Information Technology Security Specialist

Job Tittle: Specialist, Information Security Systems Engineer

Location: Melbourne, FL (Onsite)

Job Description:

Client is searching for talented experienced Information Security Systems Engineering professionals to join the client Network Security Engineering Team comprised of Information Security Systems Engineers (ISSEs) supporting managed network infrastructures for federal government customers.

• This position requires weekend, after hours support, and on-call rotations to meet program requirements.

Essential Functions:

• Act as primary engineering support to network security operations for the testing and evaluation of new Security products and services.

• Supervise the technical work of junior security engineers to perform systems engineering design, testing and implementation of network security infrastructure and services.

• Perform lifecycle testing and operational support on Service Oriented Architecture (SOA)-based security architectures to maintain compliance with customer-tailored National Institute for Standards and Technology (NIST) security controls.

• Perform enterprise security gateway access control, baseline configuration management and system performance testing to ensure requirements compliance.

• Develop, maintain and publish network security technical documentation in accordance with client Systems Engineering processes.

• Manage and maintain enterprise configuration and provide internal and external (customer) tier 2/3 technical support for the following major systems:

• Web Application Firewall (WAF)

• Intrusion Detection Systems (IDS)

• Global and Local Load Balancer

• Next generation firewall

• API Gateway

Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Engineering, Computer Science, IT Security or related field, and minimum 4 years related experience.

• Minimum of 2 years of experience in the network security engineering field performing the specification, selection, evaluation, testing, deployment and operation of security devices including but not limited to Firewalls, Routers, Switches, IDS, WAF, VPN technologies, etc.

• Ability to obtain and maintain a FAA public trust clearance

Preferred Additional Skills:

• Experience in application and compliance of customer tailored NIST and FISMA controls and policies.

• Experience collecting system logs and event data and performing engineering analysis to determine system security function, performance and compliance.

• Experience developing, configuring and maintaining Linux and Windows Operating Systems (OS).

• Prior federal telecommunications and network security experience is a plus.

• CompTIA Security+ certification.

• CCNA or CISSP certification.