Network Security Specialist Job Description
Network security specialist
provides cyber Security policy support for a broad range of needs, including Assessment & Authorization, system risk analyses, and cyber security best practices.
Network Security Specialist Duties & Responsibilities
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Sample responsibilities for this position include:
Provide global operational ownership for network security infrastructure & operations (firewalls, proxies, content filtering, load balancers, VPN gateways, IDS, IPS, ), enforcing standards, policy compliance and running day-today operations
Develop, maintain and improve existing/new security technologies, processes and governance to effect a proactive security monitoring/detection capability
Enforces security governance by monitoring and administering security technologies (IPS/IDS, Firewalls, DDoS Protection, Anti-Virus, Server Patching, Web-Filtering, NAC, Data Loss Prevention, Proxy and E-mail filtering, identity management system and tokenization)
Gather and understand network security requirements, controls, policies, and threats by consulting with other internal security experts, 3rd party sources, and suppliers on current and future threats, mitigations, and services
Lead the identification of opportunities and development of recommendations to eliminate risk, improve service capability, and reduce cost
Create network security technology infrastructure architectures in support of business and technical initiatives
Supply thought leadership regarding network security hardware and software technologies and infrastructure architecture
Verify appropriate security solutions are developed and implemented for network infrastructure components
Assist in the development and enforcement of hardware and software standards appropriate for the network security environments
Communicate and share network subject matter and architecture blueprints to internal and external business and technology partners to encourage their understanding, involvement and development
Network Security Specialist Qualifications
Qualifications for a job description may include education, certification, and experience.
Licensing or Certifications for Network Security Specialist
List any licenses or certifications required by the position: PKI, II, CISSP, CCNP, CCNA, DODD, CISCO, IAT, CCSP, DOD
Education for Network Security Specialist
Typically a job would require a certain level of education.
Employers hiring for the network security specialist job most commonly would prefer for their future employee to have a relevant degree such as Bachelor's and Master's Degree in Computer Science, Technical, Engineering, Education, Information Technology, Information Systems, Information Security, Network Security, Computer, Management
Skills for Network Security Specialist
Desired skills for network security specialist include:
Global cyber community
Roles of major organizations how they interrelate and interact
Shortcomings in this structure
Firewalls
Security concepts
ITIL best practices
Processes
Web connectivity and protocols
Cyber policy & issues
Protocols
Desired experience for network security specialist includes:
Track time allocated to initiatives and other activities
Manage and prioritize workload, look for opportunities to succeed and exceed expectations
University, College degree or equivalent experience with Network infrastructure and Security or a related field
Minimum 5 years working with network protocol analysis and deep packet inspection
Minimum 8 years working with security on large scale enterprise networks from a technical and architectural perspective
University, College degree or equivalent experience with Network infrastructure and DNS, DHCP, BIND, LOAD Balancing or a related field
Network Security Specialist Examples
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Network Security Specialist Job Description
Job Description Example
Our company is looking to fill the role of network security specialist. If you are looking for an exciting place to work, please take a look at the list of qualifications below.
Responsibilities for network security specialist
- Build pipeline and manage sales cycles in the assigned accounts
- Drive virtualization adoption and identify new opportunities in the assigned accounts
- Assist in performing preventative maintenance of system, and provide guidance and mentoring to BROADCAST IT system specialist
- Perform demand maintenance on the system as needed to enable all BLAN users to in turn meet the needs of their customers
- Configure VPN on Checkpoint Firewall for Client-to-Site VPN using pre shared key
- Development and tracking of project KPIs including
- Technical proficiency in security-related hardware and software
- Provide security consultation, and governance of security approvals
- Implementing security improvements by assessing the current environments
- This position may require the ability to work a shift schedule if needed
Qualifications for network security specialist
- Minimum 8 years working directly with enterprise networks from both technical and security perspectives, primarily in a F5, Palo alto and Cisco based network
- A strong Network Security Specialist that provides 2nd or 3rd level support to Operations group, mainly Load Balancing, DNS/DHCP IP management and support
- Bachelors degree in IT related field (Computer Science, IS, Telecom, etc)
- Strong presentation skills the ability to build and present high quality presentations to executive audiences
- 6+ years of experience in related network, security or software industry
- Experience leading a virtual team of professionals in sales campaigns that include sales executives, field SE’s, Inside Sales, Field Marketing, Services
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Our innovative and growing company is looking for a network security specialist. To join our growing team, please review the list of responsibilities and qualifications.
Responsibilities for network security specialist
- Add new features enhance attack and fuzzing frameworks (i.e., test engines)
- Develop a communication plan to deploy the patches to the production systems
- Produce high quality oral and written work, presenting complex technical matters clearly and concisely with audiences ranging from peers to Sr
- Responsible for preparing, coordinating, managing, and tracking Interim Authority to Test (IATT), Authority to Operate (ATO), and Plan of Action and Milestone (POA&M) requests and approval credentials issued by the Authorizing Official (AO), System Authorization Package and Change Requests for initial and recurring authorizations
- Provides information and recommendations regarding network security and installations , and develops and maintains process and procedure documentation
- Safeguard information system assets by identifying and solving potential and actual security problems while providing timely incident resolutions in alignment with departmental SLAs
- Investigates and/or reviews alerts, violations and exceptions to security controls by conducting periodic audits and helps close gaps identified by 3rd party security audits such as PCI, vulnerability and penetration tests
- Provide security related out of hours and on-call emergency support, as defined by the team's operational procedures
- As the SME, is current with information security trends and provides threat intelligence for intrusion techniques, vulnerabilities and social engineering
- Protects systems by defining access privileges, control structures, and resources
Qualifications for network security specialist
- Minimum 3 years experience with Cisco equipment (Nexus, Catalyst, ASA, UCS) - SAN technology
- Bachelors Degree in Computer Science, Information Systems or related fields or equivalent experience
- Cisco Certified Network Associate (CCNA) but prefer higher
- Diagnosing problems, root cause analysis
- Understanding of TV environment
- Clear understanding of client service relationships
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Our company is looking for a network security specialist. If you are looking for an exciting place to work, please take a look at the list of qualifications below.
Responsibilities for network security specialist
- Works with external and internal auditors in the provision of evidence and remediation of findings
- Administration access via identity management system, creating, issuing, and monitoring user profiles, passwords, user security groups, AD, LDAP, Radius, two factor authentication and any other system usage accounts and access codes
- Defining technical strategies, architecture standards, and design methodologies for
- Must act as an escalation point for Tier2 to deal with any issue when required
- Perform troubleshooting and diagnosis of complex enterprise security device incidents
- Work with Design Engineer, Project Engineer and Project Manager on customer transition, implementation, or transformation projects
- Serves as subject matter expert (SME) on customer security products and services
- Collaborate with Security Engineering and Project Management to create custom solutions for assigned customer
- Must understand how proposed architectural changes will impact the customers’ business and be able to articulate outcomes to technical and non-technical audiences
- Will have responsibility of taking ownership of assigned tasks, resolve tasks within assigned shift or correctly transition incident to oncoming shift if not resolved, track task to resolution
Qualifications for network security specialist
- Strong knowledge of fundamental networking/distributed computing environment concepts including routing, switching, load balancing, VLANs, STP
- Ability to use Microsoft Office applications and computer databases
- Professional Degree or Diploma qualified in Networks Engineering, Telecommunications or related discipline
- Use of Check Point software blade technology eg
- University Degree, preferably in a relevant domain
- Expertise in Cisco CCNP-Security
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Our innovative and growing company is hiring for a network security specialist. Please review the list of responsibilities and qualifications. While this is our ideal list, we will consider candidates that do not necessarily have all of the qualifications, but have sufficient experience and talent.
Responsibilities for network security specialist
- Work with enterprise security device vendors to resolve complex incidents, replace defective hardware, and receive software patches/fixes to resolve incidents
- Provide on-site support, if located on or near customer premises
- Assess vendor vulnerability reports against existing customer devices
- Primary responsibility will be providing Incident, Change and Problem Management support for large enterprise security environments composed of multiple security vendor products in a 24 x 7 X 365 Converged Security Operations Center
- When performing incident management once assigned to an Incident ticket, the Engineer will take ownership and follow/track the issues to resolution and/or handoff the issue successfully when the shift ends
- Will engage and work effectively with technical staff members (network teams, server teams, application teams, third party vendors, ) on a variety of security vendor products as required to resolve customer incidents / issues
- You will troubleshoot all issues by using available tools including, but not limited to, vendor specific solutions, log files and in-house custom scripted solutions
- Troubleshoot security-related issues
- Performs secure network design
- Designs and Integrates enterprise security network and internet technical controls for multiple products or projects for the IT security perimeter, internal network boundaries and off network systems
Qualifications for network security specialist
- Serves as critical communications link between the business unit, IS core team, and vendor providing IS services related to the area of expertise
- Initiates assessment, approval and reports the status of all project requests submitted to vendor
- Receives and translates strategic business initiatives into IS initiatives and supporting programs
- Monitors application or technical resource usage and mitigates situations which may cause usage to exceed approved, authorized levels
- Monitors service levels, researches and escalates deviations to appropriate levels
- Participates in planning and delivery of security aspects of application or technology development projects
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Job Description Example
Our company is growing rapidly and is looking to fill the role of network security specialist. If you are looking for an exciting place to work, please take a look at the list of qualifications below.
Responsibilities for network security specialist
- Performs other duties and support special projects as assigned
- The Specialist Information Security Engineer may have supervisory responsibilities
- Leads the development and definition of security product architectures, specifications and intrusion or data loss techniques
- Enterprise firewall operations, technical support, troubleshooting and service requests
- Enterprise intrusion prevention and intrusion detection systems (IPS/IDS) operations, technical support, troubleshooting and service requests
- Providing network security related consulting for both internal departmental technical teams and university-wide customers with a diverse range of technical knowledge and experience
- Network security solutions, planning and consulting in support of cloud services/SaaS, related implementations and technical support for customers and organizational units utilizing cloud services
- IT service management, processing and optimal resolution of information security-related service requests, problems and incidents
- Functioning as a member of the Information Security Office on information security related projects
- Onboarding of new firewall customers, information security focused service level agreements and conducting regular firewall rules reviews with technical points of contacts across the enterprise
Qualifications for network security specialist
- Ability to manage incidents as they occur by working with multiple third party vendors to ensure maintenance and support is carried out effectively among all parties
- Management skills to manage projects, resources, risk, vendors and change
- Bachelor's degree and 7 years of directly related professional level experience
- Advanced knowledge of Firewall & next Generation Firewalls technologies
- Prefer experience with Cisco ASA and Palo Alto platforms
- Advanced knowledge of IPS/IDS technologies