Network Security Engineer – at NASA/JPL
We are seeking a Network Security Engineer in support of our I2S2 Jet Propulsion Laboratory contract, to provide institutional and flight customers with advanced networking solutions and support. As a Network Security Engineer, you will resolve one-off application and hardware integration issues, gather application requirements, implement standards, make best-practice recommendations, and find resolutions to complex issues, to and including mission critical systems resilient network connectivity within campus, and our business partners.
This job includes the following requirements:
- 3+ years of with Palo Alto or Juniper Firewall engineering experience;
- US Citizenship required
- 5+ years of experience in firewall installation, configuration, maintenance, and troubleshooting;
- Practical knowledge of protocols OSPF, EIGRP, BGP, MPLS, VRF, IPSEC, QOS, DNS, VTP, Broadcast, Multicast and GRE;
- Practical working knowledge of Juniper SRX, Cisco ACS, F5 security module, and Palo Alto firewalls;
- Understanding and wide application of advanced principles, theories, concepts and techniques in network and communications engineering;
- Knowledge of applicable industry and/or academic practices and standards for firewalls, WANs and LANs and telecommunication interfaces, with a working knowledge of network security and network security practices, support of a Security Operations Center, network switch and routing protocols, familiarity of network services applications;
- Ability to perform problem identification, reporting, and resolution of task;
- Knowledge of applicable industry and/or academic practices and standards in Virtual Private Networks;
- Working knowledge of NAC 802.1x, SSL decrypt, and Certificate base authentications deployments;
- Knowledge of DDOS mitigation, URL filtering, Proxies, NAC, and SSL decryption;
- Experience with designing high traffic networks and security practices for Data Center Networks, which includes security, traffic engineering, network redundancy, and disaster recovery;
- Multidisciplinary knowledge regularly used in the application and development of advanced principles, theories and concepts in network engineering and operations;
- Experience with network automation via a programming language;
Desired Skills:
- Working knowledge of a programming language like Python, Shell, Bash, Perl, Java, API, Ansible, JSON, SOAP, Ruby, or REST;
- Extensive experience gathering requirements from different business units, stakeholders and engineering teams;
- Recent experience in systems engineering applied to computing or network architectures;
- Achievement in developing breakthrough solutions to challenging technical problems;
- Cross-functional Network Project Management experience a plus
Will:
- Plans, designs, develops, and implements network engineering plans for wide-scale WAN / LAN firewall security schemes for customers;
- Provides advanced knowledge in field in all customer interaction situations to resolve highly complex problems including receipt of specifications, design, test, and response to service requests;
- Performs network systems engineering including performance analysis, maintainability analysis, capacity analysis, and reliability analysis;
- Establishes contingency plans and anomaly resolution plans for complex computer networks;
- Debugs and tests firewalls, plans projects, and performs needs assessments;
- Prepares and oversees cost/benefit estimates, presentations, negotiations, installation, problem resolution, and multi-vendor product integration;
- May provide initial implementation support of networks to assure proper execution and provides resolution for system failures or degradation;
- Forecasts network needs and works with other information systems areas to develop policies and procedures to resolve the most complex and unique technical problems;
- Negotiates system requirements with users and resolves complex problem;
- Performs highly complex root cause analysis;
- Defines systems requirements and resolves highly complex problems;
- Implements networks and/or network applications;
- Applies highly complex network tools and performs analysis of various network technologies and network research;
- Provides problem and incident investigation and recommends resolution for highly complex problems;
- Performs complex and wide-ranging job functions and activities across disciplines;
- Work is evaluated upon completion to ensure objectives and institutional goals have been met;
- Regular use of creativity and innovation to address critical issues;
- Analysis of situation or data requires identification, review and interpretation of highly complex factors as well as decisions as to policies, procedures and practices;
- Exercises discretion and independent judgment in evaluating potential approaches and solutions to critical problems and determining appropriate resolutions;
- Interactions normally involve presenting, validating and analyzing complex information;
- Initiates interaction with colleagues or functional partners outside own organization on a frequent basis;
- Frequent interaction with vendors, industry partners and other NASA centers;
Serves as an essential team member on teams inside or outside organization, project, activity or function.
MORI Associates offers comprehensive fringe benefits including matching funds on company 401K plan. Work-life balance is an important part of our culture!
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