Senior Network & Security Engineer

Role Purpose:

Responsible for setting up, developing, and maintaining computer networks within an organization or between organizations. Offering support to users, who can be staff, clients, customers, and suppliers, and troubleshoot any problems that arise; this may in some cases involve designing new networks. Ensures the integrity of high availability network infrastructure to provide maximum performance for your users. Furthermore, responsible for the risk assessment, identifying vulnerabilities within a network, and creating firewalls, or configuring systems to enhance existing security features.

Role Responsibilities (including but not limited to):

• Operations tasks for various network and security devices and services in a multi-vendor environment (e.g., routers, switches, firewalls, SIEM, load balancers, WAF, VPN, IPS, NAC & Endpoint solutions)
• Implementation for Network and security complex solutions, multi-vendor environment
• Integration between network and security devices in a multi-vendor environment
• Implementation and troubleshooting Voice over IP, and Cisco Collaboration solution, and future planning
• Performs network maintenance and system upgrades including service packs, patches, hot fixes and security configurations
• Monitors network performance and ensure system availability and reliability, and prepare future planning
• Monitors security system and users’ behavior, to detect and response to security risks, and prepares for future security systems enhancement
• Provides Level-2/3 support and troubleshooting to resolve issues
• Configuration control and security policies monitoring to ensure infrastructure, network and security reliable and smooth operation
• Assesses security tools, policies, and procedures to be complied with corporate standards
• Vendor management, and other IT personnel for problem resolution

Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or a related subject

Experience:

• 5-7 years of extensive hands-on experience in network implementations and configurations including (but not limited to) Cisco Switches, Routers, Firewalls, IPS, and VOIP

Job-Specific Skills:

• Solid understanding of data networking including deep knowledge of TCP/IP
• Working experience in deploying, securing and operating cisco and juniper devices
• Understanding of OWASP top 10
• Deploying, managing and fine tuning F5 local traffic manager (LTM)
• Deploying, managing and fine tuning F5 application security manager (ASM)
• Solid understanding and working experience in deploying and operating intrusion prevention systems (IPS) MacAfee IPS is preferred
• Solid understanding and working experience in end-point-protection (Symantec) is preferred
• Working experience in deploying designing, implementing and auditing firewalls and proxies including cisco ASA, firepower and Palo Alto firewall
• Solid understanding and working experience in Microsoft Active directory and Group policy
• Power user level of Linux operating system
• Working experience in continues monitoring and proactive mitigation techniques.
• Solid security analytic assessments, testing, and scanning.
• Deep knowledge of using packet analysis tools (tcpdump, Wireshark, ngrep, etc.)
• Solid understanding and working experience in deploying and operating VPNs including IPSec site-to-site and remote access.
• Professional documentation skills
• Ability to work within a team is a must

Core Competencies:

Initiative & Problem Solving:

• Creates opportunities or minimizes potential problems by anticipating and preparing for these in advance
• Seeks multiple perspectives to understand the breadth and depth of complex issues
• Actively finds new ways of doing things to improve quality of work

Adaptability & Flexibility:

• Keeps staff motivated during times of change, promoting the benefits
• Reduces the concern of others when leading change
• Takes ownership of communicating change initiatives clearly, ensuring smooth implementation
• Alters normal procedures to fit a specific situation/unforeseen circumstances

Working with Others:

• Understands differences, anticipates areas of conflict in tasks and takes action
• Backs up team members and stand up for them if they fail
• Identifies opportunities for joint working and is clear about roles and responsibilities within the team to minimize duplication and deliver shared goals
• Encourages an environment of sharing ideas, opinions and openness within the team

Effective Communication:

• Provides timely, appropriate and useful information to others to ensure team members remain focused
• Is influential and persuasive when necessary
• Uses a variety of techniques & customization based on situation and people’s differences
• Takes feedback into consideration while implementing organizational change

Job Specific Competencies:

Delivering Results

• Demonstrate flexibility to meet the clients’ changing needs
• Reallocate resources to ensure meeting changing clients requests
• Promptly resolves customer enquiries
• Efficiently delivers work to successful completion despite challenges & setbacks

Project Management

• Organizes work in a saving time manner
• Creates realistic plans to achieve own and teams’ deadlines
• Managing Projects resources to ensure achieving the set milestones and project’s objectives
• Monitors progress to overcome any possible delays/challenges
• Effectively implements and monitors moderately complex plans/schedules
• Keeps accurate and current records in a logical organizing system
• Is able to respond to unexpected high priority tasks
• Promptly resolves customer enquiries
• Efficiently delivers work to successful completion despite challenges & setbacks

Working With Tools & Technologies

• Identify potential hazards and risks related to the used tools
• Shares knowledge and expertise openly