Security Engineer

Position: Security Engineer

Location: Miami Fl or NYC prefer Miami Hybrid 3 days/wk

Experience: Target Exp Level 8 15-year exp

Job Description:

Job Summary:

Global financial firm with office in Miami Florida is seeking a Security Engineer to be part of local team in Miami. Looking for a hands-on engineer with a solid understanding of Zscaler, Cloud (AWS preferred), Python scripting, and Terraform. You will be responsible for projects including policy enhancement and orchestration across the organization, automation of the security environment, and minimization of its footprint by migrating to the cloud.

4 MUSTS In Order Of Importance:

Zscaler

AWS Cloud exp Azure ok

Python scripting some coding exp at very least

Terraform

HR Job Description: SENIOR SECURITY ENGINEER

Client has a dedicated team that works across the firm to properly balance security with convenience, believing that securing the firm requires a total team effort. Since Cybersecurity is 75% about people and process and 25% about technology, the team is dedicated to creating business value through security solutions. User training/awareness programs, development of governance models, transparent metrics, industry leading technologies and innovative approaches are part of world class information risk and security.

Responsibilities:

As a Senior Network Security Engineer, you will provide leadership and hands-on expertise for a diverse set of network security projects including but not limited to cloud, firewall, WAF and Web proxies.

Lead and support information security projects by researching, documenting, and assisting with the implementation of network security products.

Provide engineering and operational support for network security products and services (new deployments, hardware refresh/upgrades, migrations and feature implementation).

Security policy administration on various network security products.

Work closely with the architecture teams to evaluate the security readiness of new features and functionalities in network security products.

Improve and implement security hardening processes for overall infrastructure security, patch management and documentation.

Mentor and guide other teams in the organization on network security best practices, security vulnerabilities and implementation/enforcement of the compensating controls.

Firewall & Network Security rule design and administration across multiple platforms (Cloud / AWS)

Firewalling / ACLs (Traditional Segmentation)

Zero Trust Network Policy (Micro Firewall & Network Security rule design and administration across multiple platforms:

Network traffic flow analysis utilizing a SIEM platform (Splunk)

Qualifications:

A Minimum 5 years in a hands-on technical experience in implementing Network Security products like firewall, cloud / onsite web proxies and DDoS mitigation solutions

Knowledge of firewalls (Palo Alto FW) preferred

Cloud Security - AWS preferred

Possess a strong understanding of security operations concepts such as perimeter defense, BYOD management, data loss protection, insider threat, kill-chain analysis, risk assessment and security metrics

Have a strong understanding of network protocols

Follows Information Security best practices

Have the desire to learn new technologies, share best practices, and contribute to the broader shared knowledge of a global infrastructure and security team

An ability to self-organize, prioritize activities independently, create documentation and reporting

Prior experience interfacing with business and technology stakeholders

Experience managing stakeholder expectations in the delivery of projects

Enables creative solutions by stimulating ideas through discussion and collaboration

An ability to manage uncertainty well able to assess and act with good enough but imperfect or incomplete information

Have strong written and oral communication skills with the ability to explain technical ideas to non-technical individuals at any level