Network Security Specialist

Requirements

• Design, configure, implement and maintain additional network security safeguards.
  
• Design, configure, provision and maintain IDS/IPS security policies.
  
• Design, configure, provision and maintain Threat Prevention security policies.
  
• Security monitoring – network monitoring and intrusion detection analysis to determine if there have been any attacks. Analyze network traffic to identify anomalies and test the information security controls for weaknesses.
  
• Threat response – Take action to contain malicious activity that has been detected, to minimize damage. Facilitate forensic analytics to determine the threat source.
  
• Research emerging threats – conduct research in IT Security to gain awareness of the latest information security technological developments.
  
• Communicate Security issues to management and Cyber Defense Center.
  
• Identify areas for improvement in detection & protection measures and initiate solutions.
  
• Provide 2nd and 3rd line support (during business hours and during standby).
  
• Implement customer Firewall and DNS requests.
  
• Participation in projects.
  
• Create and solve network security change and problem tickets.
  
• Lifecycle Management: Manage updates/upgrades/patches.
  
• Maintain relationship with stakeholders and vendors.
  
• Create and maintain operational support procedures.
  
• Create and maintain related documentation.
  
• Run usage reports.
  
• Security & Compliance.
  
• Maintain CMDB.
  

• Personal drive to learn and work with new technologies and products as required with a strong focus on cloud transformation and zero trust architecture.
  
• The ability to analyse and troubleshoot in a logical manner in order to rectify customer issues efficiently.
  
• Solid Networking skills at layer 3 and above.
  
• Experience with networking and security in enterprise network infrastructure environments.
  
• Experienced trouble -shooter on network issues and familiarity with the necessary tools Tcp dump and Wireshark.
  
• Knowledge & Experience with a broad portfolio of security services like Firewalls, IDS/IPS, Threat Prevention, VPN’s, Web Gateways like Palo Alto, Checkpoint, ZScaler, F5, Akamai, Clearpass, Infoblox.
  
• Knowledge & Experience with Networking (Routing/Switching, DNS/DHCP).
  
• Knowledge & Experience with IPv4, IPv6, HTTP, SSL, FTP, DNS.
  
• Knowledge & Experience on Web browsers and PAC -files.
  
• Knowledge of Authentication systems and Identity Providers such as LDAP, MS AD, ADFS.
  
• Experience with (API) scripting is a plus.
  
• Experience in any programming languages is a plus.
  
• Strong analytical and communication skills.
  
• Dutch & English writing and speaking.
  
• Knowledge and experience with Agile, Lean and ITIL.