Network Security Engineer NEW

$160,000 - $200,000/Yr

Zachary Piper Solutions - Washington, DC

Full-time

Washington, DC

Professional, Scientific, and Technical Services

About the position

The Network Security Engineer will support a government contract in Washington DC, focusing on planning, coordinating, and implementing the organization's information security measures. This role involves analyzing technical requirements, designing firewall and IPS structures, and maintaining the health of security systems while recommending improvements.

Responsibilities

• Plans, coordinates, and implements the organization's information security.
• Analyzes requirements and potential solutions for technical and economic feasibility.
• Design optimized firewall and IPS rule structure and ensures standards are maintained.
• Monitors and maintains health of all firewalls/IPS and recommends improvements.
• Develops and maintains documentation of firewall/IPS procedures.
• Develops and maintains complex schematics relating to network security.
• Researches, evaluates, recommends, designs, tests, and implements new network security technologies.
• Displays expert knowledge of current security tools and practices.
• Under general guidance, provides support to network engineers.

Requirements

• 10+ years of IT experience, required
• Bachelors Degree, strongly preferred
• Hands-on experience on configuration to deployment of Cisco FMC1000 physical and FMC-VMware, Cisco ISE and IPS products.
• Experience managing IPsec VPN, Site-to-Site VPN to Azure cloud.

Benefits

• Cigna Medical
• Dental
• Vision
• Holiday
• 401k
• PTO