An exciting role has come up with a large technology company. We seek a highly skilled and experienced Senior Network Security Professional (Data Center) with a comprehensive skill set encompassing network security, networks, and virtualization (Private Cloud). The ideal candidate will deeply understand network security principles while demonstrating a broad knowledge base of network technologies.
Requirements
To be considered for this role, you need to meet the following criteria:
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Network Security Skills
- Good understanding of network security architecture in enterprise network environments (Zero trust networks)
- Good understanding of Application layer protocols
- Good understanding of TCP/IP protocol and its troubleshooting from a network security perspective
- Good understanding of DDOS attacks and awareness of DDOS mitigation controls and tools
- Good understanding of IPS solutions, mainly Cisco source fire, Checkpoint IPS
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NextGen Firewalls -
- Must have??good knowledge??and experience of??Palo Alto, Checkpoint -
- Good knowledge and understanding of Palo Alto Panorama
- Good knowledge and understanding of Checkpoint security management appliances
- Optional: knowledge and experience of??open-source firewalls such as OPNsense, PFsense
- Good understanding and experience of managing multi-factor authentication??
- Good knowledge and experience of firewall management tools (Algosec, Tufin )
- Good knowledge or experience of firewall rules review / remediation-based projects
- Understanding of automation in general, any experience or involvement regarding firewall policy change automation will be advantageous
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Virtualization ??? Public / Private Clouds
- Good knowledge and experience of private cloud technologies (VMware, KVM, OLVM)
- Understanding of I.T terms, IaaS, PaaS, IaC
- Understanding of containers, Kubernetes PaaS environments in general
- Good to have public cloud experience across AWS, Azure or OCI
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WAF - Web application Firewalls
- Good understanding of 3 tier application models
- Good understanding of HTTP and other web-based protocols
- Knowledge and experience of implementing F5 Big-IP LTM / GTM and ASM WAF features for financial or other large organizations
- Optional: awareness and knowledge of other cloud based or on-premises WAF solutions
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Web Proxy -
- Knowledge and experience of managing Bluecoat web proxy, DLP, web isolation, AV or any other security controls
- Good to have knowledge and experience of Zscaler web proxy solution
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Networking Skills (Routing/Switching)
- Good high-level understanding of network architectural designs (legacy 3-tiered model vs leaf/spine)
- Good understanding of OSPF / BGP routing protocols
- Load balancers skills (Big-IP F5 knowledge/experience or any other opensource??load balancers (Haproxy, traefik etc.)
- Good understanding of CDN based service delivery using Akamai or Cloudflare
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Governance:
- Good understanding and experience??of change management within a major global Financial Organization??
- Good understanding and experience of ITIL framework relevant to incidents and problem??management
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Management / Monitoring:
- Good understanding of industry best practices to plan and configure baseline configurations for network security devices
- Good understanding of device monitoring via SNMP/ICMP using Solarwinds, NAGIOS, Icinga or other similar NMS tool
