IT Network Security Engineer

We are looking for an IT Network Security Engineer for our client who provides trading, clearing, settlement, market data distribution and other services for a broad range of asset classes (securities, derivatives, FX…).

Tasks and responsibilities:

• Deploy, administer and maintain network security tools and services related to network
• Assist in developing effective security policies, tool provisioning, and configuration review/audit
• Maintaining next generation firewalls, stateful firewalls, virtual private networks, web application firewalls, IDS/IPS, threat emulation, DDOS solution and performing regular configuration audits
• Provide consulting services to other departments and assist with implementation of multiple product vendors and technologies
• Perform knowledge transfers to the remaining team members regarding security and system configuration awareness
• Ensure operational stability of the field of responsibility
• Provide escalation support following processes and interacting appropriately with remaining departments and end users, when required
• Other duties as assigned

Required skills and experiences:

We focus on the person behind the skills when we recruit, but from a practical point-of-view, there are some hard sklil requirements, and you must be able to check following boxes to be considered:

• University degree (master or diploma) in IT
• Professional experience maintaining industry leading security technologies or infrastructure systems in complex technical IT operations environment
• Understanding of network security architecture and implementation is a must; ideal candidate will have worked with complex network security tools
• Superior IT problem-solving skills
• Proven experience with Cisco and/or Checkpoint security products (ASA, Firepower, IDS/IPS …)
• Training and experience with network components such as proxies (Blue Coat), threat emulation (Checkpoint), load balancers (F5), web application firewalls (F5) and email gateway (Cisco).
• Fundamental knowledge and experience of cloud platforms such as AWS, GCP or Azure.
• Experience with scripting is highly desired
• Articulated in English

Assignment:

• Full-time (100%)
• Duration: End of Q4
• Start: July 2022
• Location: Prague
• On-site vs. remote: 50:50