Network/Security Engineer (Remote)

• Location: Madison, Wisconsin
• Type: Contract
• Job #3070

Our Partner is hiring a Security/Network Engineer.   Their flexible work environment presents a unique security opportunity to work with a team and organization that presents endless potential to evaluate, test, and deploy secure solutions across their global organization. You will work closely with Engineering and Application counterparts to implement Network and Security polices to support production needs of the Business.  This Engineer is responsible for implementing network and security best practices with regard to network, infrastructure and application requirements for on premises and cloud deployments. The Security / Engineer will help establish and implement solutions to difficult engineering and security problems.  The Security / Engineer will mature enterprise security solutions to meet business goals and support global IT counterparts.  The role identifies assets and assess risks, threats and vulnerabilities in accordance with accepted business and regulations to ensure security design integrity, availability, and confidentiality compliance.

What you’ll do:

Service Delivery – 40%

• Provide leadership to deploy, monitor, test and tune network security devices and systems to provide optimal security and performance.
• Support and deploy network routing and switching hardware and software in accordance with established network policies.
• Design and deploy state-of-art technology to meet the business needs and interface with business units regarding technical planning and network issues.
• In coordination with the Architects, develop security migrations plans, research solutions to security technical issues, and provide security technical leadership and guidance during the engineering design and build phase.
• Provide automation scripts that help identifies issues on a regular basis.
• Utilize best practices and risk tolerances frameworks.
• Perform system testing and recommend remediation efforts for system vulnerabilities.

Operational Delivery – 30%

• Monitor network and security controls, audit devices and detect for possible security incidents.
• Monitor for network performance, potential threats, identification of trends, and assessment of system vulnerabilities and performance.
• Working with the Architect investigate current cyber security threats and provide IT leadership with timely communication updates.
• Working with the Architect assist with infrastructure and application security architecture design and implement solutions to difficult engineering and security problems.
• Drive the use of security tools to analyze, assess, and prioritize resolution based on the potential impact.
• Working with the Architect assist in the develop enterprise security solutions to meet business goals and support IT counterparts around the globe.
• Work with teammates and the larger security community to maintain and improve security tools that align and facilitate modern security best practices.
• Enforce all company policies and procedures.

Organizational Growth – 30%

• Along with the Architect plan, research, design, and implement elements of information security hardware and software technologies.
• Research, recommend and develop security and risk mitigation solutions
• Prepare documentation, including department policies and procedures, business notifications, and security alerts.

What you’ll bring:

• FirePower: 2+ years’ experience, good troubleshooting skills, day to day work creating DMZ’s, troubleshooting failover, pre-config of device for lifecycle.
• FMC: 2+ years’ experience, edit rulesets, troubleshoot devices and FMC errors/logs
• AnyConnect: 2+ years’ experience, basic troubleshooting
• ISE: 2+ years of experience, day to day maintenance  
• ASA – VPN: 2+ years’ experience, basic troubleshooting of AnyConnect and client VPN issues
• Palo Alto firewalls: 3+ years’ experience (firewalls and Panorama), firewall configuration as well as rule base and updates of software

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