SENIOR SECURITY ENGINEER

02-19-2013

SENIOR SECURITY ENGINEER

Job Title: Senior Security Engineer

Work Location: US-KS-Topeka

Targeted Start: 2/25/2013

Travel Required: none

 

Overview:

 

The Senior Security Engineer is responsible for designing, engineering, implementing, and supporting/maintaining complex security infrastructure deployments. This includes analysis and support for the following technologies: Firewalls, IDS/IPS, UTM, VPN, Web Content Filters, Proxies, DLP, SIEM, and Log aggregation/correlation technologies.

 

Contract Length: 6 Months

 

Location: Topeka, KS

 

Responsibilities:

 

Responsible for the overall management of Enterprise client security infrastructure including the planning, design, deployment and 24x7 management

Assists in the development and implementation of security policies, procedures and measures in a networking environment 
Prepare, Configure, Administer and Manage Firewalls, ACLs, VPN appliances, UTM, IPS/IDS and applicable Network management tools in a multi-vendor environment 
Provides complex design, best practices, engineering, implementation, maintenance, and hardware/software upgrade of overall security infrastructure for the client. 
Perform security architecture reviews and develop detailed engineering design and deployment plans in order to identify and prevent security breaches 
Creates and revises network and security documentation 
Prepares status reports on security matters to develop security risk analysis scenarios and documents solutions 
Provide Audit support 
Provide support and troubleshooting on network security. Participates in an on call rotation to provide 24x7 support 
Day to day monitoring and performance and tuning of the security functionality. 
Reviews security service changes and maintenance arrangements. 
Remains informed of new security technologies and trends; evaluates and makes technology recommendations to management for the continual improvement of the network infrastructure 
Provide Audit support and maintain network security environments to comply with relevant compliance standards (e.g. Sarbanes-Oxley)

 

Qualifications:

 

Experience (typically gained from 5-7 years) working in an Information Security role 
Experience (typically gained from 3-5 years) with Cisco security platforms, specifically ASA and VPN configuration 
Experience with Juniper SRX, Palo Alto, or Fortinet security platforms desirable 
Experience with one or more of the following security technologies: 
     Anti-malware 
     Firewalls 
     Application Proxy 
     VPNs 
     DDOS prevention 
     IDS/IPS 
     Anti-Virus 
     Address Translation 
     Access Control Lists 
Experience working with Packet capture technologies including Sniffer and TCP dumps 
Experience performing and participating in security audits 
Extremely process and detail oriented 
Strong written and verbal communication skills and familiarity with preparing documentation

 

Desired Education:

 

Bachelor’s degree preferred

 

Desired Certifications:

 

CISSP, CCSP, CISA, or other security certifications highly preferred

Other technical certifications (CCSP, CCNP, JNCIS) preferred

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