Senior Network Security Architect

Job Description

Our client seeks a motivated Senior Network Security Architect with a focus on Google Cloud Platform (GCP) to join their engineering team. If you excel in dynamic environments and are committed to skill enhancement, this role offers an exciting opportunity.

Job Type :
Contract (12 months with possibility for extension)

Location :
Hybrid in the following locations – Phoenix, AZ;
Palo Alto, CA;
Salt Lake City, UT;
Sunrise, FL;
New York, NY

This position is not eligible for visa sponsorship.

• Contribute to the design, build, and maintenance of modern on-prem cloud platforms.
• Review existing tools, applications, and processes to strengthen current capabilities and identify areas for improvement.
• Assist in providing technical recommendations, documentation, and reporting to support leadership, business, and technology teams.
• Ensure reliable and predictable deployment and maintenance of distributed systems adhering to security best practices.
• Responsible for the stability and performance of critical business services.
• Operate efficiently within a highly skilled and agile engineering team.
• Participate in production support and on-call rotations.

• Minimum of 5 years of experience designing and implementing cloud-based enterprise architecture.
• Proficiency working with cloud providers including GCP, AWS, Azure, OCI, Alibaba, Digital Ocean, Vultr, Linode.
• Proven ability to create highly professional, accurate, and comprehensive solutions documentation representing solution architecture, design, implementation planning or other solution lifecycle events.
• Experience in the design and maintenance of modern on-prem cloud platforms.
• Knowledge of reliable and predictable deployment and maintenance of distributed systems following security best practices.
• Demonstrable understanding of technology standards and standards organizations and their relationship to enterprise information security postures.
• Experience implementing, configuring, and managing Physical / Virtual Firewalls, IDS / IPS, IAM, DDoS mitigation, and NIST standards.
• Experience with automation tools such as Terraform, Ansible, Puppet, GIT, Jenkins, and Bash scripting.
• Familiarity with Agile / Sprint based lifecycle and related ceremonies.

• Proficiency in Global Data Centers, Corporate office, Public / Private Cloud, and Hybrid Multi-Cloud / On-Prem architectures.
• Proficiency in Internet, VPN, LAN, WAN, SD-WAN, MPLS, Firewalls, Load Balancers, Routing, Switching, Wireless, VoIP, CDN, OTT, IPSec.
• Familiarity with Cisco, Arista, Juniper, Brocade, Palo Alto, F5, A10, Silver Peak vendors.
• Understanding of Well Architected Framework principles, Commercial regions, Gov Cloud, and Multi-Cloud Interconnectivity.
• Experience with cloud services such as VPC, EC2, ELB, VGW, Direct Connect, Direct Connect Gateway, Transit Gateway, Peering, Site Link, Mega Port, Marketplace solutions, Compute (Linux / Windows), Virtualization, and Containerization.
• CISSP, CISA, CISM, or other related certification.