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Kirsten Overlee
Senior Network Engineer SME (Palo Alto)
Posted: 11/20/2023
2023-11-20
2023-12-27
Employment Type:
Contract
Industry: Financial Services
Job Number: 16731
Field of Expertise: InformationTechnology
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Job Description
Our client, a leading independent investment management firm, is seeking an experienced Sr. Network Engineer SME (Palo Alto) for a 6+ month contract in Houston, TX. This position is hybrid with 2 days on site, and 3 days remote.
The Sr. Network Engineer SME (Palo Alto) is the global corporate network teams firewall and security SME in the analysis, assessment, development, and evaluation of network security solutions and architectures to secure networks, applications, operating systems and databases. This is position is a SME position on the network architect and engineering team and is the security liaison for the team. This role is hands on design and implementation of various network security stack architectures with a primary focus on Palo Alto firewalls. Additionally, the Sr. Network Firewall Security Engineer assists in the development of network security requirements, assists in technical regulatory compliance efforts, evaluates security services and technologies, and reviews and documents information security policies and procedures as well as provides monitoring and oversight for alerts in this environment to hand off to Operations.
The Sr. Network Engineer SME has a broad, generalist knowledge of on-prem infrastructure security and knowledge in public cloud infrastructure and automation. They will ideally have a specialist area in network security (Palo Alto firewalls, DMZ, Segmentation, ADC, WAF, DDOS, redundancy architectures, end point security, etc), but are able to turn their attention to and learn something new rapidly. This role will include capabilities on presenting network security solution design options for securing Internet and Partner facing architectures, container security, multi-cloud and end point security awareness.
Responsibilities:
Required Skills:
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The Sr. Network Engineer SME (Palo Alto) is the global corporate network teams firewall and security SME in the analysis, assessment, development, and evaluation of network security solutions and architectures to secure networks, applications, operating systems and databases. This is position is a SME position on the network architect and engineering team and is the security liaison for the team. This role is hands on design and implementation of various network security stack architectures with a primary focus on Palo Alto firewalls. Additionally, the Sr. Network Firewall Security Engineer assists in the development of network security requirements, assists in technical regulatory compliance efforts, evaluates security services and technologies, and reviews and documents information security policies and procedures as well as provides monitoring and oversight for alerts in this environment to hand off to Operations.
The Sr. Network Engineer SME has a broad, generalist knowledge of on-prem infrastructure security and knowledge in public cloud infrastructure and automation. They will ideally have a specialist area in network security (Palo Alto firewalls, DMZ, Segmentation, ADC, WAF, DDOS, redundancy architectures, end point security, etc), but are able to turn their attention to and learn something new rapidly. This role will include capabilities on presenting network security solution design options for securing Internet and Partner facing architectures, container security, multi-cloud and end point security awareness.
Responsibilities:
- Strong Understanding of Palo Alto Firewalls
- Deploying Palo Alto firewalls in AWS and Azure (VM, NGFW and CN)
- Understands network and cloud firewall deployments and architectures
- Architecting and Engineering DMZ security for Internet facing web applications
- Network segmentation of non-prod and production environments
- Understanding various vendor solutions that are used to secure various architectures
- Proactively identify and determine priority for any network security gaps
- Mentors other Network Engineers for security best practices
- Point of Contact for all escalations from engineering and ops teams
- Firewall standards and tools used to audit standards are applied
- Firewall rule cleanup tools and procedures
- Works with security teams to create and/or steer processes for identifying and remediating vulnerabilities and risk
- Serve as point of escalation point for network security solutions
- Keep abreast of new cloud and automation developments, evaluate alternative approaches, and recommend new software or modifications which enhance operations and development activities
- Identify opportunities and make recommendations to improve availability, reliability, efficiency, performance and overall service within the distributed computing environment and associated departments
- Provide clear documentation of technical solutions and communicate plans to management and customers
- Perform related duties as required or assigned
Required Skills:
- 7-10 years’ experience managing various network architectures
- 5+ years’ experience on Palo Alto firewalls and securing Internet facing applications
- 3+ years of experience in Public Cloud technologies including AWS and Microsoft Azure specifically in networking and security solutions and implementation.
- 5+ years of technical experience with network security technologies (ex. Firewalls, proxy and network segmentation)
- 5+ years experience working with routing protocols BGP and OSPF
- Experience in DevOps scripting and automation using tools such as Ansible, Puppet, Chef, and/or Terraform
- Understanding of Openshift, Docker and Kubernetes container environment
- Experience with DLP, WAF, DDOS, IPS/IDS
- Experience with Palo Cloud, SOAR, Twistlock, Redlock and Prisma Access
- Experience with various endpoint security solutions
- Information Technology/Cisco Certified Network Associate (CCNA)
- Information Technology/Cisco Certified Network Professional Security (CCNP)
- Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience in Computer Science
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Meet Your Recruiter
Kirsten Overlee
Senior Director Recruiting
Kirsten is a highly strategic, results oriented Senior Director of IT Recruiting with more than 20 years of experience attracting and retaining top quality candidates. She currently leads our outstanding IT and Engineering recruiting team and handles account management for some of Corps Teams top clients.
Prior to Corps Team, Kirsten was a Sr Recruiter for two well-known IT Staffing Firms and a Corporate Recruiter for MedImpact Healthcare Systems, Western Digital and Texas Instruments. Kirsten brings a unique expertise to the table based on her diverse recruiting background and has gained a reputation as a no-nonsense recruitment professional. Kirsten can draw upon a diverse history in Talent Acquisition, “Needle in a Haystack”, sourcing, recruitment and screening, Executive Search, Client Relationship Management, Account Management and Client Retention. Kirsten is an active professional member of SHRM and possesses a Bachelor of Business Administration with an emphasis in Management Information Systems. Kirsten will be with Corps Team for ten years this July.
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