Title:  Specialist, IT Security

Job Title: Specialist, IT Security

Job Code: 20626

Job Location: Melbourne FL, Rochester NY, Salt Lake City UT, Greenville TX, Other L3H facility

Job Schedule: 9/80

Job Description:

The IT Security Specialist is responsible for protecting the company's intellectual property, brand identity, and employees from cyber threats. We are looking for someone with a firm background in networking, routing, firewalls and remote access to support a 50,000+ user-based environment, preferably with Palo Alto experience. Candidates must be able to operate effectively in a fast-paced, highly fluid environment, handling tasks ranging from ticket processing, troubleshooting calls, and design reviews, all while maintaining daily operations with a security focused approach

Essential Functions:

• Support day-to-day Firewall and Remote Access changes for Palo Alto firewalls
• Participate in troubleshooting/resolution using a centralized ticketing system, systems logs, and packet captures
• Coordinate/support infrastructure changes both internally to Perimeter Security as well as with other IT teams
• Participate/support various IT projects including setup/maintenance of new and existing remote and virtual locations and equipment, patch and maintain hardware, open vendor support tickets
• Support large datacenter 24/7 operations
• Be available to support an after-hours/weekend maintenance schedule + participate in an on-call rotation
• Maintain a vigilant customer support focus
• Maintain change control documentation
• Critical thinking/ability to analyze a situation for underlying issues
• Excellent written and verbal communication skill to coordinate efforts between different IT teams

Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s Degree and minimum 4 years of prior relevant experience. Graduate Degree and a minimum of 2 years of prior related experience. In lieu of a degree, minimum of 8 years of prior related experience.

Preferred Additional Skills:

• 5+ years Network/IT Security experience at an Enterprise/large scale level                 
• Experience with logging and monitoring tools (Spectrum, Splunk, ArcSight, Nagios)
• Certifications such as CCNP, CISSP, CISA, Security+
• Palo Alto experience
• Networking background: TCP/UDP, Switching, Routing (layers 1-7)
• Prior experience managing Enterprise/large scale firewall and/or remote access deployment, Palo Alto platform for preference
• Background experience identifying and troubleshooting PC/application and network issues

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