[Remote] Network Security Engineer - Senior

Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Leidos is seeking a Sr. Network Security Engineer to join their AGUN Migration team. This role involves supporting the Army’s global wide area network and security infrastructure, focusing on secure network solutions and firewall migration support.

Responsibilities

• Operate and maintain secure network solutions operated as a centralized enterprise capability for the United States Army
• Partner with key stakeholders and technical experts to perform legacy environment discovery, assessing current capabilities, configurations, and requirements to provide network firewall migration support for the Army global network
• Analyze and understand complex firewall security zones and policies with the ability to transform policies between multiple vendor firewall devices while meeting mission requirements
• Support secure access solutions leveraging zero trust network access (ZTNA) including support for creation of new access policies and maintenance of existing policies
• Integrate capacity planning and scaling of network and security stack environments into the overall operational support processes and staff
• Collect, investigate, and identify network resource management strategies and techniques to meet capacity and performance requirements
• Work with information assurance teams and the AGUN cybersecurity service provider (CSSP) to ensure compliance to DoD standards to assist with maintenance of the network security posture
• Document designs, diagrams, drawings, and technical narratives using wiki technologies and common diagram and drawing tools

Skills

• Must currently possess and be able to maintain an active DoD SECRET security clearance
• Minimum of a Bachelor's degree with 10+ years' experience or Master's degree with 10+ years of experience (additional years of directly applicable experience may be accepted in lieu of a degree)
• Require active DoD IAT Level II (i.e. Security+) certification or equivalent prior to start. Must obtain and maintain an approved Computing Environment (CE) certification applicable to the supported technology environment within six (6) months of hire
• Expert understanding of networking and virtualization of firewalls including VSYS in a multi-tenant environment
• Demonstrated experience with networking concepts such as LAN, WAN, BGP, TCP/UDP, IPSec, VPN, Routing(L2/L3), and firewalls in a virtualized environment
• Demonstrate experience in one or more of the following enterprise network management tools such as Palo Alto Panorama, Cisco Prime, Cisco DNA, or Junos Space
• Demonstrate experience in system hardening of network infrastructure to include DoD STIG implementation
• Must have experience in working with two or more of the following vender network technologies: Cisco, Juniper, Palo Alto, Dell, RAVPN, Global Protect, or AppGate
• Experience with the following protocols: SFTP, SSH, SCP, MPLS, SNMP, NTP
• Must be able to work as part of a team to execute troubleshooting and resolve complex network security issues
• Must have excellent written and verbal communication skills
• Must be willing to work non-standard shifts to accomplish network migration objectives and goals
• Must be able to interface with customers
• Must be willing to travel up to 10% of the time
• Army/DISA migration experience
• Hands on experience with Palo Alto Next Generation Firewalls (NGFW)
• Knowledge and use of NetSecOps technologies including git, Gitlab CI/CD, Ansible, Terraform, Puppet, and network element managers
• Working knowledge and understanding of Python
• Demonstrate expertise in design and improvement of complex and geographically enterprise networks
• Expert knowledge of US Army security requirements for network infrastructure

Benefits

• Competitive compensation
• Health and Wellness programs
• Income Protection
• Paid Leave
• Retirement

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