Network Security Engineer( Only Locals to Maryland)

Job Title: Network Security Engineer

Duration: 12 Months

Location: Annapolis, MD

Responsibilities Will Include:

• Pro-actively identifying organization requirements, and helping to design, and engineer implementations that best serve the needs.
• Performing project-based engineering, design, installation and troubleshooting of data security networks.
• Providing assessment, design and implementation services of data and secure networking environments.
• Developing comprehensive graphical and text-based design documentation and effectively managing the implementation process from design to acceptance.
• Assisting internal groups through capacity planning, maintaining, monitoring and review of secure data communications networks.
• Leading migrations or assisting 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.
• Assisting network engineers in troubleshooting critical problems or threat remediation relating to network security products.
• Working with the engineering team to successfully implement configuration guidelines, change management, and standard operating procedures for secure network solutions.
• Leading, scheduling, providing guidance and coordinating the activities with other team members to resolve end user problems in a timely and accurate fashion.
• Generating weekly status reports including project progress, key milestones, and tasks accomplished.
• Hosting weekly status meetings/calls with team or on as needed basis

Educational Qualifications:

• Associate degree.
• Active certifications as follows:
  • Palo Alto Networks Certified Network Security Administrator (PCNSA) Certification or Palo Alto Networks Network Security Professional Certification.
  • Cisco Certified Network Associate (CCNA) Enterprise or (CCNA) Security Certification
• Ten (10) years of CONUS technical experience in IT networking and network security.
• Associate's degree in an Information Technology (IT) related field.
• Certifications that are currently active or expired within three (3) years of proposal submission as follows:
  • Palo Alto Networks Certified Network Security Engineer (PCNSE) Certification OR
  • Palo Alto Networks Next-Generation Firewall Engineer Certification or Palo Alto Networks Network Security Analyst Certification.
  • Cisco Certified Network Professional (CCNP) Enterprise or (CCNP) Security Certification.

Skills, Experience, & Capabilities:

• Five (5) years of experience with:
  • Palo Alto Networks next generation firewall services.
  • Intrusion Detection and Prevention with Palo Alto networks.
  • Content Filtering Palo Alto networks.
  • Virtual Private Networks using Palo Alto network systems.
  • Data Loss Prevention
  • TLS/SSL Inspection
• Four (4) years of experience in Complex switching, routing, wireless with Cisco Systems.
• Three (3) years of experience in Reverse Proxies, Load Balancing with A10 networks.
• Two (2) years of experience in Network Access Control - Cisco Identity Services Engine
• (ISE), Free Radius, and Access Control Lists (ACLs).
• General experience with the following:

• Implementing multifactor authentication solutions with Microsoft.
• Cloud based virtual networking and security services
• Authentication standards - (802.1x) in wired and wireless applications.
• Scalable routing protocols Enhance Interior Gateway Routing Protocol (EIGRP),
• Open Shortest Path Fist (OSPF), and Border Gateway Protocol (BGP).
• Enterprise Data Center implementing Micro segmentation.
• Certificate Management, Public Key Infrastructure (PKI).
• Vulnerability management using Nessus, NMAP, Windows, Unix, and Linux OS
• Packet/Protocol Analysis using Opnet, Riverbed, Wireshark, and taps.
• Centralized Management using Panorama, SolarWinds
• Major server and desktop operating systems and utilities

• Ability to:

• To work independently, troubleshoot and provide mentoring to junior associates.
• Communicate effectively when providing presentations.
• Produce technical documents (diagrams, design documents, project plans and
• schedules, and user instructions) as required.