Role : Network security engineer
Location : Halifax, CA (Remote)
Type : Contract
The day-to-day is :
- Analyze business requirements and provide recommendations for building scalable solutions to meet security functional and non-functional requirements
- Build and operationalize solutions to deploy and protect the network. Define and configure security policies throughout the various network boundaries
- 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; etc.
- Perform continuous security policy analysis to ensure effectiveness of security defenses.
- Develop analytics / Analyze data to improve situational awareness and make informed decisions.
- Assist with the development and operation of both infrastructure-as-code as well as manual change tracking processes
- Manage small to medium security enhancement and remediation projects.
- Engage with stakeholders on business impacts, identify root cause via data analysis and experimentation, and implement solutions to achieve desired business outcomes securely
Their background should include :
- Technical experience with network solutions; either infrastructure or security related.
- Understanding of network traffic with security controls in mind.
- Understanding of network technology.
- Foundational knowledge of malware operation and indicators or threat, current threat landscape (threat actors, APT, cyber-crime, etc)
- Foundational knowledge of network security architecture best practices
- Strong critical thinking and problem-solving abilities.
- Ability to prioritize and execute with minimal direction or oversight.
Desired skills :
- Experience with Palo Alto firewall and / or SaSE
- Experience troubleshooting website connectivity issues and / ore network connectivity issues
- Experience conducting technical security assessments and implementing policy changes to remediate gaps
- Experience conducting cybersecurity incident investigations and remediating identified policy gaps
- Experience with Github Actions utilized for configuration-as-code / infrastructure-as-code
- Experience performing network traffic analysis via Splunk
2 days ago