Location: NYC – 225 Liberty Street (Hybrid)
Job Type: Full-Time
Position Summary
Responsible for engineering and administrating Security infrastructures. Ability to support large enterprise mission critical networks and develop new technology solutions. Provide technical expertise in working with clients and other GS-IT groups on security issues.
Essential Duties and Responsibilities
- Design, implement, and maintain FortiGate firewalls in a Cisco network environment.
- Configure and manage FortiGate security features, such as firewall policies, IPS/IDS, VPN, and advanced routing.
- Troubleshoot network security issues and provide technical support to users.
- Stay up to date on the latest security threats and vulnerabilities.
- Work with other IT teams to ensure the overall security of the network.
- Document network security policies and procedures.
- Manage FortiGate licenses and renewals.
- Administer all network infrastructures -LAN, MAN, WAN, VPN and DMZ’s including production.
- Understand and administer Forintet proxies and its components.
- Support, fault and performance monitoring, improvements, and capacity planning
- Make recommendations to management regarding best practices and meet business requirements.
- Comply with network and firewall Corporate Change Control policies and procedures.
- Must be able to troubleshoot network, proxy, load balancers, firewall, and internet connectivity issues.
- Understanding of Cisco product line -switches, routers, etc.
- Administering of logging and security platforms: Balabit, Tenable, Vectra etc.
- Administering of network monitoring tools - Command, Stablenet, etc.
- Keep thorough and current network infrastructure documentation –Visio, etc.
- Off hours and weekend support required.
- 70% firewall security – 25% network administration – 5% voice support
Experience / Qualifications / Education
- Excellent analytical and problem-solving skills.
- Strong communication and interpersonal skills.
- Ability to work independently and as part of a team.
- Up-to-date on the latest security threats and vulnerabilities.
- Good working knowledge of UNIX (Solaris and Linux
- Understanding of VPN concepts, protocols and implementations
- Network experience with the Financial Industry’s unique requirements –Market Data, exchanges
- Required Fortinet CSS certification (OT Security or Security Operations)
- Over 5 years of experience in a similar position