Network Security Engineer (Locals only)

Infojini Inc; Annapolis (MD); On-site; USD 100,000 - 140,000; Full time

Job summary

Infojini Inc is seeking a Network Security Engineer to work in Annapolis, MD on a contract basis. The role involves overseeing network security configurations and implementations, leading projects, and ensuring timely resolution of security issues.

Successful candidates will hold a minimum of 10 years of relevant IT experience, with specific certifications required. Excellent performance in collaborative and technical environments is essential.

Qualifications

• A minimum of 10 years relevant IT work experience.
• At least 8 years of experience in networking/security field.
• Education in IT related field.

Responsibilities

• Lead and oversee activities to resolve problems and requests.
• Configuration, installation, performance monitoring of network security.
• Develop comprehensive design documentation.

Skills

Complex switching, routing, wireless, software defined networking - Cisco

Firewalls - Cisco (ASA) and Palo Alto

Network Access Control - Cisco Identity Services Engine (ISE)

Intrusion Detection and Prevention – Palo Alto, Cisco

Remote Access solutions – Cisco and Palo Alto VPNs

Education

Palo Alto Certified Network Security Engineer Certification

Professional level networking certification

Cisco System Professional Level Certification

College-level degree in IT related field

Tools

Nessus

Cisco ASA

Palo Alto

Job description

Infojini Consulting is a full service IT consulting, services, and staffing firm with offices in Edison, NJ.

Infojini Consulting is recognized as one of the fastest growing IT services and software development Companies. With a partnership of all major technology vendors, Infojini Consulting has built a strong Government and commercial customer base including fortune 100 companies and most state and federal agencies such as State of North Carolina, State of South Carolina, State of Maryland, State of California, State of Pennsylvania, State of Virginia, State of Washington and many others.

Infojini Consulting is an equal opportunity employer and considers all qualified individuals for employment irrespective of their race, gender, age, color, sexual orientation. We offer an excellent compensation package.

Job Description

Job details mentioned below

Title: Network Security Engineer

Location: Annapolis, MD

Duration: 12+ months contract

Client: Direct Client

Job Description:

Objectives/Responsibilities

The Contractor’s Resource (CR) will be responsible for leading, scheduling and overseeing the activities with other team members to resolve problems and requests in a timely and accurate fashion.

• Configuration, installation, testing, deployment, performance monitoring, troubleshooting, and documentation of network security, utilizing industry best practices for security, disaster recovery and business continuity, change control, and client support
• Assisting in creation of robust network designs
• Act as the primary point of contact and lead security engineer for implementations and provide ongoing support and maintenance.
• Pro-actively identify organization’s requirements, and help design, and engineer implementations that best serve the needs.
• Perform project-based engineering, design, installation and troubleshooting of data security networks.
• Provide assessment, design and implementation services of data and secure networking environments.
• Develop comprehensive graphical and text-based design documentation and effectively manage the implementation process from design to acceptance.
• Assist internal groups through capacity planning, maintaining, monitoring and review of secure data communications networks.
• Lead migrations or assist in a team of engineers who will migrate traditional/legacy network security platforms to current/next generation technologies, and expose customers to the full life-cycle of defense in depth solutions.
• Assist network engineers in troubleshooting critical problems or threat remediation relating to network security products.
• Work with the engineering team to successfully implement configuration guidelines, change management, and standard operating procedures for secure network solutions.
• Lead, schedule, provide guidance and coordinate the activities with other team members to resolve end user problems in a timely and accurate fashion.
• Generate weekly status reports including project progress, key milestones, and tasks accomplished, etc. Host weekly status meetings/calls with team or on as needed basis.

REQUIRED SKILL:-

Education

• A Palo Alto Certified Network Security Engineer Certification (required)
• Industry leader’s networking certification of professional level (required)
• Cisco System Professional Level Certification (preferred)
• College-level degree in IT related field (required)
• At least 10 years of relevant IT work experience with at least 8 years of experience in networking/security field.

Skills/Experience

• Complex switching, routing, wireless, software defined networking - Cisco
• Firewalls - Cisco (ASA) and Palo Alto
• Network Access Control - Cisco Identity Services Engine (ISE), Access Control Server (ACS), ACLs
• Intrusion Detection and Prevention – Palo Alto, Cisco, scripting, regular expressions
• Content Filtering – Palo Alto, Trustwave
• Remote Access solutions – Cisco and Palo Alto VPNs, IPSEC, SSL
• Two-factor authentication solutions - (RSA)
• Authentication standards - (802.1x) in wired and wireless applications
• Scalable routing protocols - (EIGRP, BGP)
• Enterprise Data Center - Cisco SDN ACI
• Certificate Management – PKI
• Vulnerability Management – Nessus, NMAP, Windows, Unix, Linux OS
• Centralized Management – Panorama, Solarwinds