When you join Verizon

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What you’ll be doing...

At Verizon, we don't wait for the future, we build it! Join the industry leader in Network, Security, and Telecommunications Services as we embark on transforming our nation's critical communications infrastructure and the FAA's National Airspace System (NAS) network. As a member of our FAA Enterprise Network Services (FENS) team, you will bring your passion, education and security engineering experience to this critical mission and interact directly with decision-makers and government staff who are tasked with ensuring the nation's air transportation system's underlying communications infrastructure is secure and always available. We are hiring skilled and energetic candidates to work alongside the best and brightest employees on a long-term career opportunity to design, build and operate the next generation NAS network supporting the busiest, most complex aerospace system in the world.

In this role, you will be the Security Device Engineering subject matter expert for the Security Operations Center supporting the FAA

Responsibilities Include:

Designing, engineering, implementing change requests for security devices

incident management through complex troubleshooting of security devices

Assisting Tier 2 security engineers with or performing troubleshooting, configuration, replacement, updating or installation of enterprise security devices.

Acting as an escalation point for Tier 2 to solve security issues.

Working with the design engineer, project engineer and project manager on customer transition, implementation, or transformation projects.

Assessing vendor vulnerability reports against existing customer devices. Working with customers to implement mitigation activities.

Participating in audit and compliance assessments performed internally, by external vendors or by customer audit teams.

Attending incident calls, reviewing and understanding documented processes, updating process documents, providing peer-to-peer training and interaction with high level Verizon and customer managers.

Performing other duties as required.

Where you will be working:

In this hybrid role, you'll have a defined work location that includes work from home and assigned office days set by your manager.

What we’re looking for...

You'll need to have:

Bachelor’s degree or four or more years of work experience.

Six or more years of relevant work experience

Six or more years of experience with security device engineering

Must be able to qualify for a government clearance at the Public Trust level

Even better if you also have:

A degree.

Experience working with Palo Alto Firewalls, Cisco Firewalls, Infoblox, Endace, Packet Captures(Capturing, reviewing, decoding) Cisco Stealthwatch, VMware based firewalls, Cisco ISE, Startech and signature creation for any of the above would be a strong plus

Ability to use JIRA and create Excel Gannt Charts to project manage work

Powershell/python scripting.

Security certification i.e. Security+, CISSP, GIAC.

Experience with Cisco UCS.

Experience in a system build and administration of Windows server 2016 -2019, Linux - RHEL/CENTOS 7/8/9 and Ubuntu.

Experience in Networking/firewall troubleshooting connectivity.

Experience in LDAP/ Active Directory.

Experience in Load balancing (HAProxy, F5).

Experience in Splunk.

Experience in IT, application development and support, and Cybersecurity with highly scalable online transactional systems.

Experience in .NET C# Development.

Knowledge of MS SQL Server Database and T-SQL.

Experience in Web Service Development.

Experience in MVC 4/5 Development.

Experience in RESTful Web API Development.

Experience working with the FAA preferred.

If Verizon and this role sound like a fit for you, we encourage you to apply even if you don’t meet every “even better” qualification listed above.

Where you’ll be working In this hybrid role, you'll have a defined work location that includes work from home and assigned office days set by your manager.

Scheduled Weekly Hours 40

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