Network Security Engineer in Plano, TX ( F2F interview)

Amtex Systems Inc is an information technology and talent solutions company offering talent and BI consulting to the companies in US for over 25 years.

Our solutions are designed to fill resource gaps, by providing the right candidates who deliver value to the organization. Our propensity to nurture and build strong relationships with our clients helps us better understand their business demands and gives us the ability to provide services that are on time and rise above the rest.

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Network Security Engineer

6+ month contract

Plano, TX (Hybrid 3 days a week)

If you are a great developer, with passion for security and technology, come join the client’s R&D team of Software Engineers and take part in defining and driving the future world-wide market leading product suite consisting of: Network Access Control, Endpoint Compliance, Mobile Control, and Intrusion Prevention.

Applications range from Client / Server applications to Web apps for a Network Access Control solution, running on both Windows and Linux systems.

Responsibilities:

• Duties involve analyzing customer escalation issues and to work with cross-functional teams (Development Engineering, Customer support and Account teams) to ensure smooth flow of information in resolving critical customer issues
• Provide technical leadership on the team as needed
• Development of new security features and maintenance of existing ones
• Handle the resolution of technical issues by doing the following:
• Analyze the available data to identify and narrow down root cause
• Investigate the technical issue
• Attempt or drive reproduction of customer issue in house
• Describe in detail the issue to support engineers or customers
• Identify and develop the software code changes to resolve it.
• Analyze and report defects on software to improve conformance, stability and supportability
• Understand customer network architecture and design and accordingly provide alternative solutions when applicable to achieve greater stability or performance.  
• Provide technical leadership to internal teams
• Mentor other Engineers on techniques and methodologies of troubleshooting and supporting ForeScout products and solutions
• Actively suggest and describe ways to improve the supportability of ForeScout products.
• Use Kanban development methodology to deliver on tasks
• Familiar with Atlassian tool set, including Jira, Confluence, etc.

Professional Skills:

• Minimum of 8-12 years of experience in software development or sustaining engineering preferably in Network or Endpoint security
• Past technical leadership experience
• Deep knowledge of software engineering concepts and techniques.
• C/C++ experience.
• Experience in Java programming
• Perl experience
• Linux/Unix development experience.
• Linux system/environment experience (scripting languages, regular exp., awk, sed, etc.)

Networking:

• Good understanding of TCP/IP.
• Knowledge in protocols (DNS, SMTP, SNMP, DHCP, 802.1 x).
• Familiar with network equipment configuration (Switch, Router, FW).
• Windows-based networks, domain management
• Low-level network monitoring and sniffing (Experience with sniffers).