Senior Firewall Architect & Enterprise IT Network Infrastructure Engineer

Morton Salt - Overland Park, KS

Full-time - Senior

Overland Park, KS

Food Manufacturing

About the position

The Senior Firewall Architect & Enterprise IT Network Infrastructure Engineer at Morton Salt is a senior-level technical role focused on enhancing the organization's information security and IT management. This position requires extensive knowledge of the Fortinet fabric and various network technologies, including LAN/WAN and Wireless Access Systems. The role involves assessing current infrastructure, improving security systems, and collaborating with internal teams to ensure robust cybersecurity measures are in place.

Responsibilities

• Assess and document current network LAN/WAN/WiLAN infrastructure and architect a future run state that meets organizational goals for approval, to be followed up with full execution.
• Maintain and improve infosec systems to provide maximum uptime, scalability, continuity, functionality, and integration with the Fortinet Security Fabric and third party/fabric-partner tools.
• Identify gaps in infosec infrastructure security and privacy capabilities, working with internal teams and developers to remedy and improve our systems and products.
• Understand and improve the completeness and visibility of global log/event data while delivering useful dashboards, alerts and automation integration to the Incident Response (IR), Computer Security Incident Response Team (CSIRT) and Security Operations Center (SOC) teams.
• Perform Blue/Red exercises against our infrastructure to validate event parsing, alerting fidelity, incident veracity and SOC response.
• Serve as an internal subject matter expert to assess cyber threats and to secure the organization by leading in IR, TH, re-architecture, and remediation efforts.
• Work with SOC team to identify visibility gaps, system usability issues, and to deliver infosec tooling improvements via configuration, parser improvement, or by raising bugs to development teams.
• Develop, implement, and communicate vulnerability mitigation strategies to IT and development teams.
• Identify, document, and monitor tactics, techniques, and procedures used by threat actors targeting Fortinet and the broader industry. Proactively research new attack vectors that may affect Fortinet infrastructure and applications.
• Develop strategies, evaluate solutions, design, and implement tools, processes, and controls to validate and ensure that security and privacy are designed into Fortinet infrastructure and applications while adhering to policy, compliance, and governance requirements.
• Be part of a global distributed team to share knowledge, workload, and assignments.

Requirements

• Extensive knowledge of information security and IT management.
• Deep and wide knowledge of the Fortinet fabric, applications, and products.
• Experience with network switch LAN/WAN technology including Wireless Access Systems.
• Ability to assess and document network infrastructure.
• Strong understanding of cybersecurity threats and mitigation strategies.

Nice-to-haves

• Experience with incident response and security operations center (SOC) processes.
• Familiarity with vulnerability management and remediation efforts.
• Knowledge of compliance and governance requirements in cybersecurity.

Benefits

• Health insurance coverage
• 401k retirement savings plan
• Paid holidays
• Professional development opportunities