Remote Contract: Network Security Engineer & Firewall

Motion Recruitment; United States; Remote; USD 120,000 - 160,000; Full time

Job summary

Motion Recruitment is seeking a Network Security Engineer for a contract role to join their team remotely, focusing on firewall security, policy analysis, and vulnerability management while supporting EST business hours and coordinating with US-based and offshore teams.

The ideal candidate has 5+ years in network security, hands-on firewall experience, configuration hardening, and governance, risk and compliance involvement.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of Network Security experience.
• Hands-on firewall security experience.
• Network security configuration and hardening.
• VPN and firewall security management.
• Firewall rule and configuration analysis.
• Configuration compliance and control reviews.
• Configuration drift identification and risk remediation.
• Vulnerability management and security monitoring.
• GRC experience and audit support.
• Ability to coordinate remediation across multiple teams.

Responsibilities

• 30% Firewall Security & Policy Analysis.
• 20% Network Security Configuration & Hardening.
• 15% Configuration Compliance & GRC.
• 15% Vulnerability & Risk Management.
• 10% Security Monitoring & Threat Analysis.
• 10% Security Automation & Audit Support.

Skills

Network Security

Firewall security

Policy analysis

Configuration compliance

Vulnerability management

Security monitoring

GRC experience

English fluency

Coordination across teams

Security risk remediation

Tools

Tufin

AlgoSec

FireMon

Skybox

Palo Alto

Fortinet

Cisco

Job description

Motion Recruitment is seeking a Network Security Engineer for a contract role to join their team remotely, focusing on firewall security, policy analysis, and vulnerability management while supporting EST business hours and coordinating with US-based and offshore teams.

The ideal candidate has 5+ years in network security, hands-on firewall experience, configuration hardening, and governance, risk and compliance involvement.