Lead network security engineer, Vilnius

STRATEGIC STAFFING SOLUTIONS INTERNATIONAL (S3I) with 31 locations in U.S and 7 in Europe is a Supplier of Managed Services, IT solutions & Services and Staffing for many international companies across US and Europe.

Currently our client, financial services company, is expanding their team and are looking for 

Job description:

The engineer will work very closely with technology and business leads within the company to identify and determine requirements. The candidate will then convert these requirements into a standard or set of standards that can be used by the delivery team to deliver standards based solutions for the customer.

Responsibilities:

• Research, evaluate, test and document H/W and S/W components to deliver highly available, scalable and supportable network security architectures as required and negotiated with Service Owners and Service Managers
• Perform detailed evaluations of network security products and components making recommendations through presentations and comprehensive engineering documentation.
• Provide daily subject matter expertise assistance to other business or IT groups.
• Ensuring all engineering tasks are recorded and completed in a professional and structured manner
• Build strong relationships with preferred vendors and 3rd party integrators
• Act as an escalation point in the event of network security problems
• Constantly review standards and best practices to identify performance improvements.
• Constantly develop and evolve engineering policies, procedures, reporting and documentation to further enhance the delivery from the team.

Requirements:

Essential skills:

• The candidate must have proven network security engineering skills within a large multi-site global environment, and a broad network security technology exposure, including the following:
• Extensive network security engineering experience
• Ability to innovate and define strategy and architecture in diverse application landscape
• A high level of expertise in perimeter security, preferably with Fortinet, Cisco, Checkpoint or Juniper certification
• Knowledge of zero-trust security models, and other trends within network security
• Data Centre Architecture & Design experience, preferably in a financial and virtualised environment.
• Previous experience of Content Switching, preferred  F5 certification
• Knowledge of a wide range of security technologies and combining these into a unified security architecture, including SIEM, IDS/IDP, VPN, Encryption, Firewalling, DLP, UTM, PKI.
• Knowledge of security architectures and solutions in a Cloud environment, both Private and Public. Preferably with AWS experience.

Nice to have:

• Experience setting up monitoring and scaling infrastructure in Cloud
• Understanding trade-offs between unit, integration and system testing and embracing continuous product delivery
• Knowledge and understanding of CI/CD processes, concepts and benefits. Understand benefit of fully-automated deployments, immutable artefacts, release toggles
• Understanding the difference between structured, semi-structured, and unstructured data. Understanding the general data product types that would be used to manage each type of data
• Broad understanding of common git concepts, workflows and usage patterns. 

Will be looking forward to your applications at:cvLT@strategicstaff.com