Network Security Engineer

Company: Columbus Technologies and Services, Inc.
Location: Pasadena
Posted on: February 26, 2021

Job Description:

Full time - Columbus Technologies and Services, Inc. - United States Posted On 11/20/2020 Job Information Job Opening ID 3139 Technology City Pasadena State/Province California 91101 Job Description Must be a US Citizen
Estimated duration of 18 months with the potential for extension or conversion.
W2 with full benefits
Customer and contract specific training will be required and provided.
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Job Description:
We are seeking a Network Security Engineer in support of Jet Propulsion Laboratory, to provide institutional and flight customers with advanced networking solutions and support. As a Network Security Engineer you will resolve one-off application and hardware integration issues, gather application requirements, implement standards, make best-practice recommendations, and find resolutions to complex issues, to and including mission critical systems resilient network connectivity within campus, and our business partners.
--- Plans, designs, develops, and implements network engineering plans for wide-scale WAN / LAN firewall security schemes for
customers;
---Provides advanced knowledge in field in all customer interaction situations to resolve highly complex problems including receipt of specifications, design, test, and response to service requests;
--- Performs network systems engineering including performance analysis, maintainability analysis, capacity analysis, and reliability
analysis;
--- Establishes contingency plans and anomaly resolution plans for complex computer networks;
--- Debugs and tests firewalls, plans projects, and performs needs assessments;
--- Prepares and oversees cost/benefit estimates, presentations, negotiations, installation, problem resolution, and multi-vendor
product integration;
--- May provide initial implementation support of networks to assure proper execution and provides resolution for system failures or
--- Forecasts network needs and works with other information systems areas to develop policies and procedures to resolve the most
complex and unique technical problems;
--- Negotiates system requirements with users and resolves complex problem;
--- Performs highly complex root cause analysis;
--- Defines systems requirements and resolves highly complex problems;
--- Implements networks and/or network applications;
--- Applies highly complex network tools and performs analysis of various network technologies and network research;
--- Provides problem and incident investigation and recommends resolution for highly complex problems;
--- Performs complex and wide-ranging job functions and activities across disciplines;
--- Work is evaluated upon completion to ensure objectives and institutional goals have been met;
--- Regular use of creativity and innovation to address critical issues;
--- Analysis of situation or data requires identification, review and interpretation of highly complex factors as well as decisions as to
policies, procedures and practices;
--- Exercises discretion and independent judgment in evaluating potential approaches and solutions to critical problems and
determining appropriate resolutions;
--- Interactions normally involve presenting, validating and analyzing complex information;
--- Initiates interaction with colleagues or functional partners outside own organization on a frequent basis;
--- Frequent interaction with vendors, industry partners and other NASA centers;
Required Skills:
--- Must be a US Citizen
--- Offer contingent on ability to successfully pass a background check and drug screen
--- 3+ years of with Palo Alto or Juniper Firewall engineering experience;
--- 5+ years of experience in firewall installation, configuration, maintenance, and troubleshooting;
--- Practical knowledge of protocols OSPF, EIGRP, BGP, MPLS, VRF, IPSEC, QOS, DNS, VTP, Broadcast, Multicast and GRE;
--- Practical working knowledge of Juniper SRX, Cisco ACS, F5 security module, and Palo Alto firewalls;
--- Practical working knowledge of Pulse Secure VPN and NAC profiler;
--- Working knowledge of Cloud security and cloud best practices;
--- Understanding and wide application of advanced principles, theories, concepts and techniques in network and communications
--- Knowledge of applicable industry and/or academic practices and standards for firewalls, WANs and LANs and telecommunication
interfaces, with a working knowledge of network security and network security practices, support of a Security Operations Center,
network switch and routing protocols, familiarity of network services applications;
--- Ability to perform problem identification, reporting, and resolution of task;
--- Knowledge of applicable industry and/or academic practices and standards in Virtual Private Networks;
--- Working knowledge of NAC 802.1x, SSL decrypt, and Certificate base authentications deployments;
--- Knowledge of DDOS mitigation, URL filtering, Proxies, CASB, NAC, and SSL decryption;
--- Experience with designing high traffic networks and security practices for Data Center Networks, which includes security, traffic
engineering, network redundancy, and disaster recovery;
--- Multidisciplinary knowledge regularly used in the application and development of advanced principles, theories and concepts in
network engineering and operations;
Desired Skills:
--- Working knowledge of a programming language like Python, Shell, Bash, Perl, Java, API, Ansible, JSON, SOAP, Ruby, or REST;
--- Extensive experience gathering requirements from different business units, stakeholders and engineering teams;
--- Recent experience in systems engineering applied to computing or network architectures;
--- Achievement in developing breakthrough solutions to challenging technical problems;

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