Security Specialist – Cisco Firewall Operations

Security Specialist – Cisco Firewall Operations

Requirements

• Minimum of 5 years of experience in network security design and operations, and network administration.
• Minimum of 3 years hands on experience implementing firewall solutions (Cisco preferred, Palo Alto) for large Canadian or multi-national companies.
• Must have a strong technical knowledge of security operations, security monitoring, network segmentation, security controls relating to IPS/IDS systems, and firewall technologies (Cisco).
• Minimum of 2 years of experience with Platform Security (UNIX/Windows).
• Minimum 1 year of network packet capture and interpretation experience.
• In possession of, or able to qualify for, Canadian federal security clearance (reliability level).

Responsibilities

• This is an operations role responsible for managing and maintaining client’s network security operations. This includes supporting perimeter firewalls, web application firewalls, azure security, and endpoints.
• Deep knowledge and understanding of Azure Cloud native security services with a good to have experience of another cloud service provide (AWS or GCP).
• Maintains policy, procedure documentations, including regular reviews and updates.
• Automate operational tasks to make processes simpler and more robust.
• Planning and implementing infrastructure security activities to enhance operations.
• Implementation of native infrastructure security hardware and software with a focus on network segmentation and inspection of traffic.
• Performing analysis of network security needs that contribute to the design, integration, and installation of hardware and software.
• Analysis, troubleshooting and development of solutions to network / security problems.
• Performing changes in the network following the change management process.
• Administering perimeter security systems such as firewalls, intrusion detection systems, endpoints and web proxy.
• Providing consultation to infrastructure and application project teams on information security designs.
• Integration with corporate WAN, LAN and server architectures and other security programs.
• Travel as required.

Preferred Qualifications

• Minimum Bachelor’s degree.
• Vendor certifications (CCNP, CCIE, PCNSE, AZ-500).
• Industry recognized Professional Security certification (e.g. CISSP).
• Experience working for the Big 4 or Global SI is highly desired.
• Knowledge of cyber defense vendors and product capabilities is desirable.
• Willing to travel as required.
• Experience with deploying Microsoft Sentinel and Defender for Cloud in complex client environments.