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Find out why is the employer of choice for contractors! Join and enjoy our generous employee benefits! We are currently seeking a Network Security Engineer to join our client s team onsite in Houston, TX. This will be a 12 month contract opportunity. Scope of Activity and Responsibilities:
- Handle first point of escalation for all technical and process issues
- In depth understanding to implement & troubleshoot network security products i.e. Cisco and Palo Alto Firewalls & IPS, Network Access Control, F5 Web Application Firewalls, SkyHigh Web gateway, Ivanti VPN
- Understanding of IT-OT security & best practices
- Support for New Technology Rollout or Transform Project
- Support for enabling new features in existing Infrastructure (mass roll-out)
- Maintain and update CMDB
- Periodic review of network security controls to improve security posture
- Participate in improvement projects and replacement activities
- Support various projects from Network security perspective
- Act as PRIMARY or focal contact for any Network security related issues
- Perform first check in case of incidents
- Prepare network or infrastructure Visio topology diagrams, write Standard Operating Procedures, maintenance plans and provide status reports as required, participate in data calls and other operational and maintenance tasks
- Ability to provide the RCA for major outages
- Liaise with service desk to create and follow-up tickets
- Submit incidents and change requests & adhere to SLA of the same
- Focal contact for all OEM network devices for support issues
- Incidents tickets and service request ticket resolution within agreed KPI's
- Analyze vulnerability and compliance reports received from the scanning team and remediate in line with client procedure for network platform vulnerabilities
- Able to travel for business requirements to client sites in US locations
- Minimum 8+ Years of experience managing Network security infrastructure operations
- Past expert level experience working with multi-vendor environment and supporting various network security technologies such as Cisco & Palo alto firewalls & IPS, Cisco NAC, McAfee web proxy, F5 as WAF, Pulse secure VPN etc.
- Vendor Security Certifications, CCNP or CCIE Security
- Proven communication skills when working with other technical towers to work out issues
- Strong leadership skills when troubleshooting across multiple vendor platforms and working out technical issues