at Teksystems in Chicago, Illinois, United States
Job Description
Description:
Develop and implement security controls, policies, and procedures to protect our networks, systems, and data. Be familiar with zero trust principles to network architecture, ensuring secure access and minimizing attack surfaces. Leverage your knowledge of cloud services and best practices to secure cloud-based applications and infrastructure. Collaborate with the network team to ensure secure configuration and management of firewalls and security groups to prevent unauthorized access and monitor traffic. Engage in regular security assessments, vulnerability scans, and penetration tests. Design and document best-practice security procedures, standards, and guidelines for other teams or business units. When needed, analyze traffic, investigate alerts, set policy and work with other teams to investigate and mitigate security events. Work with managed services partner to continue to expand log ingestion, build additional alarms, and maintain infrastructure reliability and stability. Identify new cybersecurity risks and work with the team to develop mitigation plans. Assess and provide gap analysis of existing tools and controls to determine areas of increased risk and action those items through remediation. Participate and assist team through Tabletop exercises, documenting gaps and maintaining until resolution. Partner with other departments and business units to implement security solutions including project & change management. Advocate security awareness and teach secure behavior and methods. Perform technical risk assessments, triage security testing results and manage security response actions. Work closely with IT on the development of security metrics, assisting in compliance audits, and continuous security improvements. Assist in compliance activities such as external audits from customers, regulatory compliance projects, and overall information security reviews. Technology Stack (required) – Palo Alto Technology Stack (not required) – Zscaler Cloud Security Gateway – M365 E5 Product suite – Rapid 7 (vulnerability management) – Cisco switches and routers: 3K, 7K, 9K Catalyst series IOS, Nexus – Ethernet technologies: spanning tree, vlans, trunking, channeling, multilayer switching – IP routing protocols: OSPF, BGP, RIP, HSRP – Juniper Routers – Load balancers – F5, KEMP, NetScaler
Skills:
security, firewall, network security
Top Skills Details:
security,firewall,network security
Additional Skills & Qualifications:
Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science/Engineering/Information Security or equivalent experience. Minimum 2 years Network Infrastructure and 1 year information security engineering experience. Understanding of zero trust networking principles. Understanding of cloud services and security features. Firewall management background , including overseeing the policy management, VPN controls, and traffic analysis processes. Self-motivated and capable of managing tasks independently. Strong written and oral communication skills. Experience working in a team-oriented, collaborative environment.
Experience Level:
Intermediate Level
About TEKsystems:We’re partners in transformation. We help clients activate ideas and solutions to take advantage of a new world of opportunity. We are a team of 80,000 strong, working with over 6,000 clients, including 80% of the Fortune 500, across North America, Europe and Asia. As an industry leader in Full-Stack Technology Services, Talent Services, and real-world application, we work with progressive leaders to drive change. That’s the power of true partnership. TEKsystems is an Allegis Group company.
The company is an equal opportunity employer and will consider all applications without regards to race, sex, age, color, religion, national origin, veteran status, disability, sexual orientation, gender identity, genetic information or any characteristic protected by law.
