Lead Cloud Network Security Engineer

Job Title :

Lead Cloud Network Security Engineer

Location : OH - Columbus

OH - Columbus

What you'll do :

The Lead Cloud Network Security Engineer spearheads complex IT Initiatives, designing, implementing, maintaining, and triaging enterprise network security infrastructure and services.

They will guide a small team of engineers, influencing their contribution while working independently. Working closely with IT leadership, they will deliver engineering roadmap initiatives, drive continuous improvement and maturity.

In addition, the Lead Cloud Network Security Engineer and team are responsible for creating, and maintaining architecture diagrams, standard operating procedures, and other support documentation for their functional areas.

They will participate in an on-call rotation and complete planned service-impacting activities outside of normal business hours in line with change management processes. Some travel may be required.

What we are looking for :

Responsibilities

• Team leads a small group of engineers, developing the engineering roadmap, defining workstreams, and delegation.
• Plan, design, deploy and mature network infrastructure, services, and processes to meet business needs.
• Deliver annual OKRs & KPIs for service availability, capacity, and performance management.
• Provide escalation-level support to our incident, problem, and change management processes.
• Collaborate with IT Governance during assessments and audits, providing evidence to support the control framework.
• Procure and evaluate bleeding-edge technology solutions and present recommendations.
• Lead complex IT projects e.g., greenfield / brownfield deployments, vendor to vendor migrations, mergers & acquisitions.
• Drive standardization, reduce needless complexity and challenge convention.
• Create and maintain comprehensive engineering documentation.
• Ongoing proactive maintenance of network infrastructure & services.
• Participation in business continuity and disaster recovery planning, testing, and maturity.
• Participation in operational support 24x7 on-call rotation as required.
• Other duties as assigned.

Required Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, or a closely related field.
• 9+ years Enterprise IT experience with evidence of ongoing professional development.
• Proven leadership, organization, and mentorship skills with demonstratable experience.
• Professional-level certifications with Azure, AWS, Cisco, Palo Alto, etc.
• Extensive cloud network security experience within Microsoft Azure.
• In-depth experience with Palo Alto, Cisco Firepower next-gen firewalls.
• In-depth experience with Cisco Identity Services Engine (ISE).
• In-depth experience with Forcepoint ONE SWG or similar.
• In-depth experience with Cloudflare CDN.
• Expert knowledge of enterprise networking, IP routing, packet switching, data flow analysis, etc.
• Extensive experience supporting mission-critical, highly regulated networks within finance or healthcare.
• Extensive experience supporting security frameworks & controls for FFIEC, PCI, SOX, CIS, NIST, ISO, etc.
• Extensive experience supporting solution architecture design within IT & business projects.
• Extensive experience operating within an ITIL ITSM organization with a background using ServiceNow.
• Extensive experience with diagramming software e.g., Microsoft Visio, Lucidchart.
• Experience using tools such as SolarWinds, Netbrain, LiveAction, ThousandEyes, AppDynamics, ELK, etc.
• Excellent communication skills, directly interfacing IT leadership, business stakeholders and technical teams.
• Experience scripting in Python or PowerShell.

Benefits you’ll love :

We offer all the important things you'd want like competitive salaries, an ownership stake in the company, medical and dental insurance, time off, a great 401k matching program, tuition assistance program, an employee volunteer program, and a wellness program.

In addition, you’ll have the opportunity to bolster your business knowledge, learning the ins and outs of how successful companies operate and manage their finances, giving you invaluable hands-on experience to help grow your career!