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Job Description - Network Security Engineer

Network Security Engineer –
Annapolis, MD

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



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