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