Network Security Lead
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Job Location:
Rancho Cordova, CA - USA
Monthly Salary:
Not Disclosed
Posted on:
10 hours ago
Vacancies:
1 Vacancy
Job Summary
Network Security Lead
Location: Hybrid Rancho Cordova CA or Denver CO
Duration: 12 months
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Key Responsibilities
- Architectural Leadership
- Design implement and maintain global network security architecture across data centers labs offices and multi-cloud (Azure AWS GCP) environments.
- Develop and maintain reference architectures for SD-WAN (Prisma Access) NGFW DNS/DHCP (Infoblox) and VPN platforms.
- Define and evolve network security roadmaps utilizing zero-trust and hub-spoke models.
- Collaborate with cross-functional teams (Infrastructure Cloud InfoSec) to ensure consistent policy enforcement.
- Operational Oversight & Vendor Management
- Lead and manage Managed Service Provider (MSP) for daily network security engineering administration and monitoring.
- Set and monitor performance metrics SLAs and escalation procedures.
- Oversee incident response firewall management certificate/license renewals and SOP execution.
- Optimize privileged access onboarding browser integrations and authentication processes.
- Maintain and update operational SOPs to align with evolving technologies.
- Automation & AI Integration
- Drive adoption of AI/ML for network telemetry anomaly detection and automated response.
- Promote AIOps predictive analytics and zero-touch provisioning to streamline operations and reduce manual work.
- Engineering & Governance
- Provide technical guidance on routing switching segmentation encryption and authentication.
- Enforce security policies and standards; review changes to firewalls ACLs and proxies.
- Conduct security architecture reviews for new projects and cloud integrations.
- Report on security posture incidents and improvements to executives.
- Mentorship & Collaboration
- Mentor engineering staff across Infrastructure and InfoSec teams.
- Align network and security strategies with CISO Cloud Security and SOC leaders.
- Support compliance and audit activities providing required evidence for audits.
- Platform Expertise & Incident Response
- Maintain subject matter expertise in platforms such as Panorama NP Extranet aiSSD and browser integrations.
- Lead root cause analysis and remediation efforts for security incidents following SOPs.
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### Required Qualifications
- Bachelors or Masters degree in Computer Science Engineering or related field.
- 8 years experience in network security or infrastructure engineering.
- 3 years experience in architectural leadership or MSP oversight.
- Expertise in network and security architecture (NGFWs VPNs SD-WAN proxies cloud networking segmentation).
- Proficiency with network automation (Ansible Terraform Python).
- Deep understanding of routing/switching protocols (BGP OSPF EIGRP VXLAN MPLS).
- Experience with Zero Trust and SASE models.
- Strong vendor management and contract governance skills.
- Experience applying AI/automation to network operations and security.
- Excellent communication and leadership abilities.
Preferred Certifications:
- Cisco CCNP/CCIE Security Palo Alto PCNSE AWS Advanced Networking/Azure Network Engineer Associate CISSP or equivalent.
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Summary:
Serve as strategic and technical leader for Solidigms global network security architecture combining engineering expertise with leadership in automation AI and vendor management to ensure a resilient secure and scalable hybrid infrastructure.
Location: Hybrid Rancho Cordova CA or Denver CO
Duration: 12 months
---
Key Responsibilities
- Architectural Leadership
- Design implement and maintain global network security architecture across data centers labs offices and multi-cloud (Azure AWS GCP) environments.
- Develop and maintain reference architectures for SD-WAN (Prisma Access) NGFW DNS/DHCP (Infoblox) and VPN platforms.
- Define and evolve network security roadmaps utilizing zero-trust and hub-spoke models.
- Collaborate with cross-functional teams (Infrastructure Cloud InfoSec) to ensure consistent policy enforcement.
- Operational Oversight & Vendor Management
- Lead and manage Managed Service Provider (MSP) for daily network security engineering administration and monitoring.
- Set and monitor performance metrics SLAs and escalation procedures.
- Oversee incident response firewall management certificate/license renewals and SOP execution.
- Optimize privileged access onboarding browser integrations and authentication processes.
- Maintain and update operational SOPs to align with evolving technologies.
- Automation & AI Integration
- Drive adoption of AI/ML for network telemetry anomaly detection and automated response.
- Promote AIOps predictive analytics and zero-touch provisioning to streamline operations and reduce manual work.
- Engineering & Governance
- Provide technical guidance on routing switching segmentation encryption and authentication.
- Enforce security policies and standards; review changes to firewalls ACLs and proxies.
- Conduct security architecture reviews for new projects and cloud integrations.
- Report on security posture incidents and improvements to executives.
- Mentorship & Collaboration
- Mentor engineering staff across Infrastructure and InfoSec teams.
- Align network and security strategies with CISO Cloud Security and SOC leaders.
- Support compliance and audit activities providing required evidence for audits.
- Platform Expertise & Incident Response
- Maintain subject matter expertise in platforms such as Panorama NP Extranet aiSSD and browser integrations.
- Lead root cause analysis and remediation efforts for security incidents following SOPs.
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### Required Qualifications
- Bachelors or Masters degree in Computer Science Engineering or related field.
- 8 years experience in network security or infrastructure engineering.
- 3 years experience in architectural leadership or MSP oversight.
- Expertise in network and security architecture (NGFWs VPNs SD-WAN proxies cloud networking segmentation).
- Proficiency with network automation (Ansible Terraform Python).
- Deep understanding of routing/switching protocols (BGP OSPF EIGRP VXLAN MPLS).
- Experience with Zero Trust and SASE models.
- Strong vendor management and contract governance skills.
- Experience applying AI/automation to network operations and security.
- Excellent communication and leadership abilities.
Preferred Certifications:
- Cisco CCNP/CCIE Security Palo Alto PCNSE AWS Advanced Networking/Azure Network Engineer Associate CISSP or equivalent.
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Summary:
Serve as strategic and technical leader for Solidigms global network security architecture combining engineering expertise with leadership in automation AI and vendor management to ensure a resilient secure and scalable hybrid infrastructure.
Key Skills
- IDS
- Network security
- Active Directory
- Tcp/IP
- LAN
- Routers
- Windows
- Access Control
- Information Security
- Linux
- Troubleshoot
- Intrusion Detection
- Juniper
- Security Devices
- Dns
