IT Security Engineer​/specialist - Palo Alto​/Firewall & Mcafee

Role Responsibilities

Role responsibilities

The Junior Information Security Specialist will perform any of the following activities depending on business needs:

• Coordinate and perform ISO 27000 process management functions and control testing reporting and activities in accordance with regulatory and departmental policy and procedures.
• Update and maintain control matrices and spreadsheets, and provide recommendations for Information Security Management System.
• Assist in operational and security-related control and risk assessments to ensure compliance to regulatory and statutory requirements, as well as industry specific guidelines, such as PCI DSS, ISO 27000, COBIT and ITIL.
• Develop and document security policies and procedures, training and awareness.
• Assist and contribute to IT Security Governance meetings and activities.
• Ensure business and technical requirements are aligned, and security policies are implemented within an allowed period to meet compliance.
• Develop operational reports and presentations using Excel and PowerPoint.
• Collection and consolidation of evidences to address compliance findings.
• Define indicators of performance and quality metrics and ensure compliance with data related policies, standards, roles and responsibilities, and adoption requirements.
• Manage and implement configuration changes, monitoring, and software updates for client IT Security Infrastructure.
• Analyze, troubleshoot, and remediate issues with various IT security devices.
• Work closely with other IT teams to ensure the availability and security of the client's enterprise.
• Deliver security solutions supporting the office and production connected systems.
• Auditing deployed solutions, providing recommendations, and ensuring security policies and regulations are followed and adhered to for all implemented systems.
• Plan, deploy, harden, maintain, troubleshoot, operate and manage network security solutions such as Palo Alto or similar next-generation firewalls (NGFW), IDS/IPS, Cloud-based security web gateways, Firewall management tools (e.g. Fire Mon, Algo Sec, Tufin), data loss prevention tools, ICS and OT system security requirements, honeypots and network sensors.
• Documentation of logical and physical architecture.
• Follow all the ITIL processes (incident, problem, change) for all items impacting plant operations.
• Create Application and Hardware (System) Lifecycle Plans.
• Work with the ITP management to ensure that a multiyear lifecycle plan is created to support from 1st to 3rd level support including milestones for all known firmware/software versions or functional upgrades and sunset and successor systems.
• Assess and Manage System Requirements and Production program fulfillment.
• Work with the ITP department to determine the current level of performance expected and risk with current process and systems. Create with the business area requirements plans for continuous improvement of the process and systems throughout the plant.
• Identify Automated Solutions which support business process maturity or improvement.
• Define maintenance plans for firmware/software upgrades.
• Work flexibility (travel requirements, work schedule, etc.) and work hour flexibility based on production schedule.
• Day to day working relationships with the IT and Production community and with Volkswagen business units and technology users.

• Experience in Information Security Management.
• Frameworks such as ISO 27000, PCI DSS, HIPAA, NERC CIP, etc.
• CISSP, CRISC, CISM, CISA, and/or GIAC; or comparable certification.
• Network Intrusion Prevention.
• Advanced understanding of IP networks.
• Firewall design/implementation/maintenance.
• Network architecture and design.
• Configuration management.
• System hardening (Windows, SQL, UNIX, LINUX, NETWORK).
• Work flexibility (travel requirements, work schedule, etc.).
• Work hour flexibility is required based on the production schedule.
• Day-to-day working relationship with the IT and Production community, and with Volkswagen business units and technology users.

• Strong written and verbal communication skills.
• Ability to take a "client” focus when engaging with internal departments/customers.