Senior Network Security Engineer

We are looking for a Senior Network/Security Engineer who will be responsible for designing, implementing, and managing infrastructure used to support First Orion employees and products.

What you'll be doing:

• Continuously evaluate network/security infrastructure for opportunities to improve functionality, reduce risk, and ensure high availability and network resilience.
• Design, implement, manage, and monitor network/security infrastructure supporting First Orion employee and productions environments.
• Technically lead/collaborate with peers, product owners, and leadership to implement/support security policies and technical solutions.
• Identify, define, and document security requirements, gaps, and recommend solutions.
• Plan, develop, implement and/or update information security strategy, policies, and standards.
• Provides guidance to stakeholders and senior leadership to ensure appropriate network security controls, business continuity, and disaster recovery are included in solution design/delivery.
• Participates in internal and external audits by collecting and presents data to auditors and participates in audit review sessions.
• Provides guidance and oversight to junior team members as needed for cross-functional training.
• Maintains awareness of industry technological advances and vendor product offerings
• Provide timely support for incident response and vulnerability management by collecting relevant intelligence, performing research, providing analysis, and maintaining updated infrastructure.
• IT service management processes that are performed by an organization to design, build, deliver, operate, and manage information technology.
• Coordinating/performing deployment/maintenance schedules.
• Participate in Network/Security team on call rotation.

What you'll need:

• 4+ years of network/security work experience managing complex network/security environments/processes/projects.
• Understanding of network protocols and experience with common network traffic analysis techniques.
• Excellent communication skills with ability to exercise good judgment in escalated situations.
• Technical experience to design, implement and maintain operational network/security solutions
• Significant experience in troubleshooting incidents with ability to use common tools and analysis techniques (e.g. network sniffers, Wireshark, iperf).
• Experience with establishing/maintaining configuration, syslog, and backup management solutions.
• Ability to handle multiple independent or team tasks with attention to detail and work validation.
• Analytical, process-oriented, self-driven/proactive and accountable work ethic.
• Team player able to effectively interact with peers, stakeholders, and leadership
• Working knowledge in the following areas:
  • Architecture, design, and engineering of network security internal/external boundaries
  • Configuration hardening of network and peripheral devices, both physical and virtual
  • Network firewall and IDS/IPS systems evaluation, design, implementation, and support
  • HPE Aruba switching, wireless, Central cloud management and cloud auth
  • Palo Alto physical and virtualized firewalls
  • Design and Implementation of internal and external VPN and IPSec connectivity
  • Digital Certificates, CA and SubCA principles, TLS/SSL and IPSec
  • Understanding of DNS, DHCP and IPAM configuration and management
  • Creation of network security policies, processes, auditing, and enforcement
• Knowledge/Experience with public cloud (AWS preferred) network security
• Solid Understanding of the OSI model, routing, switching and wireless protocols, network security, IPv4 networking, subnetting, and operational experience

Bonus Points:

• Bachelor of Science in Computer Science or related area of study or active certs: ie Security+, CCNA/CCNP, AWS Practitioner/SA/SSA, PCSNA, ACMA/ACMP, ACSA/ACSP
• Experience with specific public cloud services like AWS Direct Connect, Transit Gateway, VPC, Security Hub, Guard Duty, Inspector, WAF, Cloud watch, VPC and flowlogs
• Experience with networking in virtualized environments

Company Benefits:

Our work environment is energetic, focused, fun, and collaborative. We've created a special culture where trust and transparency are the key and employees are empowered to make their own decisions. Our people are passionate about what we do and have an indomitable spirit to get things done. Everyone is a part of the big picture here.

First Orion has been voted a Great Place to Work with top rankings in every category! Learn more about what our employees have to say on our First Orion Glassdoor page!

At this time, we are not able to sponsor visas, such as H-1B, for this particular position, Senior Network Engineer. First Orion is interested in every qualified candidate who is eligible to work in the United States. First Orion's immigration sponsorship policy is applied in a nondiscriminatory fashion regardless of race, gender, ethnic origin, or any other classification protected by law. First Orion is an Affirmative Action and Equal Opportunity Employer.