Network Security Engineer (443340)
 Vaco | |
$60.00 - $80.00 / hr
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 United States, Texas, Addison | |
 Apr 10, 2025 | |
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Network Security Engineer | 443340
DETAILS Location: Addison, TX 75001 (onsite 4-days per week) Position Type: 6M C2H Hourly / Salary: to $140K JOB SUMMARY Vaco Technology is currently seeking a Network Security Engineer for a 6M C2H that is located in Addison, TX 75001 (onsite 4-days per week). The Network Security Engineer will plan, design, develop, evaluate, test, and integrate the security infrastructure, including implementation and design of multiple security solutions. The Network Security Engineer will collaborate on multiple security-related projects, interfacing with multiple teams, business units, and external clients / partners.
About the Project: The Network Security Engineer will be joining a newly established team, where this role will be their first outside hire. The organizations overall goal for 2025 is optimization, standardization, and modernization. The addition of this team, is no exception. They have 1-2 internal resources have been shifted over to this team but what they really need out of this person, is someone who is senior enough to help drive the creation and foundation of this team, from technology selection and optimization to eventually helping to build out the team. They need someone who is a forward thinker. A critical thinker. Someone who asks why they are doing things a certain way to dig in and really gain an understanding. They currently have several projects spun up under this new team. They are currently managing and supporting the Firewalls (primarily Palo Alto) but are also in the middle of a VMware NSX migration and are in the middle of a Microsegmentation project (Zero Trust). They are a Palo Alto Shop, utilizing Prisma Cloud, Cortex XDR, firewalls, and GlobalProtect VPN Client. They have interest in adding additional Palo Alto Products, including WildFire and AI functionality down the line. While they utilize functions within Cortex XDR, they are not using it as a complete MDR platform but the end-goal is to get there. Currently, they also utilize Carbon Black where everything gets pushed to Splunk ES, which is then pushed to the SOC team for firewall support and Splunk monitoring. They utilize both AWS and Azure, where AWS is more heavily utilized and Azure is more-so utilized to manage M365 tasks. Additionally, they have not moved heavily into IaC (Terraform) as of yet but that is the end-goal. They are looking for someone who is ready to hit the ground running, assist in the technology selection process and how to best utilize it, as well as mentor the security team members. JOB REQUIREMENTS
PREFERRED (not required)
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