Sr Engineer - Cyber Security

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• Provide thought leadership on Network Access Control System strategy, policy, monitoring, alerting, reporting, and blocking.
• Provide subject matter expertise to management, business areas, and IT Teams as well as develop and enhance NAC and Firewall policies based on Network Security.
• Cybersecurity Standards, regulatory requirements and analysis of business processes and workflows.
• Provide expert level troubleshooting and a great understanding of the technology features related to NAC, Palo Alto Firewalls, Threat Prevention, VPN and cloud firewalls, security groups.
• Manage day to day activities such as security related changes, documentation, audit requests and rule base optimization of firewalls, network access control and other security controls.
• Identify security risks and work with security and partner teams to report and lead the remediation efforts.

• Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, Computer Information Science, Engineering or related field or Three (3) years of experience in a related occupation.
• Skills:
  
  Experience must include:
  • 3 years of experience with Routing, Switching, 802.1x, VLAN, VPN, LAN, WAN, network, cloud Security;
  • 3 years of experience with Network access control (Cisco or Fore Scout);
  • 3 years of experience in Maintaining Firewalls & Threat Prevention rules, signatures and policies;
  • 3 years of experience in Maintaining Network Access Control systems;
  • 2 years of experience supporting, maintaining cloud firewalls, security groups;
  • Experience with packet captures and solid troubleshooting skills, including reading packet captures;
  • Experience with OSI Model and demonstrate how each layer works;
  • Experience programming/scripting languages (e.g., Python, Go, Java, etc.).

• This is a hybrid position whereby the employee will work both from home and from the aforementioned office address. Hence, the employee must live within a reasonable commuting distance of the aforementioned office address.
• This position does not require travel.
• If offered employment must have legal right to work in U.S.

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Ally is an equal opportunity employer committed to diversity and inclusion in the workplace. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to age, race, color, sex, religion, national origin, disability, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, pregnancy status, marital status, military or veteran status, genetic disposition or any other reason protected by law.

In accordance with the Americans with Disabilities Act, if after review of the position expectations, you believe that you may need a medical accommodation to fulfill the duties of this role, please email  with details of your accommodation request.

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