technologies.
• Hands on experience with multi-context firewall implementation (Cisco, Fortigate and Juniper).
• Must have networking TCP/IP routing protocol experience.
• Experience analyzing and troubleshooting Access Control Lists (ACLs) and VPN tunnels on firewalls.
• Experience with firewalls, remote access VPN implementation, troubleshooting, and problem resolution is desired.
• Experience with Cisco ACS, ISE.
• Security and networking certifications from organizations such as Cisco, Fortigate and/or Juniper.

Benefits:

SES hires W2 benefitted and non-benefitted consultants. Our contract employee benefits include group medical dental vision life LT and ST disability insurance, 21 days of accrued paid time off, 401k, tuition reimbursement, performance bonuses, paid overtime, and more. Due to corporate regulations, we cannot work with outside companies on this opening; only direct, individual candidates representing themselves to SES, please.

About SES Systems Engineering Services Corporation:

SESC was founded in 1989, is a leading provider of technology solutions to Fortune 1000 companies and government organizations. Specializing in Accelerated Development (agile application development, mobile, systems integration, project and program management), Architecture (SOA, microservices, cloud), Data (analytics, DW, BI, big data), Testing (test architecture, manual, automation, data), Cyber Security (SSO, mobile, IAM) and DevOps (roadmap creation, assessments, CICD, tool evaluation, implementation), Employer is guided by a corporate mission to provide valuable solutions to our client s technology needs through responsive quality services.

Please contact me to discuss the details of this position further.

*Please forward resume directly to for immediate consideration - rstarinieri @ sesc .com

I look forward to speaking with you soon!

Robin Starinieri

Director of Recruiting

Systems Engineering Services