Network Security Engineer Technical Lead (Hybrid or Remote Work Schedule)

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Position Overview:

We are seeking a Network Security Engineer Tech Lead to join the Security Perimeter team within the Enterprise Network Services of the Information Technology Division. The Network Security Engineer Tech Lead will provide engineering and automation of Firewall/Web Application Firewall on-prem and in the cloud. Other opportunities include automation through scripting, companywide new application implementation and other secure perimeter activities for the Freddie Mac infrastructure and applications across multi-site enterprise cloud and data center environments. This role also includes a monthly on-call rotation and will assist with level 3 troubleshooting.

Our Impact:

We protect the firm internally and externally by engineering and operating network security services enterprise wide.

We run and improve network security services and platforms, collaborate with teams and leadership within IT and with business partners to advance our technical capabilities and provide network security solutions that drive business results

Your Impact:

Technical Leadership and Engineering Management:

• Build a network capability of blending the needs from enterprise wide technical & business groups into a product road map

• Lead, design and collaborate with architecture teams to align with network security services architecture standards.

• Focus on delivering functional blueprints based on patterns approved by and collaborated with Infrastructure Architects

• Mentor Engineers to ensure engagement and advancement of the overall Team

• Develop best practices for engineering and deploying network security services.

Create and maintain a process and automation library.

• Always start from a view of automating as much of the overall process as possible.

• On a continuous basis review task, increase efficiency, and mark tasks for automation/transfer to delivery team.

• Utilize and drive project milestones through Jira to ensure clear communication/expectations with leadership and stakeholder.

Engineering-Driven Compliance & Best Practices:

• Ensure solutions align with regulatory and compliance requirements – specifically NIST, while maintaining scalability to meet evolving business needs

• Engineer solutions with the understanding FM is a highly regulated firm which requires control validation by non-technical team members.

• Utilize a problem-solving approach to design solutions that not only address immediate risks but also future-proof network defenses against emerging threats.

Collaboration and Stakeholder Engagement:

• Collaborate with IT, Operations, End User Support, and software engineering teams to integrate security into every layer while keeping users experience as a key function of the solution.

• Work closely with senior leadership on the selection, design and delivery blueprint of new network security technologies and tools to address evolving threat landscape

Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree in information technology, engineering, computer science, related field, or equivalent experience.

• 8+ years of professional IT experience with implementation and administration of any firewalls and other secure perimeter applications

• Proficiency in scripting/programming languages Python ,Perl, Yaml ,powershell

• Experience of AWS security and CFT

• Experience on VMware NSX Distributed Firewall (DFW),Prisma Access ( Global Protect) ,Micro-segmentation /Zero trust

• Added advantage on Experience with infrastructure automation platform Ansible ,terraform

• Added advantage on Knowledge of CI/CD pipeline

• Linux skills

• Experience with Networking and troubleshooting

• Ability to prioritize work without management direction and provide clear, documented status updates to the management and the team.

• Advanced problem-solving skills and ability to work effectively under tight deadlines.

• Experience in supporting encryption and/or security appliance devices.

Keys to Success in this Role:

• Excellent collaborator and partner

• Spirit for innovation and ability to work in the space of “no longer” and “not yet”

• Ability to quickly comprehend the functions and capabilities of new technologies

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