Information Security Engineer III

Overview

TekWissen Group is a workforce management provider throughout the USA and many other countries in the world. The below job opportunity is to one of Our clients is an American telecommunications company headquartered in Monroe, Louisiana, that offers communications, network services, security, cloud solutions, voice, and managed services.

Position: Information Security Engineer III

Location: ST PAUL MN 55102

Duration: 6 Months

Job Type: contract

Work type: Hybrid

Responsibilities:

The Role

• This position is a lead role implementing Managed Security Services (MSS) in a Federal Security Operations Center (Federal SOC) environment in a 24x7x365 environment.

• The SOC function is to provide customers with Network and Security Engineering solutions, constant monitoring, protection, prevention, and detection services as well as reporting and incident analysis based on events collected from multiple sources.

• This position will be responsible for providing the technical support to help design and implement the multiple tasks associated with the following federal programs: Networx MTIPS and the follow-on program EIS - MTIPS and MSS.

• The position will also be responsible for looking holistically at Federal SOC technical processes, across all Federal Security Operations and Engineering Teams, to identify opportunities for automation.

• The automation will primarily be leveraging an abstraction layer that will allow for consistent and safe computer command execution across the multitude of security platform types and multiple thousands of security elements.

• This position will also be responsible for training the next generation of Federal SOC Engineers and Analysts so we can scale the digital transformation mindset and skillset closer to the front lines, and ultimately have highly skilled engineers in the Federal SOC automating as many front line functions as possible for scale.

The Main Responsibilities

• Lead team towards the development of new solutions, processes, tools, systems that have company-wide and possibly industry-wide impacts

• Lead the Federal SOC team in the direction of automation and Dev Ops mindset

• Point of contact with senior leadership of customers and contractors for the purpose of creating and presenting innovative long-term solutions, managing key relationships, and maintaining a high level of customer satisfaction

• acts as a resource to develop solutions or handle the most complex tasks for which existing methods and procedures may not apply

• Provides consultation and advice to engineers and management regarding work functions, processes, methods, procedures, and tools

• develops and delivers technical and process training in areas of expertise and innovative areas of technology

• Maintains an industry-wide perspective on emerging and evolving technologies and implementations, in order to ensure corporate directions/strategies

• Candidate is considered a SME in 3 or more of the listed security and technical requirements

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent education with 8+ years related experience

• Candidate must willing to apply for government suitability and/or clearance status

What We Look For in a Candidate

• Federal government for the Networx (MTIPS, MSS) and EIS programs, the candidate must have the following levels of expertise:

• Well-versed in BGP routing protocol and configuration

• Well-versed in MPLS Networks

• On-Call responsibility

• Well-versed in Cisco and/or Juniper routers and switches

• Must have Expert understanding of UTM firewall capabilities (Fortinet, Palo Alto and/or Cisco)

• Must have Expert understanding of IPSEC VPN and Remote Access VPN

• Technical Network architecture and design background

• Ability to translate and summarize technical issues to senior leadership

• Good project management skills to prepare MOPs (Methods of Procedure) for scheduled maintenance involving Client, customer, and vendor groups

• Ability to pull teams together and guide them through the process of isolation complex network issues

• Fortinet NSE7, NSE8, Palo Alto PCNSE, Cisco CCNA, CCNP, CCIE, and/or CISSP certifications

• Experience in Automation orchestration technologies: such as Ansible, Puppet, Chef

• Experience in Coding languages: such as Python, C/C++, and Java

Desired:

• DDoS Mitigation - experience in any DDoS mitigation application is desired

• Arbor background is a plus

• UTM firewall - expertise with all aspects of stateful firewall features and functionality desired

• Expertise desired but not limited to the areas VPN, address translation, URL filtering, content inspection, content reporting, configuration and change management

• Excellent incident reporting skills are desired

• forensics background is a plus

• ability to provide consulting, policy reviews, training, security audits and advisories

• Use of any SIEM (Security Incident and Event Manager) application is desired Splunk experience is a plus

• Knowledge of any IPS applications is desired Sourcefire, SNORT, and /or Fortinet experience is desired

• event analysis via SIEM or vendor application is desired

• Expertise with vulnerability scanning products/knowledge in Tenable and/or Qualys is desirable

• implementation of both internal and external scanning for premise and network based services, identification of vulnerabilities with recommended actions, and deliverables via multiple options (email, web, conference calls, etc.)

TekWissen Group is an equal opportunity/affirmative action Employer (m/f/d/v) supporting workforce diversity.