Sr Network Security Engineer
Accylerate · Mechanicsville, VA · Yesterday
HybridContract
Key Responsibilities
- Ensures network security architecture aligns with operational security standards prior to and after deployment.
- Lead investigation and containment of network security incidents.
- Review firewall rule requests and ensure compliance with security standards.
- Design and maintain secure hybrid network architecture across on-premises and Azure environments.
- Monitor security events using SIEM technologies and coordinate incident response activities.
- Perform network security assessments and recommend remediation strategies.
- Develop and maintain network security standards, diagrams, and operational documentation.
- Support penetration testing and remediation efforts.
- Participate in on-call support during critical security incidents.
- Responsible for conducting proactive threat hunting and anomaly detection.
- Validates WAF and firewall placement and integration exposure/connectivity.
- Also leads implementation, review, and management of agency WAF(s).
- Identifies and diagnoses system problems and threats by using system logs, line monitors, SIEM, diagnostic software, and test equipment.
- Identifies, prioritizes, and remediates network security vulnerabilities.
Required Skills & Experience
- Enterprise Networking
- Enterprise Security
- Azure Networking
- WAF/NGFW
- Supporting environments with 300+ Network Devices
- Incident response, Security investigations, Log analysis, Threat intelligence, Security monitor
- Experience with SIEM products (e.g. Splunk, Microsoft Sentinel)
- Vulnerability management and remediation tracking as well as vulnerability scanning tools (e.g. Nessus, Tenable, Def)
- Active Directory, MFA, Conditional Access, Certificates
- SEC530, CIS Benchmarks, NIST CSF, NIST 800-53, Zero Trust principles
- Cisco Client, NAC, 802.1X, RADIUS, TACACS
- Palo Alto, F5 Distributed Cloud, Azure WAF, Cisco VPN, Global Protect, F5 BIG-IP
- Experience working in highly regulated environments and leading technical troubleshooting during outages
- Ability to communicate technical issues to technical and executive audiences and an ability to mentor junior engineers
- Achieved or ability to achieve the following certifications: Azure Security Engineer (AZ-500), Azure Network Engineer (AZ-700)