Network Security Automation Engineer

IBM; Quezon City; On-site; PHP 600,000 - 1,200,000; Full time

Job summary

IBM Solutions Delivery, Inc. in Manila region seeks a Network Security Automation Engineer to support infrastructure engineering, security, and risk management across client networks.

You will analyze incidents, provision and deploy infrastructure, perform risk assessments, and ensure compliance with SLAs, leveraging IaC and cloud networking expertise.

Qualifications

• Minimum 5 years in network engineering for enterprise infrastructure.
• Hands-on Cisco networking: routing, switching, troubleshooting.
• Experience with NextGen Firewalls (Palo Alto, Fortinet, Check Point, Cisco Firepower).
• Knowledge of firewall policies, VPNs, IDS/IPS, and access control.
• IaC and network automation tools (Terraform, Ansible).
• Cloud networking concepts with AWS/Azure/GCP.

Responsibilities

• Analyze and resolve infrastructure incidents, minimize downtime, verify resolution.
• Provision, deploy, configure, and migrate infrastructure products.
• Conduct risk assessments to identify vulnerabilities and mitigate risks.
• Manage and support infrastructure to meet performance and security requirements.
• Ensure process compliance and SLA adherence.

Skills

Network engineering

Cisco networking

Firewall security

Network security concepts

IaC / automation

Cloud networking

Performance monitoring

Education

Bachelor's Degree

Tools

Cisco Firepower

Palo Alto

Fortinet

Check Point

Job description

A career in IBM Consulting is built on long-term client relationships and close collaboration worldwide. You’ll work with leading companies across industries, helping them shape their hybrid cloud and AI journeys. With support from our strategic partners, robust IBM technology, and Red Hat, you’ll have the tools to drive meaningful change and accelerate client impact. At IBM Consulting, curiosity fuels success. You’ll be encouraged to challenge the norm, explore new ideas, and create innovative solutions that deliver real results. Our culture of growth and empathy focuses on your long-term career development while valuing your unique skills and experiences.

In this role, you'll work in one of our IBM Consulting Client Innovation Centers (Delivery Centers), where we deliver deep technical and industry expertise to a wide range of public and private sector clients around the world. Our delivery centers offer our clients locally based skills and technical expertise to drive innovation and adoption of new technology.

Your role and responsibilities

As an Infrastructure Specialist in Platform Engineering Services, you will act as a trusted advisor to Client IT, providing expertise in infrastructure, security, and risk management. Your primary responsibility will be to ensure high-quality technical support, meeting Service Level Agreements (SLAs) and adhering to process compliance.

Your primary responsibilities will include:

• Analyze and Resolve Incidents: Analyze and resolve infrastructure-related incidents, minimizing downtime and ensuring prompt restoration of services. This involves identifying root causes, implementing fixes, and verifying resolution.
• Provision and Deploy Infrastructure: Provision, deploy, configure, and migrate infrastructure products to meet client needs, ensuring seamless integration and minimal disruption to services.
• Conduct Risk Assessments: Conduct business impact analyses and risk assessments to identify potential vulnerabilities, providing recommendations to mitigate risks and enhance overall IT resilience.
• Manage and Support Infrastructure: Manage and support infrastructure products, ensuring they are running at optimal levels, meeting performance and security requirements, and adhering to process compliance.
• Ensure Process Compliance: Ensure that all infrastructure-related activities are performed in accordance with established processes and procedures, meeting SLAs and regulatory requirements.

Required education

Bachelor's Degree

Required technical and professional expertise

• Minimum 5 years of experience in Network Engineering, supporting enterprise network infrastructure.
• Strong hands‑on experience with Cisco networking technologies, including routing, switching, and troubleshooting.
• Experience managing and configuring NextGen Firewalls such as Palo Alto, Fortinet, Check Point, Cisco Firepower, or similar firewall security solutions.
• Knowledge of network security concepts, including firewall policies, VPNs, IDS/IPS, and access control.
• Experience with Infrastructure as Code (IaC) and network automation tools such as Terraform, Ansible, or similar technologies.
• Familiarity with cloud networking concepts and platforms such as AWS, Azure, or Google Cloud Platform (GCP).
• Ability to monitor, maintain, and optimize network performance, availability, and security.

ABOUT BUSINESS UNIT

IBM Consulting is IBM’s consulting and global professional services business, with market leading capabilities in business and technology transformation. With deep expertise in many industries, we offer strategy, experience, technology, and operations services to many of the most innovative and valuable companies in the world. Our people are focused on accelerating our clients’ businesses through the power of collaboration. We believe in the power of technology responsibly used to help people, partners and the planet.

YOUR LIFE @ IBM

In a world where technology never stands still, we understand that, dedication to our clients success, innovation that matters, and trust and personal responsibility in all our relationships, lives in what we do as IBMers as we strive to be the catalyst that makes the world work better.

Being an IBMer means you’ll be able to learn and develop yourself and your career, you’ll be encouraged to be courageous and experiment everyday, all whilst having continuous trust and support in an environment where everyone can thrive whatever their personal or professional background.

Our IBMers are growth minded, always staying curious, open to feedback and learning new information and skills to constantly transform themselves and our company. They are trusted to provide on‑going feedback to help other IBMers grow, as well as collaborate with colleagues keeping in mind a team focused approach to include different perspectives to drive exceptional outcomes for our customers. The courage our IBMers have to make critical decisions everyday is essential to IBM becoming the catalyst for progress, always embracing challenges with resources they have to hand, a can‑do attitude and always striving for an outcome focused approach within everything that they do.

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ABOUT IBM

IBM’s greatest invention is the IBMer. We believe that through the application of intelligence, reason and science, we can improve business, society and the human condition, bringing the power of an open hybrid cloud and AI strategy to life for our clients and partners around the world.

Restlessly reinventing since 1911, we are not only one of the largest corporate organizations in the world, we’re also one of the biggest technology and consulting employers, with many of the Fortune 500 companies relying on the IBM Cloud to run their business.

At IBM, we pride ourselves on being an early adopter of artificial intelligence, quantum computing and blockchain. Now it’s time for you to join us on our journey to being a responsible technology innovator and a force for good in the world.

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OTHER RELEVANT JOB DETAILS

Job Title

Network Security Automation Engineer

Job ID

135299

City / Township / Village

QUEZON CITY

State / Province

National Capital Region (Manila)

Country

Philippines

Work arrangement

Onsite

Area of work

Infrastructure & Technology

Employment type

Fixed Term (Fixed Term)

Position type

Professional

No Travel

Company

(0891) IBM Solutions Delivery, Inc.

Shift

Rotation

Is this role a commissionable/sales incentive based position?