Full Time role
Onsite in Overland Park KS or Chicago, IL
need USC only
will customer look at candidates that will relocate? Yes, they will. But must be willing to relocate immediately – not in 2 or 3 months, etc
must have linkedin profiles WITH picture – client is declining any and all who do not have this (LI must at least match CV)
- Fortinet Security
- LAN/WAN network switches
- 10+ years' experience
- NSE7+ certification (or similar certifications)
- Penetration/Vulnerability testing experience
Required Skills/Experience
- 10+ years of work experience as an Information Security Researcher or Engineer working with multiple Fortinet products such as the core products plus FortiSIEM, FortiClient, FortiEDR – NSE7+ or equivalent knowledge.
- Security expert
- 7+ years’ experience in LAN/WAN/Internet services administration
- 6+ years of experience with penetration testing, vulnerability testing, blue/red teaming.
- Practical understanding of tactical application of various compliance frameworks including monitoring and validating compliance.
- Ability to design network and security solutions, effectively utilize Visio, ability to create BOMs (Bill of Materials)
- Strong understanding of computer and network security, protocols, packet analysis, authentication & authorization, security protocols and attack methods.
- Experience with penetration testing and exploitation tools and methods.
- Experience with vulnerability scanners like Qualys, Tenable/Nessus, Nexpose, Whitehat Sentinel, Acunetix or similar.
- Experience with forensic data capture, evidence preservation and data extraction and analysis.
- Functional programming/scripting experience with the ability to develop custom scripts to automate or simplify tasks and data gathering/munging.
- Proficiency with administrative operation, configuration, and debugging/troubleshooting of Linux, Windows, MacOS, Active Directory, Exchange etc. and SSO/MFA technologies.
- Ability to organize & communicate effectively, both written and verbal, with technical and non-technical people across functional teams.
- A BS degree in Computer Science, Cyber Security, other tech-related degree, or equivalent experience.
- CISSP, NSE7+ or similar certification or proven knowledge and experience.
- Knowledge of the following technologies: Routing, Switching, VPN, LAN, WAN, Network Security, Stateful Firewalling, NGFW, Firewall policies, Identity based policies, NAT, IPS, AntiMalware, Botnet, Application Control, DDoS, Web Filtering
- Strong understanding in the following technologies and protocols: TCP/IP, IPv4, IPv6, supernetting and subnetting, DNS, HTTP, SMTP, RADIUS, LDAP, Active Directory, PKI, IKE, Certificates, L2TP, SSL Decryption, SSL VPN, IPSEC, NAT, Stateful Firewall, Firewall Policies, 802.1Q, VLANs, LACP, MD5, SSH, SSL, SHA1, SHA512, 3DES, AES
- Experience with encryption and authentication technologies required
- Strong technical troubleshooting skills desired
- Strong presentation skills
- Strong communication and writing skills. Previous experience on responding to RFP's is beneficial.
- White board skills are beneficial.
- Technical knowledge in Wi-Fi, Load Balancing and Application Delivery, Ethernet Switching, ACI, API, Two Factor Auth, Malware Sandboxes, Mail Gateways, Web Application Firewalling, Cloud (AWS, Azure, etc), SDN, NFV, Virtualization, Centralized Management, SIEM, and Data Center redundancy are considered assets.
- Previously experience to work with telco and large enterprise space.
- Hands-on experience in networking and Strong understanding of common network protocols (TCP/IP, GRE, IPsec, BGP, OSPF, MPLS, VRRP, STP, IPsec, SNMP protocols).
- Hands-on experience with Carrier / ISP Routing in building and managing large-scale BGP environments with publicly routable Autonomous Systems, Route Arbitration, Peering, IRRs, etc.
- Hands-on experience in security including, access and application control, in security products and technologies (e.g., Firewalls, IDS/IPS, DDos, VPN, Web application Firewall) site and content categorization and SSL encrypt/decrypt functions.
- Strong technical and problem-solving skills, including experience in at least one scripting language (Bash, Python, etc.) to develop automated methods to mitigate and remediate network events.
- Experience in network, servers, and systems monitoring (Zabbix, Nagios, etc.) to analyze and diagnose data and identify root causes to network issues.
- Knowledge in server virtualization (VMware, KVM, etc.).
- Knowledge in change management process.
Job Description
Our customer is looking for a Senior Infrastructure Security Engineer to join the Corporate Information Security team. This is a highly technical role, and as a senior position, requires extensive knowledge of many domains in the information security and IT management realm, as well as deep and wide knowledge of the Fortinet fabric, applications, and products. This knowledge extends to all network switch LAN/WAN technology.
Key Responsibilities
- 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. Strong sense of teamwork is required. Cross train with peers in security concepts and best practices.
- A hunger for knowledge sharing and growth are essential in this team.
- Other duties as assigned.
