Network Security Engineer

Job Category: IT
Job Type: Full Time Remote
Job Location: Annapolis-MD

Pay: Salary based on experience  |  Type: Full time  |  Hours: M-F 8:30A – 5:00P*

Location: Remote in Annapolis, MD 21401**

Looking for a new, exciting and phenomenal career! Phenom, LLC is a WOSB Management Consulting company providing a variety of support services to our government and commercial clients. Come Be Phenomenal with Us!

We’re looking to hire one (1) Network Security Engineer for a government client.
*Position is contingent upon contract award*

Job Duties:

  • Pro-actively identifying organization requirements, and helping to design, and engineer implementations that best serve the needs.
  • Performing project-based engineering, design, installation and troubleshooting of data security networks.
  • Providing assessment, design and implementation services of data and secure networking environments.
  • Developing comprehensive graphical and text-based design documentation and effectively managing the implementation process from design to acceptance.
  • Assisting internal groups through capacity planning, maintaining, monitoring and review of secure data communications networks.
  • Leading migrations or assisting 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.
  • Assisting network engineers in troubleshooting critical problems or threat remediation relating to network security products.
  • Working with the engineering team to successfully implement configuration guidelines, change management, and standard operating procedures for secure network solutions.
  • Leading, scheduling, providing guidance and coordinating the activities with the other team members to resolve end user problems in a timely and accurate fashion.
  • Generating weekly status reports including project progress, key milestones, and tasks accomplished, etc.
  • Hosting weekly status meetings/calls with team or on an as needed basis.
  • Lifting personal computers, printers, scanners, and other equipment associated with a standard computer workstation.

Education:

Associate degree in Information Technology (IT) related field is required.

Years’ Experience Required:

Individual is required to have ten (10) years of technical experience in IT networking and network security.

Individual should have five (5) years of experience in the following:

  • Palo Alto Networks next generation firewall services.
  • Intrusion Detection and Prevention with Palo Alto networks.
  • Content Filtering Palo Alto networks.
  • Virtual Private Networks using Palo Alto network systems.

Individual should have four (4) years of experience in complex switching, routing, wireless with Cisco Systems.

Three (3) years of experience in Reverse Proxies, Load Balancing with A10 networks is needed.

Two (2) years of experience in Network Access Control – Cisco Identity Services Engine (ISE), Free Radius, and Access Control Lists (ACLs) is also needed.

General experience with the following is required:

  • Implementing multifactor authentication solutions with Microsoft.
  • Authentication standards – (802.lx) in wired and wireless applications.
  • Scalable routing protocols Enhance Interior Gateway Routing Protocol (EIGRP), Open Shortest Path First (OSPF), and Border Gateway Protocol (BGP).
  • Enterprise Data Center implementing Micro segmentation.
  • Certificate Management, Public Key Infrastructure (PKI).
  • Vulnerability management using Nessus, NMAP, Windows, Unix, Linux OS.
  • Experience with Packet/Protocol Analysis using Opnet, Riverbed, Wireshark, and taps.
  • Hands-on mid-expert level experience.

Experience with Centralized Management using Panorama and SolarWinds.

Excellent verbal communication skills.

Ability to communicate effectively, and to establish and maintain effective working relationships with peers, end-users, and vendor development staff, as well as, all levels of management and judicial personnel as necessary.

Certification/License:

Active Certifications:

  • Palo Alto Networks Certified Network Security Administrator (PCNSA).
  • Cisco Certified Network Professional (CCNP) Enterprise or Security Certification.

Certifications issued within the last four (4) years:

  • Prisma Certified Cloud Security Engineer (PCCSE) Certification from Palo Alto Networks.
  • Palo Alto Networks Certified Network Security Engineer (PCNSE) Certification.
  • Cisco Certified Internetwork Expert (CCIE) in Enterprise Infrastructure or Security Certification.

Software Skills Required:

  • PAN-OS
  • Linux OS
  • Riverbed
  • IOS 
  • NXOS

Location:

100% remote work available

*On-site support may be required to manage outages, security threats, or critical initiatives. If support is warranted, contractor must be able to report on-site within four (4) hours.

Maryland Judiciary Information Systems

189 Harry S. Truman Parkway

Annapolis, MD 21401

Hours:

**Monday through Friday, 8:30am to 5:00pm (EST) with the flexibility to extend coverage hours to meet deadlines. Depending upon project requirements, individual must be able to work a flexible schedule to include evenings, nights, weekends, and holidays. Individual must be available to provide on-call operational support as required outside business hours.

Travel:

This position shall be required to travel approximately 10% each contract year. Travel will be within the state of Maryland and may require arranging local lodging and accommodations.

Additional Information:

Must be Vaccinated against COVID-19 – proof must be provided upon hire.

US Citizenship Required

Skills test may be required

Background check required

NDA must be signed

LOI maybe Required

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