Job Title: Network Security Mid

Location: Irving, TX -Onsite 3-5 days

As an advanced engineer, you are expected to do these things with little technical direction and with only general guidance on new assignments:

• Firewalls and network filters, in both Enterprise, Stores, and cloud networks

• Intrusion Prevention policies

• Site-to-site and remote-access VPN connectivity

• Network Access Control

• Authentication, Authorization and Accounting (to include multi-factor authentication)

• Web access proxy servers and URL filtering

• DNS Security

• Threat research, vulnerability remediation, and creation of compensating controls

• Network Security policy creation, exception documentation and approval

• Provide suggestions to team lead/manager in creating your professional development and training plan.

• Prioritize taskings and projects assigned based on importance to accomplishment of business objectives. Occasionally assist junior teammates with maintaining proper prioritization.

• Solve diverse and complex issues where analysis of situations and data requires in-depth evaluation of identifiable factors. Provide escalation support and technical guidance to teammates in areas where you are a SME.

• Work on projects assigned to you, in effort to advance partnership opportunities between Network Security team and other business areas.

• Work with senior engineers to define network security requirements for current and future state end-to-end architectures and platforms to advance security controls and the security posture of the business.

• Assist senior engineers in collaborating with development and engineering teams to prioritize security risks, provide mitigation or remediation recommendations, and implement compensating controls.

• Perform network security architecture and third-party risk management reviews.

• Perform network security platform testing, vulnerability remediation, and operating system hardening to reduce attack surface.

• Assist in performing proof-of-concept testing for network security solutions under consideration for purchase and implementation.

• Assist in developing and maintaining network security policies, standards, processes and workflows

Requirements:

Education/Experience

• Bachelor’s degree in related field, Master’s preferred, or equivalent experience

• 5 years of related experience with Bachelor’s, 3 years with Master’s

Certification/Licenses

• Must have: At least one entry-level vendor certification (with non-entry-level preferred) in the Network Security arena (Palo Alto PCNSA/PCNSE preferred, Cisco CCNA/CCNP Security, Juniper JNCIA-SEC/JNCIS-SEC, etc.) or equivalent experience

• Preferred: At least one entry-level vendor-neutral certification in the Information Security arena (GICF, GSEC, CISA, CEH, etc.)