Required Skills: Palo Alto, Cisco
Job Description
Job title: Network Security Engineer
Job Location: Dallas, TX
Work Model: Hybrid
Desired Start Date: 3/1/2025
Job Summary:
We are seeking a Network Security Engineer with 3 to 5 years of experience to join our team. This hybrid role requires a proactive individual who can manage and optimize our network infrastructure, ensuring seamless integration and performance.
Required Skills:
• Firewall (Palo Alto)
• Switching (Cisco or Meraki)
• Routing (Cisco or Meraki)
Responsibilities:
• Install, configure, and manage a highly available and scalable datacenter and cloud networks.
• Design, implement, and maintain robust firewall infrastructure to protect the organization from external and internal threats.
• Monitor firewall performance and manage configuration changes to ensure the security and stability of the network.
• EOSL projects for datacenter switches and firewalls.
• Configure and manage Clienture networking components such as Virtual Network, Load Balancer, ExpressRoute, VPN Gateway, and NSG.
• Manage and configure firewalls (e.g., Cisco, Palo Alto, Fortinet) for optimal performance and security.
• Transforms the organization by leveraging and enabling automation, orchestration, continuous integration and continuous delivery (CI/CD).
• Serves as an advocate for business stakeholders into IT and helps evangelize the role of network engineering technology back to the business
• Presents innovate forward thinking concepts and technology to improve business processes
• Contributes to our positive, team-oriented culture by developing and maintaining cooperative relationships, facilitating the resolution of conflicts, and accepting and providing constructive feedback
Qualifications- Education & Prior Job Experience:
• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Technology, Information Systems (CIS/MIS), Engineering or related technical discipline, or equivalent experience/training
• 5 years of experience in a highly technical professional environment
• 5 years of experience in a Network environment working with route switch, firewalls, VPN, IDS/IPS
• 2+ years of experience in Microsoft Clienture or AWS/Oracle/IBM networking technologies.
• Senior Level experience with Data Center infrastructure solutions: VPN, Cisco (Route and Switch), Palo Alto firewalls.
Preferred Qualifications:
• Master’s degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Technology, Information Systems (CIS/MIS), Engineering or related technical discipline, or equivalent experience/training
• Airline Industry experience
Skills, Licenses & Certifications:
• CCNP – Security, DC, Routing, Switching, CCIE, PCNSE (Palo Alto)
• Microsoft Certified: Clienture Administrator Associate or Microsoft Certified: Clienture Solutions Clienthitect Expert is desired.
• Proven ability to build, cultivate, and promote strong relationships with internal customers at all levels of the organization, as well as with IT counterparts, business partners, and external groups.
• Ability to deploy and execute datacenter and cloud network technologies; firewall technologies, intrusion detection/prevention, micro-segmentation, and software defined network, and software defined WAN.
• Hands on experience with Palo Alto firewalls and Nexus switches.
• Hands on experience in Cloud Networking for Clienture and AWS.
• Extensive experience with Data Center infrastructure solutions: Cisco (Route and Switch), Palo Alto (FW + IDS/IPS functions), Cisco VPN and Zscaler VPN
• Extensive experience with programming/scripting languages and frameworks in support of automation, such as Python or Ansible
• Ability to design Ansible networking playbooks (and/or via Python scripts, REST API) for Palo Alto, Zsclaer, Cisco IOS/IOS-XE/NX-OS
• Have good hands-on knowledge on Panorama and its template hierClienthy.
• Have a comprehensive knowledge on routing protocol BGP (community strings, route maps, route filters. attributes).
• Strong experience in building site to site VPN tunnels for both Cisco and Palo Alto’s platform.
• Strong communication skills and ability to work with business to deliver project timelines.
• Good with tools like Power BI or be able to create dashboards for projects.
• Good in IAC for Cloud and Datacenter deployments.
Years of Experience: 3-5 Years of Experience