Cyber Security Engineer

Classification: Contract-to-hire

Contract length: 6-Months

Address: Fully Remote

CereCore is seeking a Cybersecurity Engineer join our customer in remotely.

The Cybersecurity Engineer will support and contribute to the implementation, modernization, standardization and enhancement of network security controls to protect a hospital enterprise’s infrastructure, patients and data from increasing risk and threats. The position will perform reviews and assess policies for risk and vulnerabilities with assistance from assessments or internal security audits and identify potential hardening opportunities, provide remediation recommendations and solutions and assist in the implementation or configuration changes to support continuous security control maturity and risk reduction.

This position will work collaboratively with other IT teams to implement risk management practices, optimize technology solutions, monitor and adjust infrastructure to meet current and future needs, ensure compliance with regulatory requirements, and continuously plan for the future to improve our security posture and control maturity. The ideal candidate will be experienced in network security fundamentals and have a strong understanding of how to develop and implement remediation plans to address identified risks, implement new features and technologies, standardize and optimize existing technologies, establish and maintain baselines, and automate processes wherever possible to increase efficiency and reduce errors.

General Responsibilities

• Assist in the evaluation, recommendation, and implementation of appropriate security measures, including next-generation firewall features, intrusion detection/prevention systems, VPN, network segmentation/zero trust, multifactor and access control mechanisms.
• Conduct firewall rule reviews, security audits, baseline and best practice compliance, forensic network investigation to support data transmission adherence and implement or oversee recommendations
• Support and contribute to network security solutions under the guidance of senior engineers to protect the organization's infrastructure, applications, and data from cyber threats in accordance with regulatory and industry requirements, such as PCI DSS, SOX, NIST, ISO 27000, and HIPAA.
• Evaluate vulnerability assessments, penetration tests, metrics and security audits to identify potential hardening opportunities and provide remediation recommendations and solutions.
• Assisting with the implementation of solutions and configuration changes within a large enterprise network under the guidance of senior engineers in support of continuous security control maturity and risk reduction.
• Participate in incident response and disaster recovery planning and testing
• Collaborate with other IT teams to ensure that network security controls are integrated with other systems and applications and are up to security standards
• Conduct routine network security audits and control tests on deployed technologies, collecting and consolidating indicators of performance, risks, trends and providing recommendations, baseline and regulatory compliance ratings.
• Participate in relationships with vendors and contractors to ensure that security services are timely delivered and implemented in alignment to security policies
• Collaborate with senior engineers on the development and documentation of security policies and procedures, training and awareness.
• Assist department leads with training peers on compliance and best practices.
• Assist with research and design enhancements of automated solutions or best of breed technologies while assisting with integration tests with vendors.
• Keep up-to-date with the latest threats and vulnerabilities, as well as relevant regulations and industry best practices, and implement recommendations to improve the organization's security posture and control maturity.
  
  

Experience

• Bachelor’s degree preferred
• 3+ years of relevant work experience required
• Relevant experience with security technologies, such as next-generation firewalls, intrusion detection/prevention systems, VPN, network segmentation, access control mechanisms, and security design, management, best practices, policy, standards in large 1000+ firewall environments.
• Experience in Checkpoint Firewall, CMA, Provider-1, Maestro, VSX/VSLS, Cloud Guard
• Administration of one or many of the following Cisco Network Security Products & Technologies (i.e. Firepower, ASA, VPN, WSA, ISE, Stealthwatch, etc.)
• Strong understanding of network protocols, topologies, tools, subnetting and architectures
• Aptitude in Network Security Policy Management tools (Algosec, Tufin) and/or conducting risk assessments, firewall rule review, and security audits
• Strong knowledge of enterprise security technologies and processes (Zscaler, A10, F5, WAF, Advanced Threat Detection Tools, Antibot, Antimalware, Threat Emulation, SIEM, IDS/IPS, Network Packet Analysis, Netflow, etc.)
• Experience administrating solutions for security standards and frameworks, such as HIPAA, SOX, PCI DSS, HITECH, ISO/IEC 27001, and NIST Cybersecurity Framework
• Knowledge of Network Security Management Tools/Technologies (e.g.: Splunk, TrustSec, segmentation, syslog, etc.)
• Excellent verbal and written communication, interpersonal, analytical and problem-solving skills.
• Ability to work independently and as part of a team
• Relevant certification from ISC2 (CISSP), GIAC (GISP), ISACA (CISA), Cisco Security or CompTIA are a plus