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Optum · 2 days ago

Principal Information Security Engineer

Eden Prairie, MN

Full-time

Remote

Senior Level

$105K/yr - $190K/yr

8+ years exp

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Responsibilities

Maintain application delivery controllers and web application firewalls with a global team of engineers.

Deploy load balancers, configure load balanced applications, and secure cloud and on-prem applications.

Troubleshoot complex layer 1-7 issues and communicate updates to stakeholders.

Execute projects such as load balancer upgrades, application onboarding to Web App Firewalls, and SSL/TLS inspection.

Automate tasks using scripting languages like perl or python and tools like Terraform, Ansible, Chef, Puppet, Jenkins.

Respond to on-call engagements and support off-hour change windows as part of the senior escalation engineer rotation.

Qualification

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IT InfrastructureApplication Delivery ControllersF5 Load BalancersCloud Native ApplicationsCloud SecurityNetwork AppliancesSecurity AppliancesAutomationScripting LanguagesTerraformAnsibleChefPuppetJenkinsWeb Application FirewallsF5 ASMAWAF ModuleHTTPSSL/TLS encryptionDNSSwitchingRoutingApplication SecurityOWASP Top 10DDoSBoT AttacksAPIsCDN Caching Policies

Required

8+ years of experience architecting, supporting, maintaining, configuring, and securing IT infrastructure

5+ years of experience troubleshooting, configuring, architecting, and maintaining application delivery controllers (at least 2+ years with F5 load balancers plus other load balancers such as A10, Nginx, Citrix, AVI, Kemp, HAProxy, Barracuda, etc.)

3+ years of experience securing cloud native applications in Azure, GCP, or AWS with WAF, DDoS, Bot, and API protections using cloud WAAP CDN tools such as Cloudflare, Imperva, Akamai, F5 XC, etc.

3+ years of experience troubleshooting and maintaining other network or security appliances (switches, routers, firewalls, proxies, etc.)

3+ years of experience automating network infrastructure tasks using scripting languages like perl or python to interact directly with platform APIs and/or using tools like Terraform, Ansible, Chef, Puppet, Jenkins, etc.

2+ years of experience securing applications with web application firewalls using F5 ASM / AWAF module

Preferred

Advanced knowledge of HTTP, SSL/TLS encryption, DNS, switching and routing, Application Security, mitigating OWASP top 10 security threats, DDoS and BoT attacks, protecting APIs, and CDN caching policies

Benefits

Comprehensive benefits package

Incentive and recognition programs

Equity stock purchase

401k contribution

Company

Optum

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Optum is a healthcare company that provides pharmacy services, health care operations, and population health management. It is a sub-organization of UnitedHealth Group.

Founded in 2011

Eden Prairie, Minnesota, USA

10,001+ employees

https://www.optum.com

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