Network Principal

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Ottawa, ON., (CAN.), Hybrid or Remote

Thales has a vacancy for a Network Principal who will be responsible for all aspects of Network infrastructure operations. May be a SME in some domains, but is expected to have full professional knowledge of network infrastructure concepts and company objectives to resolve a wide range of issues in effective and sometimes creative ways, in all of the following domains. As an advanced engineer, you are expected to do these things with little technical direction and with only general guidance on new assignments.

This position requires direct or indirect access to hardware, software or technical information controlled under the Canadian Export Control List and /or the US the Export Administration Regulations (EAR). All applicants must be eligible or able to obtain authorization for such access.

• Handle tickets in Service Now, read architecture diagrams, and construct rules based on those diagrams.
• Firewalls and network filters, in both Enterprise, Stores, and cloud networks. Intrusion Prevention policies
• Networking Protocols/Concepts (Routing(OSPF, BGP), VLAN, Sub-netting, Load balancing, TCP/IP, DNS, HTTP, TLS, SSH)
• Site-to-site and remote-access VPN connectivity.
• Network Access Control.
• Authentication, Authorization and Accounting (to include multi-factor authentication). Web access proxy servers and URL filtering
• Network Security policy creation, exception documentation and approval.
• Provide suggestions to team lead/manager in creating your professional development and training plan.
• Work on projects assigned to you, in effort to advance partnership opportunities between Network Security team and other business areas.
• Work with senior engineers to define network security requirements for current and future state end-to-end architectures and platforms to advance security controls and the security posture of the business.
• Assist senior engineers in collaborating with development and engineering teams to prioritize security risks, provide mitigation or remediation recommendations, and implement compensating controls.
• Assist in performing proof-of-concept testing for network security solutions under consideration for purchase and implementation.
• Assist in developing and maintaining network security policies, standards, processes and workflows.
• Provide 7/24 On-Call support for infrastructure related service incidents and follow internal management escalation procedures when necessary (team rotation).

• Bachelor’s degree in a related field of study with a minimum of 5-8+ years of relevant work experience or a Master’s degree in a related field of study with 4+ years of relevant work experience, or an equivalent combination of education and experience.

• Must have: 3+ Years working with Palo Alto Firewall.
• At least one entry-level vendor certification (with non-entry-level preferred) in the Network Security arena (Palo Alto PCNSA/PCNSE preferred, Cisco CCNA/CCNP Security, Juniper JNCIA-SEC/JNCIS-SEC, etc.) or equivalent experience

• Excellent interpersonal & leadership skills
• Excellent oral & written communication skills, people skills, planning, implementation and troubleshooting skills.

Skills and Abilities:

• Extensive experience working with Cisco switches, Cisco Secure Client VPN, Fortinet firewalls, Cisco ISE
• ITIL experience and certifications

• Some limited physical demands may present themselves while navigating server rooms and providing network support on site
• Able to lift and carry items up to 50 lbs.

Schedule: Core business hours are Monday to Friday, between 9:30-3:00pm. Specific work schedule and expected hours of work will be discussed. Some weekend and evening work may be required and will be…