Lead Network Security Engineer
First American
- Santa Ana, CA
- $94,798-152,900 per year
- Permanent
- Full-time
- Leads technical direction in designing and implementing security solutions for corporate technical infrastructure and business applications.
- Participates in all phases of project planning in security service support, including functional requirements, design specifications, testing and quality assurance, implementation and support.
- Leads technical engineering services to support and update existing security systems and works to automate processes related to security implementations, monitoring, and enforcement.
- Investigates, recommends, evaluates, deploys and integrates security tools and techniques to improve our ability to protect corporate assets and infrastructure.
- •Participates in technical risk assessments and security exposure analyses of systems, networks and business applications. Evaluates and implements security devices such as firewalls, IDS, IPS, threat correlation tools, vulnerability management tools, encryption capabilities, etc.
- Analyzes network elements and designs to ensure secure and optimal system and network performance and cost effectiveness.
- Oversees the purchase, installation, and support of security devices.
- Responsible for assessing and managing information security risks to pre-existing current systems.
- Assists in the planning of large scale systems projects through vendor comparison and cost studies.
- Monitors, reports and resolves all security related problems and discrepancies.
- Participates as a member of the Information Security Incident Response Team.
- Interacts with internal and external clients on security requirements, identifies security process and develops
- Develops test plan and implements rigorous testing prior to rollout of new systems into the production environment.
- Leads and mentors members of the Network Security and Security Operations teams.
- Manages weekly and monthly metric reporting.
- Leads weekly meetings and ensures project updates are received as expected.
- Leads Cyber Security incident investigations.
- Required to perform duties outside of normal work hours based on business needs.
- Experience in implementing Information Security technologies and/or processes required.
- Experience in product evaluation and managing vendor relationships required.
- Experience in defining Information Security strategy and integrating security technologies into corporate frameworks. Must have hands on working knowledge of UNIX/AIX, Microsoft NT/2000, firewall multi-layer design and implementation, router access list/packet filtering (CISCO), WANs, LANs, the Internet, Intranets, network protocols and network services (i.e., telnet, ftp, etc.), Intrusion detection systems, Virtual Private Network (VPN), two factor authentication.
- Generally requires a BS Degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Telecommunications, or Electrical Engineering, or equivalent work experience.
- Must have minimum 8 years information security experience. Must have 5+ years hands on experience with networking, intrusion detection, VPN, PKI, Next-Generation firewalls, NAC; Identity management and encryption technologies.
- License or Certification
- CISSP, CISM, or other relevant security certifications.
- PCNSE or another Palo Alto certification preferred.
- AWS Security Specialty, AWS Certified Advanced Networking Specialty, AWS Solutions Architect (Associate or Professional) preferred.