Network Security Engineer

Job Summary:

The Client is seeking proposals from prospective Offerors to provide one (1) Network Security Engineer. The Network Security Engineer will actively participate in planning and coordinating the design, installation, and connectivity of computer and network systems to ensure stable, scalable, redundant, and secure 24x7 network operations.

Job Duties / Responsibilities:

• 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.
  

Required Skills:

• Associate degree
  

Active certifications:

• Palo Alto Networks Certified Network Security Administrator (PCNSA) or Palo Alto Networks Network Security Professional Certification
  
• Cisco Certified Network Associate (CCNA) Enterprise or CCNA Security Certification
  

Preferred Skills:

• Ten (10) years of CONUS technical experience in IT networking and network security
  
• Associate's degree in an Information Technology (IT) related field
  

Certifications (active or expired within three (3) years):

• Palo Alto Networks Certified Network Security Engineer (PCNSE) or equivalent
  
• Cisco Certified Network Professional (CCNP) Enterprise or CCNP Security
  

Requirements

Required Experience:

• Five (5) years experience with Palo Alto Networks next generation firewall services
  
• Five (5) years experience with Intrusion Detection and Prevention using Palo Alto Networks
  
• Five (5) years experience with Content Filtering Palo Alto Networks
  
• Five (5) years experience with Virtual Private Networks using Palo Alto Networks
  
• Five (5) years experience with Data Loss Prevention
  
• Five (5) years experience with TLS/SSL Inspection
  
• Four (4) years experience in complex switching, routing, wireless with Cisco Systems
  
• Three (3) years experience with Reverse Proxies and Load Balancing with A10 Networks
  
• Two (2) years experience with Network Access Control (Cisco Client, Free Radius, ACLs)
  

Experience with:

• Microsoft multifactor authentication
  
• Cloud-based virtual networking and security services
  
• 802.1x authentication standards
  
• EIGRP, OSPF, BGP routing protocols
  
• Enterprise Data Center micro-segmentation
  
• PKI and certificate management
  
• Nessus, NMAP, Windows, Unix, Linux
  
• Opnet, Riverbed, Wireshark
  
• Panorama, SolarWinds