Responsibilities:
- Perform engineering tasks in support of firewall and edge services.
- Maintain advanced security management for firewalls and perform regular audits of perimeter defenses
- Develop firewall and WAF configurations/policies to prevent new security issues.
- Implement network and edge solutions that empower teams to deliver secure infrastructure at scale.
- Identify and prioritize security vulnerabilities in our environment and helping to drive remediation.
- Making recommendations for necessary changes to our security controls to address emerging security threats.
- Respond to active threats to ensure appropriate security controls protect the environment with a defense in depth strategic approach
- Actively seeks out opportunities to improve key systems, does not need to be directed daily.
- Assists in definition, documentation, and evolution of best practices for the network security engineering program.
- Goes above and beyond basic requirements to support their own team and others.
- Helps to identify key gaps in security and tooling functionality that will drive significant improvement in network and cloud security.
- Has the ability to take an assignment, project or problem and implement a solution to completion.
Requirements:
- Experience in network security or firewall administration.
- Experience with incident response.
- Web application firewall management experience.
- Understanding of security best-practices and how to implement them at an enterprise level.
- Basic coding skills – Terraform, Python, other scripting languages.
- Understanding of common Information Security concepts, practices, and procedures
- Understanding of vulnerability analysis, penetration testing, encryption technologies, intrusion detection, incident response
- Strong written and oral communication skills and the ability to prioritize work
- Strong aptitude for problem solving, math, and communication
- Strong organizational and interpersonal skill
Desired Experience or Skills:
- Bachelor’s degree in Cybersecurity, Information Systems, Computer Science, or related area of study
- Experience with cloud-native firewall solutions
- Experience with Cloudflare
- Experience with Palo Alto firewalls
- Experience with AWS or Azure public cloud platforms a plus
- Solid infrastructure/SRE/engineering skills
- SANS GIAC, CEH, CompTIA Security+, AWS or GCP security certifications.