Professional Services Engineer_Cyber Security

Professional Services Engineer
- Virtual Office

Company Overview

We're currently partnering with a successful Pre-IPO, rapidly expanding global
leader in the white-hot Cybersecurity Software space. Our client is an
award-winning industry leader, providing leading edge security solutions to
global enterprise organizations.



Professional Services Engineer 

The Professional Services Engineer will drive customer adoption and success of
our solutions into their environment. Customer success is achieved by driving
initiatives designed to add business value, dissemination of best practices,
fulfilling a trusted advisor role, education of product capabilities and
engaging in other professional services as necessary.

We are interested in speaking to highly-skilled,
senior level security professionals that have been working in a customer-facing
Cyber Security engineering role or consulting for at least 3 years, and
have developed a proficiency in supporting large scale enterprise application
deployments for 5+ years. This would include hands-on with, firewalls, IDS/IPS,
SIEM, as well as Linux and enterprise deployments.



Duties and Responsibilities:

• Product
  Deployment: deploy security driven products to customers and manage
  the full life cycle of deployment from planning to completion.


• Provide
  value-added consulting services, such as automation processes, best
  practice advice, special projects and integration activities.


• Customer
  Activities: Participate in post-sales customer meetings,
  presentations, requirements gathering, solution design and competitive
  positioning.


• Customer
  Training Work with the customers to ensure they are properly trained
  and leveraging the solution and achieving success.

Background &
Qualifications:

Firewalls:

·        How firewalls work, how they
handle packets and how to audit them.

·        How they make decisions per rule
base and how to configure rule bases, (what they mean).

·        Strength in at least 1 major
Firewall vendor, Palo, Checkpoint, Cisco ASA, Fortinet, Juniper.

·        How to access devices, retrieve
configs, how to read and understand configs.

·        Layer 2 firewalls and Virtual
Firewalls in hardware (Vsys, Vdom, Contexts).

Networking:

·        High level of Networking,
familiarity with Layer 3 networking in large networks.

·        Not just knowing what devices are,
but having worked on configuration, understanding how networking (routing)
works and how networks are put together.

·        Key factors: L3 networking, MPLS,
VRF, Routing rules /protocols etc.

·        It would be good if the person was
very strong in at least one major vendor like CISCO, JUNIPER for Routers.

·        Understands how to access and
configure devices, understands how to read and interpret config.

·        Network Troubleshooting experience,
important (L3 network not LANS).

·        Load Balancers, like F5 – must know
how they work.

Vulnerability Management:

 ·       How to large organizations
scan for vulnerabilities (network scanners, Qualys, Rapid 7 etc).

·        What is life cycle of
vulnerabilities, from detection, prioritization, remediation etc.   
   

Understanding Policies and
Processes:

·        Access controls for security –
process/policy.

·        Standards, NIST, PCI (as applies to
Firewall and Networks).

·        How organizations approach security
policy and governance.

·        Change Management - how it works,
what are processes, how are they automated.

Change Management:

·        Overall processes in
organizations what is manual what is automated.

 Linux System Admin: Must
be VERY strong

•     Setup, interface config, general administration.

•     Iptables.

•     Syslog-ng and syslog concepts in general.





“Nice to have” skills and credentials

•     Strong in Shell Scripting (BASH).

•     Python: Range between medium experience to high experience
and expertise,

•     SQL – MySql, DB Queries, complex queries,
reading/writing data, filtering data,

•     Familiar with REST API/SOAP API – Medium or higher
experience preferred.

·       
Network and security vendor certifications
desirable include CISSP, CCNP. Juniper certs

·       
Other desired security certifications include
OSCP and GIAC

·       
B.S. degree in relevant discipline(s) desired

Our client offers a full benefits package including paid time off, bonus and
stock options. Compensation will be commensurate with experience.