Network Security Engineer – Visibility & Telemetry

Title: Network Security Engineer – Visibility & Telemetry
Location: Brooklyn Park, MN (Hybrid)
Job Type: Contract (6 months)
Compensation: $40.00 - $56.00 per hour (W2)
Industry: Retail

Key Skills: 
Linux administration, configuration management/orchestration (Ansible/Terraform), scripting (Python/Bash)

About the Role
Our client, a leading Fortune 50 U.S. retailer recognized globally for its innovation, scale, and guest-centric culture, is expanding its Cyber Fusion capabilities. We are seeking a Network Security Engineer to support the development, reliability, and optimization of enterprise-wide network visibility and security telemetry.

This role sits within a rapidly evolving cybersecurity organization that values creative problem-solving, engineering excellence, and modern approaches to defending a complex global network. You will collaborate closely with network engineering teams and cybersecurity stakeholders to ensure visibility requirements are met and continuously improved. If you thrive in an environment where innovation and learning happen daily, this is a strong match.

• Evaluate the current configuration management and orchestration environment, identifying gaps, risks, and opportunities for modernization.
• Architect and implement a scalable, secure, and resilient visibility and telemetry solution from design through deployment.
• Lead end-to-end delivery of complex NSM engineering workstreams with minimal direction.
• Improve reliability, performance, and coverage across multiple sensor and visibility components, contributing to standards, patterns, and best practices.
• Collaborate with Network Engineering and Cybersecurity teams to drive solutions and clearly communicate technical tradeoffs.
• Diagnose technical issues across the system, application, and network layers.
• Communicate engineering solutions through high-quality documentation, diagrams, and knowledge sharing.

• 5+ years working in network engineering or network visibility architecture/design
• Strong experience administering Linux systems (RHEL/CentOS, Ubuntu, or equivalent)
• Proven experience designing and operating configuration management/orchestration tools (e.g., Ansible, Salt, Puppet, Chef, Terraform)
• Demonstrated ability to analyze and optimize system capacity, performance, and operational health
• Ability to troubleshoot across system, application, and network layers
• Experience in production environments with disciplined operational/change control
• Solid understanding of TCP/IP, routing protocols, VLANs, NAT, DNS, DHCP, and firewall concepts
• Scripting experience (Python, Bash, or similar) for automation and tooling
• Ability to document and communicate engineering solutions through high- and low-level diagrams

• Experience tuning/optimizing tools such as Security Onion, Zeek, Suricata, Snort
• Experience developing monitoring or testing frameworks
• Proficiency with observability platforms such as Kibana, Splunk, or Graylog
• Experience with Linux, Docker, and Git
• Hands-on experience with packet analysis tools (Wireshark, tcpdump, etc.)

Equal Opportunity Statement
As an equal opportunity employer, Dahl Consulting welcomes candidates of all backgrounds and experiences to apply. If this position sounds like the right opportunity for you, we encourage you to take the next step and connect with us. We look forward to meeting you!

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