Role: Network security engineer

Duration: 6+Months

Location: Halifax, CA (Remote)

The day-to-day is:

• Analyze business requirements and provide recommendations for building scalable solutions to meet security functional and non-functional requirements

• Build and operationalize solutions to deploy and protect the network. Define and configure security policies throughout the various network boundaries

• Create and maintain documentation related to network solutions; this may include conceptual, logical, and physical diagrams; new environment design documents; write ups on technical capabilities and solution configurations; etc.

• Perform continuous security policy analysis to ensure effectiveness of security defenses.

• Develop analytics/Analyze data to improve situational awareness and make informed decisions.

• Assist with the development and operation of both infrastructure-as-code as well as manual change tracking processes

• Manage small to medium security enhancement and remediation projects.

• Engage with stakeholders on business impacts, identify root cause via data analysis and experimentation, and implement solutions to achieve desired business outcomes securely

Desired skills:

- Experience with Palo Alto firewall and/or SaSE

- Experience troubleshooting website connectivity issues and/core network connectivity issues

- Experience conducting technical security assessments and implementing policy changes to remediate gaps

- Experience conducting cybersecurity incident investigations and remediating identified policy gaps

- Experience with Github Actions utilized for configuration-as-code/infrastructure-as-code

- Experience performing network traffic analysis via Splunk

Their background should include&

• Technical experience with network solutions; either infrastructure or security related.

• Understanding of network traffic with security controls in mind.

• Understanding of network technology.

• Foundational knowledge of malware operation and indicators or threat, current threat landscape (threat actors, APT, cyber-crime, etc)

• Foundational knowledge of network security architecture best practices

• Strong critical thinking and problem-solving abilities.

• Ability to prioritize and execute with minimal direction or oversight.

Desired skills&

- Experience with Palo Alto firewall and/or SaSE

- Experience troubleshooting website connectivity issues and/ore network connectivity issues

- Experience conducting technical security assessments and implementing policy changes to remediate gaps

- Experience conducting cybersecurity incident investigations and remediating identified policy gaps

- Experience with Github Actions utilized for configuration-as-code/infrastructure-as-code

- Experience performing network traffic analysis via Splunk