Senior Infrastructure Specialist

Responsibilities

Serves as a technical advisor responsible for implementing enterprise network security solutions using current and emerging technologies. Leads the engineering, installation, maintenance and administration of technical aspects for the OSG Infrastructure team supporting Critical Infrastructure.  Responsible for translating business requirements into secure network solutions or process designs.
 
Position Responsibilities:
•    Provide timely responses to all incidents, tasks and requests assigned to meet Service Level      Agreements. 
•    Work with internal clients, suppliers/contractors, project teams and other technical staff to identify, design and support technical solutions. 
•    Design, plan and implement changes to the environment for improvements or projects
•    Provide maintenance of infrastructure technologies following the change management process 
•    Lead the technical implementation plans in support of infrastructure technologies
•    Lead the evaluation, selection, and testing of hardware and software products  
•    Maintain regulatory compliance under NERC/CIP guidelines 
•    Maintain high quality security controls surrounding the critical SCADA systems 
•    Perform/coordinate special assignments from OSG Infrastructure Management 
•    Provide 24x7 on call support 
•    Provide professional and technical mentoring for team members
 

Skills and Requirements

Position requires a minimum of 5 (5) years’ experience working with infrastructure solutions in an enterprise environment
•    Position requires professional experience with more than one of the following areas:
o    Data Center Operations, Disaster Recover/Business Continuity Planning & Execution, Security & Compliance Management, Infrastructure Operational Policies & Procedures, and/or Technical Project Coordination 
•    Position requires Operational experience in an Enterprise Environment configuring and maintaining Cisco Routers/Switches/Firewalls such as Cisco Nexus 9K, Cisco Catalyst, Cisco ASR Routers, Cisco 4K Routers, Cisco ISE, Cisco Firepower, Cisco ASA 
•    Position requires Operational experience in an Enterprise Environment configuring and maintaining Next generation firewalls such as Checkpoint and Palo Alto 

Skills/ Abilities:
    •    Expert within network infrastructure, operations & network security 
    •    Proficient in professional standards and trends within area of expertise 
    •    Proficient in deploying Checkpoint, Palo Alto, Cisco ASA firewalls along with implementing VPN’s 
    •   Knowledge of multiple security technologies, to include network security, NAC, Micro segmentation, network security architecture
    •    Implementing security technologies such as SAML and PKI Infrastructure
    •     Network Access Control systems in a large enterprise 
    •    Experience with authentication systems such as RADIUS, TACACS+, SSO, LDAP Experience planning, researching, and developing security policies, standards, and procedures 
    •    Experience with architecting in cloud environments (AWS, Azure, and GCP) 
    •    SD-WAN and other tunneling\encryption transport technologies 
    •    Network Security Automation and DevOps  
    •    Strong Routing and Switching experience (BGP, OSPF, VPC, VXLAN, vain traffic engineering, Multicast, etc.

Desired Skills/ Abilities:
•    Experience with packet capture software such as Wireshark,  WinDump, tcpdump, etc. 
•    Experience with installing and configuring Citrix Netscalers in an Enterprise High Availability environment  
•    Experience with installing and configuring Cisco ISE in a distributed deployment with multiple personas 
•    Experience with Zero Trust Architecture
•    Experience working in a regulated environment  
•    NERC/CIP experience a plus 
•    Experience with Cisco Nexus Dashboard Fabric Controller (Formerly DCNM)
•    Experience using Solarwinds Orion platform suite of tools 

*Note: Will consider additional years of relevant experience and/or related technical certifications in lieu of degree requirement (in accordance with the FLSA Computer Professionals Exemption)

Competencies