Network Security Manager

A client of The Intersect Group is seeking a Network Security Manager to add to their team to lead and enhance their enterprise-wide network security initiatives. This role oversees the design, implementation, and management of security technologies across enterprise, retail, and cloud environments. The ideal candidate will bring a deep technical understanding of network protection systems including firewalls, VPNs, NAC, intrusion prevention, DNS security, and multi-factor authentication while also providing strong leadership, mentoring, and collaboration across departments.

Responsibilities:

• Act as point of contact for leadership to advance partnership opportunities between Network Security team and other business areas. Exercise independent judgment in determining appropriate methods and procedures on new assignments for team.
• Create or approve professional development and training plans for your team. Ensure budget is requested for continued professional development of your team.
• Prioritize taskings and projects for the team based on importance to accomplishment of business objectives. Ensure all team members maintain proper prioritization to maximize efficiency.
• Develop job descriptions, conduct hiring interviews, and develop pipeline of candidates for future inclusion in the network security program.
• Oversee or perform the solving of significant and unique issues where analysis of situations and data requires evaluation of intangible factors. Provide escalation support and both technical and organizational guidance for all Network Security issues.
• Lead design and architecture efforts for issues impacting future concepts in network security and advise senior leadership about network security products and technologies.
• Provide guidance to team members in defining network security requirements for current and future state end-to-end architectures and platforms to advance security controls and the security posture of the business.
• Collaborate with other managers in cross-functional teams to prioritize security risks, provide mitigation or remediation recommendations, and implement compensating controls.
• Oversee or lead network security architecture and third-party risk management reviews.
• Oversee team in performing network security platform testing, vulnerability remediation, and operating system hardening to reduce attack surface.
• Oversee team in performing proof-of-concept testing for network security solutions under consideration for purchase and implementation.
• Provide Information Security leadership with updates and metrics on effectiveness of network security controls.
• Manage development and maintenance of network security policies, standards, processes and workflows.

Lead the team in the following domains:

• Firewalls and network filters, in both Enterprise, Stores, and cloud networks
• Intrusion Prevention policies
• Site-to-site and remote-access VPN connectivity
• Network Access Control
• Authentication, Authorization and Accounting (to include multi-factor authentication)
• Web access proxy servers and URL filtering
• PKI and certificate issuance and management
• DNS Security
• Threat research, vulnerability remediation, and creation of compensating controls
• Network Security policy creation, exception documentation and approval
• Management of multi-factor authentication tokens

Requirements:

Education/Experience

• Bachelor s in related field, with Master s (MBA desirable) preferred, or equivalent experience
• 10-15 years of related experience in Network Security

Certification/Licenses

• Preferred: At least one professional-level vendor certification in the Network Security arena (Palo Alto PCNSE preferred, Cisco CCNP Security, Juniper JNCIP-SEC, etc.) as well as at least one non-entry-level vendor-neutral certification in the Information Security arena (CISSP, CCSP, etc.)