ALUS Industrial Network Security Engineer

Position Title: Industrial Network Security Engineer
MAXIMUM Bill Rate: XX119.39
Estimated Start Date: ASAP
Assignment Length: End of 2024
Est Hours Per Week: 40
Work Schedule Time Zone: 85 MF Central Time
Temp to Hire (Y/N) N
Assignment Location: Houston
Remote or Onsight Onsite

Job Summary:
The Global Infrastructure & Operation Department (GIO) was created to enable high speed execution of
the Group s IT transformation projects and to run global services.
GIO is part of the Air Liquide IT legal entity. It delivers infrastructure services to our BIS (Business
Information System) customers world wide.
The Americas Hub team within GIO is responsible for ensuring the delivery of all GIO services to its
customers across all the Americas (through the 3 Clusters : North America Latin America Airgas) and
their respective Entities encompassing more than 25000 employees.
Within the GIO entity Operational Technology in the Americas Hub enables efficient management and
control of primary industrial sites by supporting reliable and continued data flow from / to the sites and
securing remote access for the Operations Command Center (OCC) and hundreds of users to the sites.
Services include OCC support OCC system management industrial remote system management
industrial remote access security industrial onsite firewall and industrial security monitoring.
Within the Operational Technology Security the mission of the Industrial Network Security Engineer is to
maintain a high level of expertise and performance/availability on security solutions for OCC system
management and industrial remote system management. These solutions are primarily based upon Palo
Alto firewalls HP/Aruba switches BeyondTrust/Bomgar PRA.
The Industrial Network Security Engineer will act as Level 3 for supporting incident/problems processes.
The geographical focus of this role is the Americas Hub however with the ability to foster collaboration
with Global Operational Technology teams across the Air Liquide Hub s in order to promote convergence
and improvement of standards processes and best practices.
This position will report to the Operational Technology Director in the Americas Hub.
Responsibilities
Innovation Management and Service strategy contribution
Have the knowledge of the different technical components of the solutions (from hardware to
software)
Setup & follow the action plan to close & anticipate vulnerabilities
Understand and document the technical requirements for new services or service enhancements
Advise on technology decisions & provide service implementation guidelines
Review & provide input on proposals from an architectural perspective including feasibility
technical viability
Contribute to realize technical implementation relevant to support the strategy of OT and its
Roadmap
Solution design and implementation
Assist in designing the overall solution
Ensure that required capabilities for service development are supported
Lead effort to implement the solution across the different projects
Lead effort to test debug performance analyze and document components around the domain
of expertise
Write technical documentation and procedures
Operations and delivery
Administration/management and monitoring of the platforms conducting daily technical
administrative work to ensure the availability stability and security of the platforms
Support major Operational Technology projects
Create procedures/scripts on system implementation and backups
Monitoring logs and alerts of various sites create automatic reports
Specify/evaluate system/server requirements
Adhere to Air Liquide ITIL change management process
L3 Support and problem management
L3 Troubleshoot root cause analysis on the major incidents/problems
Coordinate problem resolution between teams inside and outside of the OT team
Produces and maintains operational procedures
Contribute to the problem management and Continuous Improvement processes around the
specific platforms. This does include strong contributions with knowledgement management
(procedures knowledge articles etc .)
Overtime may be required to meet project deadlines or to work on Critical Incidents
Competencies and Profile
Experience
Education Requirements
Bachelor s degree in Computer Science or IT security or other relevant area (or equivalent
experience)
CISSP GRID GICSP or similar certifications are a plus
General Requirements
3 to 7 years of experience with at least 3 with network security and 2 with Palo Alto firewalls
Knowledge and knowhow specific to the position
Knowledge on architecture/design/implementation/support of Palo Alto firewalls HP/Aruba
switches Solarwinds Bomgar/SIRA DNS SMTP Splunk Active Directory
Proven experience including handson capacity for troubleshoot and monitor with Palo Alto
firewalls HP/Aruba switches Bomgar/SIRA DNS SMTP
Understanding of the generated logs and security architectures
Good knowledge of standard protocols (SMTP LDAP Kerberos SNMP ...)
Good knowledge of Windows / Linux architectures
Knowledge of AWS security and/or industrial IT security would be a plus
Familiarity with fundamental networking/distributed computing environment concepts; ability to
configure file sharing (NFS/SAMBA or Windows); ability to query DNS records.
Strong Knowledge of Network Design/Implementation.
Familiar with principles practice of system configuration management
Ability to troubleshoot and support technical issues both remotely and onsite using standard
tools and techniques (wireshark nmap powershell event logs netstat ping putty )
Understanding authentication/authorization processes in use at the site local and network
resources and resource sharing
Ability to design architecture and document procedures
Good understanding of service management tools for event management provisioning and
monitoring
Experience with ITSM tool with a preference for Service Now
Fluency in English is mandatory in a multicultural environment. French or Spanish is a Plus
Critical competencies
Able to think creatively & exploit opportunities
A demonstrated ability in successful problemsolving and management of multiple
tasks/priorities. Ability to effectively manage a crisis situation (technical problem)
Strong interpersonal and communication skills
Listening and dialogue to understand needs and problems encountered by users ability to act as
a vendor liaison make presentations to customers or client audiences
Highly efficient written skills (documenting standards process and procedure guides runbooks
ability to write purchase justifications etc )
Strong Organizational Skills and Standardization
Technical transition & documentation skills. Qualitative and quantitative analytical skills with
ability to collect and correlate information and data
Strong ability to learn; follow instructions well
Strong ability to work alone (Independent problemsolving selfdirection autonomy and
organization in order to better manage its perimeter) as well as on a team
Physical Requirements
The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to
successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to
enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.
Spends 70% of the time sitting & 30% of the time either standing or walking while in the office.
Occasionally stoops kneels crouches climbs balances crawls & reaches.
Oral and auditory capacity enabling interpersonal communication as well as communication
through automated devices such as the telephone.
Visual capacity enabling frequent use of computer equipment.
Ability to lift 25 lbs