Principal Network Security Defense Engineer

Principal Network Security Defense Engineer

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree or four or more years of relevant work experience.
• Six or more years of relevant work experience, demonstrated through one or a combination of work and/or military experience, or specialized training.
• Experience with networks, 4G/5G wireless network functions or virtualization technologies like Openstack and Kubernetes.
• Strong leadership and mentoring abilities, with experience guiding and developing teams.

Responsibilities

• Building healthy relationships across the Operations, Engineering, and Planning organizations to better understand the current and future landscape of the network.
• Discovering, identifying, and conducting inventory of all network assets and asset information (model, version, etc.) in your respective area of responsibility.
• Building a deep understanding of the network assets and the roadmap to quickly assess the impact of vulnerabilities and identify End-of-Life/End-of-Support hardware/software.
• Developing a baseline of normal operations and implementing threat detections to alert of deviations to proactively identify potential cyber threats.
• Developing incident response protocols to quickly identify, contain, and resolve network security incidents and threats.
• Understanding the current state of cybersecurity and improving the security posture through the implementation of the Network Security Fundamentals (Access Management, Situational Awareness, Configuration Hardening, Vulnerability Mitigation).
• Ownership and accountability for the network security scorecard and drive increased maturity, visibility, and subject-matter expertise.
• Ensuring that the security controls planned for the Networks are operating effectively.

Preferred Qualifications

• Ability to work with diverse stakeholders including highly technical teams, business owners, and executives.
• Proven track record of managing and delivering results.
• Leadership experience as a subject matter expert.
• Experience with Splunk or other data analysis tools.
• Experience with HSS (for Home Subscriber Server), the Home Location Register (HLR), and other applications as part of the Subscriber Database Management (SDM)
• Network Security certifications such as CISSP.
• Familiarity with Identity and Access Management (IAM) solutions.
• Demonstrated organization and project management skills.
• Knowledge of technical product and systems development lifecycle within a large global enterprise environment.
• Effective written, interpersonal, and verbal communication skills.