CDW · 1 day ago
Senior Cyber Security Engineer -Fortinet, Palo Alto
LA Metro Area
Contract
Onsite
Senior LevelCDW is seeking a Senior Cyber Security Engineer with expertise in Fortinet and Palo Alto technologies. The role involves designing and building enterprise-class security systems, maintaining software to protect sensitive information, and addressing security gaps within the organization.
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Hiring Manager
Susan Schmidt
Responsibilities
Design and build enterprise-class security systems for both production and corporate environments
Use and maintain software, such as firewalls and data encryption programs, to protect sensitive information
Check for vulnerabilities in computer and network systems
Recommend security enhancements to management or senior IT staff
Proactively seek security gaps with respect to current and projected business direction and spearhead solutions to address those gaps
Design and contribute heavily to network architecture including firewalls, WAFs, network segmentation, VLANs, VPNs, and DoS/DDoS mitigation
Create solutions that enhance cloud security using available cloud controls/products, third party products, and/or custom-developed systems
Understand corporate authentication and authorization systems including AD, LDAP, ADFS, Azure MFA and how to design secure corporate systems with them
Understand corporate enterprise tools such as Microsoft Office 365 (A5)
Develop security standards and best practices for the university
Innovate new security systems to address the unique needs of the platform
Lead multi-disciplined teams though security initiatives and projects
Review and approve security architecture for new projects or changes to existing systems
Qualification
Required
Strong firewall and cybersecurity experience (Fortinet, Palo Alto)
Experience with firewall replacements, rule migrations, high-availability setups, and VPN reconstructions
Design and build enterprise-class security systems for both production and corporate environments
Use and maintain software, such as firewalls and data encryption programs, to protect sensitive information
Check for vulnerabilities in computer and network systems
Recommend security enhancements to management or senior IT staff
Proactively seek security gaps with respect to current and projected business direction and spearhead solutions to address those gaps
Design and contribute heavily to network architecture including firewalls, WAFs, network segmentation, VLANs, VPNs, and DoS/DDoS mitigation
Create solutions that enhance cloud security using available cloud controls/products, third party products, and/or custom-developed systems
Understand corporate authentication and authorization systems including AD, LDAP, ADFS, Azure MFA and how to design secure corporate systems with them
Understand corporate enterprise tools such as Microsoft Office 365 (A5)
Develop security standards and best practices for the university
Innovate new security systems to address the unique needs of the platform
Lead multi-disciplined teams though security initiatives and projects
Review and approve security architecture for new projects or changes to existing systems
Experience working with various NIST compliance standards
Must be detail oriented; able to detect cyberattacks and watch for minor changes in performance
Ability to respond to security alerts and uncover and fix flaws in computer systems and networks
Able to effectively communicate information security needs and potential threats to technical and nontechnical audiences within the university
Expert knowledge in managing Fortinet, Palo Alto, or similar next gen Firewalls
Solid experience managing a virtualized environment using HyperV, Vmware or similar
Expert knowledge of access logging, centralized logging, and monitoring/alerting of security log events such as ELK or Splunk
Knowledge of practical encryption methodologies and practices within an enterprise
Experience with securing Infrastructure As a Service Platforms such as Azure or AWS
Detailed knowledge of network and infrastructure security issues and considerations
Expert knowledge of incident response, threat modeling, and mitigation
Expertise in identifying security design gaps in existing and proposed architectures and recommend changes or enhancements
Company
CDW
At CDW, we know how to make technology work so people can do great things.
Founded in 1984
10001+ employees
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Funding
Current Stage
Public CompanyTotal Funding
$58.74M2015-08-01Post Ipo Equity· $58.74M
2013-06-27IPO
2008-07-31Series Unknown
Leadership Team
Christine Leahy
President & CEO
Sanjay Sood
Chief Technology Officer
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