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Job title

Network Security Engineer

Company Assevero
Wage Not specified
Location United States, District of Columbia, Washington
Employment type Full Time
Education Not Specified
Year Experience 1 - 2 Years of Practical Experience
Travel None
Published on 9/24/2008
Description
CLIENT INFORMATION
The client is an information technology focused on servicing the needs of contractors to the Federal, State and Local Government. Their mission is to apply earned expertise in information technology and business management to help their clients achieve their mission. They are located in Washington, DC.

RESPONSIBILITIES
The candidate will configure and maintain the complex security operations for network systems for our customers. The candidate will be a key member of a Security Operations Center. The position will provide security engineering, analysis, and management consulting in support of the clients applications, networks and systems. The candidate will analyze Enterprise application and email systems, LAN and WAN systems, including planning, designing, evaluating, selecting operating systems and counter measures. The candidate will be responsible to maintain and expand client relationships through delivery of high quality work. The candidate should have excellent organizational, leadership, team building, and technical qualifications.

REQUIREMENTS
All candidates must meet the following minimum requirements:

3+ years experience

Provide weekly statistics to upper management *Develop and implement Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs) for a Security Operations Center *Provide management with correlation analysis of logs produced by the various network security and network filtering system logs.

REDHAT Linux and open source email systems skills required.

Install, integrate and manage anti-spam filters, WebSense URL filtering system, outbound and inbound TCP/IP packet inspection systems.

Install, configure and administer intrusion prevention systems (IPS) and intrusion detection systems (IDS). *Install, configure and manage firewall proxy and packet filtering systems.

Provide immediate response to network security alerts from the CIRT or network monitoring systems.

Provide daily, weekly and monthly reports as required by management on breaches in security and overall network security posture.

Apply patches and implement upgrades to assigned network security systems within the timeframe specified by the service level agreement *Install, configure and administer two-factor authentication implementations i.e. RSA SecurID tokens on VPN and network authentication systems.

Configure and monitor secure remote login implementations i.e. SSH *Make security enhancement recommendations to management.

Required to respond 24x7 when assigned on-call duty.

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS
Although not required, the following experience and qualifications are desirable:

Certified Information Systems Security Professional (CISSP)

Active Secret or Top Secret clearance

B.S. or M.S. Degreedf-tc

Experience/Skills


Other desired skills:
Network Security Engineer