Job Description :
Role: Network Security Engineer
Location: NYC, NY
Duration: 6 months + contract
Interview: Phone and Face 2 Face
FINANCIAL Industry experience required.
Qualifications/ Experience REQUIRED:
Bachelor''s degree and at least 8+ years’ experience in Network Engineering and Monitoring with an emphasis on information security and related technology.
Hands on solid experience in implementation of network technologies like switches, routers & firewalls
Experience implementing network based security tools like IDS, IPS, WAF, malkware detection, fraud detection tools like SourceFire, Imperva, FireEye etc.
Experience in network packet brokers (NPB) like Apcon, Gigamon, cPacket and VSS Monitoring etc.
Experienced in acquisition, analysis and correlation of data from various security event sources such as proxy, firewall, IDS/IPS, DLP tools etc.
Experience with SIEM technologies like splunk, arcsight, qradar etc.
Hands on experience in analyzing the data structure/data model pertaining to security event sources like proxy, firewalls, network devices, IDS/IPS etc.
Experience Monitoring and maintaining the network monitoring tools and investigating intrusions.
Experience in Network behavior anomaly detection (NBAD)
Exposure to geography specific Data protections & Privacy regulations and its impact in SIEM implementations is preferred.
Responsible for architecting, engineering, deploying and maintaining network based cybersecurity tools and analytics platforms.
Manage technology and solutions life cycle for security monitoring by working with key stakeholders & management. This includes data onboarding, use case management, metrics delivery, integration with other applications/systems etc.
Manage a large number of cybersecurity use cases for delivery out of the network analytics platform. This requires collaboration with other cybersecurity stakeholders such as SOC.
Ensures that the solutions are engineered according to the architecture & design standards.
Drives the acceptance and adoption of Network Analytics platform by the SOC.
Evaluate new technologies in Network Analytics by conducting proof of concepts and present results of evaluation & recommendation to management.
Information Security certifications such CISSP, SANS, Ethical Hack preferred.