This is a contract position for a Network Security Engineer to support and maintain enterprise network infrastructure across multiple sites and data centers. Based in Marlborough, Massachusetts, this role offers a 6+ month engagement and requires participation in a 24x7 on-call rotation, with travel of up to 25%.
Responsibilities
- Manage enterprise firewalls, including rule creation, policy reviews, security hardening, and change management
- Configure, monitor, and troubleshoot routing and switching infrastructure
- Support multi-site network environments and remote locations
- Perform vulnerability assessments and network security scans
- Manage centralized logging, monitoring, and alerting systems
- Maintain security patching for firewalls, routers, switches, network appliances, and monitoring tools
- Administer application delivery and load-balancing platforms
- Provide support for remote sites and data centers, including "smart hands" support for network and infrastructure equipment
- Rack and stack network hardware
- Upgrade IOS on networking equipment
- Manage network backup and recovery processes
- Participate in disaster recovery activities
- Monitor system performance, availability, and capacity
- Investigate and resolve network or infrastructure outages
- Review system and application logs
- Troubleshoot hardware and software issues
- Work with vendors to resolve technical issues and support compliance initiatives
- Ensure compliance with NERC CIP standards
- Create and maintain network diagrams, topology maps, configuration documentation, and operational procedures using Visio
Qualifications
- Required
- Bachelor's degree in a related field or equivalent combination of education and experience
- 3+ years of experience in Network Engineering, Network Security, or Infrastructure Support
- Hands-on experience with firewalls, routers, and switches
- Knowledge of routing protocols and TCP/IP networking
- Experience with VLANs, DNS, DHCP, and SNMP
- Familiarity with VPN technologies
- Experience with network monitoring and logging tools
- Understanding of network security best practices
- Experience with vulnerability scanning and remediation
- Knowledge of backup and recovery processes
- Proficiency with Visio for documentation
- Strong troubleshooting and analytical skills
- Excellent written and verbal communication
- Ability to work independently and collaboratively
- Experience supporting teams across multiple time zones
- Comfort working in fast-paced environments with competing priorities
- Preferred
- Enterprise firewall administration experience
- Experience with load balancing and application delivery platforms
- Familiarity with Syslog and centralized monitoring tools
- Packet capture and traffic-flow analysis skills
- Disaster recovery planning and execution experience
- Experience with configuration management and change control processes
- Network testing and automation knowledge