Senior Firewall Engineer

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Senior Information Security Engineer/ Firewall Engineer

Omaha, NE 68102

Hybrid

Summary of the Job:

• The Sr. Information Security Engineering is an individual contributor role within the Information Security department.
• The engineering team is responsible for driving security strategy and direction, developing and executing roadmaps, developing and maintaining security policies and strategies, developing re-usable solutions, and acting as subject matter experts in the services and solutions provided to the organization.
• The Sr. Engineer reports to the Director of Information Security Engineering responsible for managing the team.
• The Sr. Engineer is responsible for maintaining security policies, developing solutions, and acting as subject matter expert in safeguarding client’s enterprise systems.
• The role provides preventative, detective, and corrective controls to company information and computing to maintain security, integrity, and accessibility of data.
• Builds and maintains strong relationships with multiple business and technical teams and ensures that the technical security strategy is aligned with those teams’ objectives and the overall business strategy.
• Actively participates as a project team member and/or project team leader if necessary. Information Security subject matter expert on a wide variety of departmental and enterprise-wide projects and initiatives.
• Maintains a deep level of expertise in multiple technical domains (e.g., firewalls, intrusion detection/prevention, malware prevention, web content filtering, application security, email monitoring and controls, etc.) and provides/contributes to thought leadership in these areas.

Job Responsibilities:

• Assist IT staff and end users with technical problems and implementations relative to data and computer system security and access controls
• Detecting and responding to security violations, and assisting auditors and reporting status of audit issues and managing security-related projects.
• Be prepared to handle threats directed against enterprise networks, hosts, and data on a 7 x 24 x 365 basis.
• Development and execution against visions, strategies, and roadmaps
• Creation and maintenance of security policies, standards, and security patterns
• Development of architecture approaches and solutions in the security space, including consulting to the business and IT teams on security requirements and risk management
• Ensuring the architecture teams acts as subject matter experts and high level support for complex issues
• Develop and maintain critical vendor relationships with key strategic vendors on products and consulting.
• Assist ISO in Planning, forecasting, and managing capital spend for the team.
• Provide guidance and direction to leadership on key security issues
• Contribute to the development of security awareness materials relevant to area of responsibility
• Participate in engagement and project oversight
• Maintain knowledge and compliance of all industry relevant regulatory requirements.
• Leads or participates in projects and other activities involving the use of security technologies related to the protection of Enterprise systems and data.
• Participates in the planning, development and implementation of data and system security controls.
• Conducts technical security risk assessments and participates in development and execution of remediation.
• Consults on security direction, maintaining a focus on assurance of enterprise information assets.
• Analyze gaps between current and target security architecture.
• Develops and implements strategies to close identified gaps in security architecture.
• System, process, and procedure improvements
• Present security status and project status to management.
• Support for other Information Security Teams as assigned.
• Performs other related duties incidental to the work described herein.

The Ideal Candidate for This Role:

• Excellent communication and customer interface/relationship skills, as well as the ability to effectively coordinate and work with other departments.
• Extensive knowledge of industry and Government…