Senior Network Security Engineer

State of Virginia (Virginia Department of Transportations)

Role: Senior Network Security Engineer -- 807471

Client location - 9120 Lockwood Boulevard Mechanicsville, VA 23116

Interview Type - In Person Only

Work Arrangement: Hybrid (2-3 Days a Week Only)

Short Description:

The Virginia Department of Transportations is seeking is seeking an experienced Sr Network Security Engineer (Sr NSE) to implement and support the agency’s IT network, cloud, and computing infrastructure. The Sr NSE performs day-to-day activities related to securing VDOTs infrastructure.

Day to Day Responsibilities:

• Ensures network security architecture aligns with operational security standards prior to and after deployment.
• Lead investigation and containment of network security incidents.
• Review firewall rule requests and ensure compliance with security standards.
• Design and maintain secure hybrid network architecture across on-premises and Azure environments.
• Monitor security events using SIEM technologies and coordinate incident response activities.
• Perform network security assessments and recommend remediation strategies.
• Develop and maintain network security standards, diagrams, and operational documentation.
• Support penetration testing and remediation efforts.
• Participate in on-call support during critical security incidents.
• Responsible for conducting proactive threat hunting and anomaly detection.
• Validates WAF and firewall placement and integration exposure/connectivity. Also leads implementation, review, and management of agency WAF(s).
• Identifies and diagnoses system problems and threats by using system logs, line monitors, SIEM, diagnostic software, and test equipment.
• Identifies, prioritizes, and remediates network security vulnerabilities.
• Must have the ability to provide documentation, network architecture topology diagrams, IP schemes, firewall rules, and access controls when required.
• Must have the ability to work independently on assigned projects. 

Required Skills:

• Candidate must have experience in the following areas: Incident response, Security investigations, Log analysis, Threat intelligence, Security monitor.
• Candidate must have experience with the SIEM products (e.g. Splunk, Microsoft Sentinel).
• Candidate must have experience in vulnerability management and remediation tracking as well as vulnerability scanning tools (e.g. Nessus, Tenable, Def).
• Candidate must have experience in the following areas: Active Directory, MFA, Conditional Access, Certificates.
• Candidate must have experience with; SEC530, CIS Benchmarks, NIST CSF, NIST 800-53, Zero Trust principles
• Candidate must have experience with the following: Cisco ISE, NAC, 802.1X, RADIUS, TACACS.
• Candidate must have experience with the following products: Palo Alto, F5 Distributed Cloud, Azure WAF, Cisco VPN, Global Protect, F5 BIG-IP.
• Candidate must have experience working in highly regulated environments and leading technical troubleshooting during outages.
• Candidate must have ability to communicate technical issues to technical and executive audiences and an ability to mentor junior engineers.
• Candidate should have achieved or ability to achieve the following certifications: Azure Security Engineer (AZ-500), Azure Network Engineer (AZ-700).
• Experience with Enterprise Networking, Enterprise Security, Azure Networking, WAF/NGFW
• Supporting environments with 300+ Network Devices.