Network Security Engineer - Palo Alto & Cisco Firewalls, F5, Cloud Security

Position : Network Security Engineer - Palo Alto & Cisco Firewalls, F5, Cloud Security

Location : Englewood, CO & Phoenix, AZ (On-site from Day 1)

Job type- Contract

Work-Experience : 4-6 Years of total IT experience with significant experience in managing group of professional to deliver IT Security services for client based environment.

Type of Experience :

• Administer and support F5 appliances throughout the organization.
• Configure and support application security policies via the F5 ASM and APM security modules would be an added advantage.
• Creating implementation plans, LTM, GTM, and ASM configurations, TMOS code upgrades, and deployment of new load balancing builds for F5 load balancing technologies.
• Requesting and installing PKI server certificates.
• Experience writing and troubleshooting iRules.
• Knowledge of http protocol versions, headers, methods, and status codes.
• Excellent understanding of LTM configuration (VIPs, Persistence, SNAT, SSL, etc.).
• Ability to troubleshoot connection issues and services on F5 appliances.
• F5 Traffic Management Operating system, CLI commands, and Route Domains.
• Candidate must be good with Palo Alto, Cisco firewalls and Multi-Domain Security Management
• Expertise in Site-to-Site VPN for all platform- Cisco ASA, Firepower, Palo Alto, VPN Concentrator, etc.
• Experience should include security policy development, security education, Network Penetration testing, Application vulnerability assessments, risk analysis and compliance testing.
• Knowledge of IT Security technologies, Operating Systems, Database, routing and switching, and endpoint security solutions
• Knowledge of information security standards (e.g., ISO 17799 / 27002), rules and regulations related to information security and data confidentially (e.

g., FERPA) and desktop, server, Application, database, Network security principals for risk identification and analysis.

• Exposed to best practice design & Implementation methodology
• Identifies,isolates and resolves network security problems
• Experience with Problem and Change Management processes and applications.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills. Technical Certification are advantage
• Excellent leadership skills and teamwork skills. Results oriented, high energy, self-motivated.
• Palo Alto policy management (making changes to the ACLs, Objects, policies)
• ASA policy management (making changes to the ACLs, Objects, policies)
• Exposure to Palo Alto & Cisco Firewall products .

Certifications

• Certifications in IT Security will be preferred (CISCO CCIE security)
• F5 Certified Big-IP Administrator (F5-CA) will be an added advantage.
• Certification like CISSP will be an added advantage.

Areas of Responsibility

• Validating the initial request and finding the basic information (ex : IP Addresses, Port number, Application owners, contact details)
• Knowledge of troubleshooting tools, such as : tcpdump, ssldump, openssl, QKView, logs, curl, Wireshark.
• F5 OS upgrades, backup and restores.
• Managing F5 appliances in HA configurations.
• Scheduling call for gathering Peer IP, NAT IP, Real IP (IP involved in the encryption domain), Protocols and Service Port information for building tunnel.
• Filling up the information / details received on the VPN form and collecting the BAA / other standard security documents (if needed)
• Coordinating with Network operations team related to routing the NAT IP, vendor end IP / s which are involved in the tunnel.
• Preparing the scripts / config to building the tunnel.
• Raising CRQ and following up of approvals from change managers, Perimeter Governance team, Site leadership, Application Owners and Change Management team
• Implementing the tunnel change on the firewall along with Network data team for routing the vendor NAT IPS on CSH side.
• Scheduling call with vendor and requester for troubleshooting the connectivity related issues between the tunnel peers.
• Involving CSH and vendor side Application team, Server team along with vendor end technical person (Network / Security).
• Hypercare support, validation calls & Closure
5 days ago