Senior Network Engineer

hackajob has partnered with global consulting firm specializing in financial services, offering expertise in digital transformation, regulatory compliance, and technology-driven solutions.

Role:Senior Network Engineer

Location: Phoenix, AZ (hybrid 3 days/week/remote)

6-month contract (1099 NOT C2C)

What You’ll Get to Do:

• Develop and maintain detailed documentation of network security designs, configurations, and procedures.
• Maintain close ties to various stakeholders, developers, and engineers across the company, ensuring the services we create meet their needs as products evolve.
• Engineer solutions (initial state, build, deploy, tune, optimize, automation, continuous monitoring).
• Create content filters, rules, dashboards, network security KPI/KRI and reports.
• Provide cybersecurity, compliance and audit evidence for monitored network systems.
• SOAR & Automation: Identify and implement automation of repetitive tasks. Security Orchestration, Automation and Response.
• Responsible for ongoing engineering support and operation of Zscaler Cyberthreat Protection, and Data Protection, Zero Trust Network products.
• Support Zscaler network security upgrades, troubleshooting, and deployment for both on-prem and in the cloud.
• Communicate extensively with Data Protection Product and engineering teams across the organization.
• Engineer, build, and maintain infrastructure to meet the organization’s requirements and ensure high availability.
• Applying adept understanding and experience with systems automation platforms and technologies.
• Drive complex technical initiatives to fully delivery leveraging knowledge of Cyber security practices, software engineering principles, agile frameworks, and customer engagement.

What You’ll Bring with You:

• 10 years of hands-on experience in network security, infrastructure security, cloud security, edge security, network data security, and other networking cybersecurity-related controls and technologies including DNS, F.W, Zero TRUST.
• Ability to identify security risks and weaknesses and provide security mitigation and remediation recommendations
• Prior experience with configuration and management of Zscaler cloud security solutions, including Zscaler Internet Access (ZIA) and Zscaler Private Access (ZPA).
• Ability to foster collaborative, open, working relationships with technology groups and other stakeholders, including vendor relationships.
• Proficiency to engineer and build network security capabilities in the areas of monitoring, detection, protection, prevention and the concept of cyber defense network engineering.
• Experience implementing multiple high-visibility and high-impact enterprise cybersecurity networking projects with cross-functional teams while maintaining superior results including planning, development and management of technical requirements, design, testing and deployment of security solutions.
• Strong understanding of Zscaler Zero TRUST and Zscaler Network Security principles.
• Expertise in engineering, deployment, automation, and monitoring network security components like Encryption, DNS Security, Network DLP, Zero TRUST, F.W, Segmentation, Security Logging, and Defense-In-Depth with Zscaler and/or other commercial network cybersecurity solutions.
• Work closely with stakeholder teams (Compliance, Windows, Linux, Network, Chronicle, Remedy, Asset Management) to develop high value enterprise capabilities/results while reducing noise and false alarms.
• Experience with managing Hardware Security Modules (HSMs).
• Experience with other cloud security solutions, such as Palo Alto Networks or Check Point.
• Familiarity with DevOps tools, such as Jenkins or Docker.
• Experience with scripting languages, such as Python or PowerShell.
• Clear communication skills and ability to interact effectively at multiple levels of an organization, and to influence leadership (Including translating technical information based on specific audiences).
• Bachelor’s degree in computer science or related field highly preferred.
• Multiple certifications in cybersecurity and data protection cybersecurity highly preferred (CISSP, GIAC, CISM, CCSP, CISA, or Security , or other related certifications).
• Zscaler Certified Security Engineer (ZCSE)
• Zscaler Digital Transformation Administrator Certification, Zero Trust Certified Associate
• Other Network Security Certifications including CISCO or Palo Alto Certified

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