Overview
On Site
Depends on Experience
Accepts corp to corp applications
Contract - W2
Contract - 1 Month(s)
Skills
Access Control
Auditing
Authentication
Border Gateway Protocol
Cloud Computing
Collaboration
Job Details
We are looking for Network Security Engineer for our client in Dallas, TX
Job Title: Network Security Engineer
Job Type: Contract
Job Description:
- The Network Security Architect will provide internal risk advisory and consulting services to infrastructure developers and network engineering teams.
- This role focuses on ensuring secure, resilient, and compliant network architectures through design reviews, risk assessments, threat modeling, policy development, and vulnerability management.
- Provide internal risk advisory and consulting services to lead infrastructure developers.
- Partner with network administrators and engineering stakeholders to ensure network security designs meet standards.
- Assist with design reviews, risk assessments, and advocate for security design, posture, and resiliency improvements.
- Perform threat modeling to identify potential weaknesses and design mitigation strategies.
- Review and approve configurations for network components, including firewalls, IDS/IPS, VPN gateways, load balancers, and WAFs.
- Develop patterns and certify reference architectures for security best practices; recommend changes where appropriate.
- Develop, review, and update network security policies, diagrams, procedures, standards, and guidelines.
- Collaborate with audit and compliance teams as needed.
- Lead security and vulnerability reviews of legacy, production, and affiliated network connectivity.
- Architect network segmentation to reduce exposure to sensitive data and critical applications.
- Adopt cybersecurity framework standards across network and application stacks.
- Review vulnerability and penetration test results to identify exposure and improve network security posture.
- Stay educated on emerging threats and security best practices.
- 8+ years of experience in network systems security architecture, engineering, or administration.
- Proficient with VPNs, WAFs, next-generation firewalls, routers, switches, IAM, ZTNA, IDS/IPS, proxies, DNS, and network access control.
- In-depth proficiency with IPv4/IPv6, QoS, MPLS, BGP, TCP/IP, and the OSI 7-layer model.
- Understanding of security principles and experience with NIST/CIS benchmarks, Cybersecurity Maturity Model Certification, and Cybersecurity Framework.
- Advanced understanding of applications, databases, web services, authentication, and CI/CD pipelines.
- Expertise designing scalable, resilient, and secure network architectures, including LAN/WAN, SDN, and cloud networking.
- Aptitude in one or more scripting languages (Python preferred).
- Strong written and verbal communication skills across organizational levels.
- Ability to stay organized, prioritize tasks, and meet deadlines within defined SLAs.
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