Department Summary
The Cybersecurity team enables the client to achieve its mission by providing governance, oversight, and support of operational resiliency and asset safeguards in a relevant, timely and data-driven manner.

Working together with IT, we review the current cyber threat landscape and lend our expertise to help the company understand its security posture and act on the highest priority risks.

The Cybersecurity team takes a proactive approach to security by focusing on the cyber risks the company faces. Our methodology and framework synthesize current legal, regulatory, and operating mandates with client’s business goals and operations. By taking this information and focusing on the cyber risks unique to individual Lines of Business (LOB), Cybersecurity helps client’s LOBs make informed decisions about where to invest their resources.

Position Summary
The Cybersecurity IT Solutions Engineer, Expert is a highly organized, thorough, security-minded problem solver focused on the protection of *** information system assets against compromise and cyber-attacks. The successful candidate is responsible for planning, implementing, deploying, and maintenance of security solutions to ensure the stability and security of *** infrastructure for both on premise data centers and cloud deployments. They will have extensive knowledge and broad functional experience with Application Delivery Controllers (ADCs), IDS/IPS, Firewalls across a wide range of complex architectures, platforms and mediums. This position will help in the secure deployment and administration of network solutions in a mission-critical, 24/7 environment.

The successful candidate must be able to implement high-level designs, provide constructive feedback and input to architects, and update operations documentation for any new configurations or procedures resulting from changes to production environments. They must also document all work for metrics and billing reporting using a designated change management or request system.

Qualifications
Minimum:
• 6 years of Network Security, Solution Engineering, or Network Design/Engineering experience
• BA or BS degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Information Technology, or related discipline, or equivalent experience
• 3 years of experience implementing F5 Application Delivery Controller solutions in an Enterprise environment, specifically the LTM, GTM modules
• 1 year of experience managing security policies for Web Application Firewall

Desired:
• 5-10 years of experience designing and implementing F5 Application Delivery Controller solutions in an Enterprise environment, specifically the LTM, GTM, ASM, and APM modules
• 1 -3 years of experience creating, deploying and managing security policies for the F5 Application Security Manager (ASM/WAF)
• Relevant, hands-on experience with at least 2 of the following technologies:
PKI/Certificate Management
DNS
Infoblox (IPAM, DNS)
• Experience in the Utility Industry and meeting audit requirements for NERC and WECC

Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities:
• Demonstrated team player with strong and effective customer care skills
• Experience with F5 products in highly available and on-prem, public/private cloud environments
• Experience with F5 Big-IP Local Traffic Manager (LTM), Global Traffic Manager (GTM/DNS), Access Policy Manager (APM), and Application Security Module (ASM)
• Understanding of network security concepts, including segmentation and defense-in-depth strategies
• Experience with automation using scripting languages (Python, Perl, BASH shell scripting, etc)
• Experience deploying, maintaining, optimizing, and troubleshooting with F5 products in highly available, enterprise-level network environment with minimal down time
• Ability to work with IT personnel at all technical levels, ranging from end-user and application developers to Architects, Solutions Engineers, and Project Managers to meet aggressive project deadlines

Job Responsibilities
• Install, configure, and maintain network security hardware, software, devices and appliances in support of the client on premise data centers and cloud deployments.
• Prepare network or infrastructure Visio topology diagrams, write Standard Operating Procedures and maintenance plans, and provide status reports as required.
• Participate in troubleshooting calls and other operational and maintenance tasks.
• Assist with technical issues, project management, design, analysis, and implementation of network security solutions as needed.
• Develop and execute mitigation plans for technical issues.
• Prepare periodic maintenance plans and comply with change management procedures.
• Maintain detailed knowledge of company network and technology standards.
• Work closely with other IT groups to ensure systems are maintained in an efficient manner, and communicate all issues, changes, outages, and maintenance in accordance with processes, procedures, and policies.
• Responsible for technical support and administration of critical infrastructure network components
• Be available to be on call to support the technology and business