Network Operations Center (NOC) Network Security Engineer
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Location: Brooklyn, NY 11226
Description:
Job Description
Client Name: City of New York
Start Date: August 2025
End Date: August 2027
Contract Length (in weeks): 104
OUTLINE OF RESPONSIBILITIES
Requirements
MANDATORY MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS
The successful candidate must have minimally achieved the following level of experience:
PREFERABLE QUALIFICATIONS
Client Name: City of New York
Start Date: August 2025
End Date: August 2027
Contract Length (in weeks): 104
OUTLINE OF RESPONSIBILITIES
- Work with IT Security team and NYC Cyber Command to investigate and respond to detected vulnerabilities and to ensure all environments are appropriately patched in a timely manner.
- Responsible for using tools such as Splunk to correlate event or incident data to identify specific vulnerabilities and make recommendations that enable expeditious remediation.
- Assist with planning, implementing, upgrading, or monitoring security measures for the protection of computer networks, systems, and information.
- Troubleshoot and recommend improvements to network including operating systems and related software and provides tactical and strategic input to overall network planning and related projects. Isolates and resolves network problems in a timely manner.
- Provide solution design and operational support of Cisco ASA and FirePOWER (FMC/FTD/FXOS) network firewalls including AnyConnect remote access VPNs as well as isakmp/IKEv2/VTI/IPSEC/GRE site-to-site tunnels.
- Collaborating with applications and support teams on design and implementation of application load balancing solutions (F5, Avi Networks/NSX Load Balancer).
- Configuration of Cisco Identity Services Engine (ISE) for identity and access control.
- Management of Azure/AWS cloud networks and firewalls.
- Working closely with security team on Zscaler policy management and report generation.
- Using tools (e.g., Netscout, Wireshark, tcpdump) to perform packet-level analysis for monitoring for security risks and troubleshooting network traffic.
- Responsible for working with vendors and resolving network outages in a timely fashion in order to meet internal SLAs and / or Metrics.
- Creating and updating Standard Operating Procedures, network documentation and diagrams using Visio/Lucidchart.
Requirements
MANDATORY MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS
The successful candidate must have minimally achieved the following level of experience:
- 5+ years of experience in in network security (Cisco ASA & Firepower)
- 5+ years of experience with F5 load balancing (LTM, GTM, BIG-IQ)
- 5+ years of packet analysis to resolve complex technical issues.
- 5+ years of experience in configuring and troubleshooting Cisco routers and L2/L3 switches
- 5+ years of experience routing protocols such as, BGP, OSPF, EIGRP, etc.
PREFERABLE QUALIFICATIONS
- Prior education industry/project experience
- Cisco CCNA, CCNP, CompTIA Security+ or other related industry security certifications
- Must be a self-starter and be able to work well independently and in a team
- Excellent oral and written communication skills; ability to communicate in a credible and confident manner at all levels in the organization especially on technical issues to a non-technical audience.
- Detailed and process-oriented
- Experience in VMware NSX and NSX Advanced Load Balancer
- Experience using Splunk SIEM and Splunk Processing Language (SPL)
- Experience Azure/AWS cloud infrastructure and Express Route
- Experience in implementing network security best practices