Senior Network Security Engineer

The Senior Network Security Engineer is responsible for the configuration, deployment, and management of the customer’s security appliances and infrastructure in a 24x7x365 environment. The senior engineer is responsible for but not limited to monitoring, configuration changes, accounts, and software updates for the customer’s security appliances for internal and border security framework. The engineer must be able to analyze, troubleshoot, and remediate issues within the enterprise. The engineer will also work closely with other teams to ensure that all security solutions are performing to standard.

This position is located at 6555 Rock Spring Drive, Bethesda, MD travel is primarily local in the DC metro area.

Responsibilities:

• Administration of LAN technologies for Cisco ASA Firewalls
• Administration of firewalls, including but not limited to Cisco ASA, ACS, RSA, Cisco AnyConnect, Gigamon, Cisco VPN, Palo Alto
• Assist in troubleshooting and problem solving for a wide variety of client/user LAN/Security related issues
• Work closely with other IT functional teams to ensure cohesive support and strategies across the IT organization
• Support the development of project plans and execute as authorized
• Maintain relationships with key Third-Party software/hardware vendors to provide support to the infrastructure as needed.
• Provide daily support for tickets: service requests, incidents, problems, and tasks
• Execute tasks to support projects
• Auditing and Compliance
• Configuration changes and Code upgrades needed to address vulnerabilities report by internal/external audits.
• Vulnerability mitigation.
• IOS code version bug scrapping with Cisco SME/TAC
• IOS code version lab testing before implementing in production
• Quarterly IOS code upgrades
• Auditing of any newly deployed firewalls to verify compliance
• 24-hours availability for weekly On-Call rotation with the security team
• Firewall hardware refreshes including rack and stack

Required Skills:

• BS degree in Computer Science, Information Systems or equivalent.
• Minimum of four years of experience implementing and maintaining Cisco ASA, VPN, ACS, AnyConnect, Gigamon
• Minimum four years of experience in a Network Security Engineering role.
• Experience with network infrastructure in enterprise datacenter solutions.
• Experience with mid to large scale implementations of Cisco firewalls.
• Ability to obtain a Public Trust