Our client seeks a motivated Senior Network Security Architect to join their engineering team. If you excel in dynamic environments and are committed to skill enhancement, this role offers an exciting opportunity.
Job Type: Contract (12 months with possibility for extension)
Location: Hybrid in the following cities only - Phoenix, AZ;Palto Alto, CA; Salt Lake City, UT; Sunrise, FL; New York, NY
This position is not eligible for visa sponsorship. No Corp to Corp or 3rd party agencies.
Responsibilities
- Operate efficiently within a highly skilled and agile engineering team.
- Review existing tools, applications, and processes to strengthen current capabilities and identify areas for improvement.
- Assist in providing technical recommendations, documentation, and reporting to support leadership, business, and technology teams.
- Contribute to the design, build, and maintenance of modern on-prem cloud platforms that support agile teams.
- Ensure reliable and predictable deployment and maintenance of distributed systems adhering to security best practices.
- Participate in production support and on-call rotations.
- Be responsible for the stability and performance of critical business services.
- Participate in Agile Sprints and associated ceremonies.
Skills and Experience
- Minimum of 5 years of experience designing and implementing cloud-based enterprise architecture.
- Proficiency working with cloud providers including AWS, GCP, Azure, OCI, Alibaba, Digital Ocean, Vultr, Linode.
- Proven ability to create highly professional, accurate, and comprehensive solutions documentation representing solution architecture, design, implementation planning or other solution lifecycle events.
- Experience in the design and maintenance of modern on-prem cloud platforms.
- Knowledge of reliable and predictable deployment and maintenance of distributed systems following security best practices.
- Demonstrable understanding of technology standards and standards organizations and their relationship to enterprise information security postures.
- Experience implementing, configuring, and managing Physical/Virtual Firewalls, IDS/IPS, ACLs, Security Groups, NACLs, IAM, Segmentation/Blast Radius, DDoS mitigation, FedRAMP IL2/IL4, NIST 800-53/800-171.
- Experience with automation tools such as Terraform, Ansible, Puppet, GIT, Jenkins, and Bash scripting.
- Familiarity with Agile / Sprint based lifecycle and related ceremonies.
Preferred:
- 10 + years of experience in a strategic role associated with information security, privacy, technology architecture, or related field(s).
- CISSP, CISA, CISM, or other related certification.
- Proficiency in Global Data Centers, Corporate office, Public/Private Cloud, and Hybrid Multi-Cloud/On-Prem architectures.
- Proficiency in Internet, VPN, LAN, WAN, SD-WAN, MPLS, Firewalls, Load Balancers, Routing (BGP, OSPF, EIGRP), Switching (VXLAN, 802.1q, MLAG, LACP), Wireless, VoIP, CDN, OTT, IPSec.
- Familiarity with Cisco, Arista, Juniper, Brocade, Palo Alto, F5, A10, Silver Peak vendors.
- Understanding of Well Architected Framework principles, Commercial regions, GovCloud, and Multi-Cloud Interconnectivity.
- Experience with cloud services such as VPC, EC2, ELB, VGW, Direct Connect, Direct Connect Gateway, Transit Gateway, Peering, SiteLink, MegaPort, Marketplace solutions, Compute (Linux/Windows), Virtualization, and Containerization.
