Work Location: Hybrid work schedule (3 days remote, 2 days in office) & Candidate location - candidates must be located in South Carolina (willing to consider candidates that will relocate from Georgia or North Carolina).

Program Experience:

Current experience with Medicaid, Social Services, or similar public benefit programs is strongly desired and will be given the highest weight. Experience should include well documented success with IT Networking configuration/implementation and network management.

Technical Knowledge:

Experience with documentation and artifacts related to any or all the following technologies would be considered desirable for this position:

• Health Information Technologies
• IT Network Infrastructure Operations/Implementations
• Palo Alto Firewalls and CISCO devices
• Extensive network wiring, configuration, and management

General Duties and Responsibilities:

1. Extensive experience with configuring and installing Palo Alto network firewalls and software to meet agency and industry standards.
2. Detailed at analyzing network efficiency across the entire agency network
3. Constantly reviewing network changes and trends in order to forecast future needs while determining and correcting complex network problems to region offices
4. Ability to provide network design recommendations and solutions to network problems while determining feasibility, cost, equipment needs, and time constraints/allocations for assigned projects.
5. Providing backup support with development of strategic direction of the network infrastructure for the network environment.

Essential Responsibilities

• Configure and install network hardware and software to meet agency and industry standards.
• Analyze network efficiency by conducting network tests and running diagnostics to forecast performance thresholds.
• Monitors and reports on network traffic, usage, and performance
• Reviews network changes and trends to forecast future needs while determining and correcting complex network problems. Review configurations on existing network infrastructure as well as make changes as needed.
• Provide network design recommendations and solutions to network problems while determining feasibility, cost, equipment needs, and time constraints/allocations for assigned projects.
• Assist in the development of strategic direction of the network infrastructure for both the current environment and potential future environment.
• Travel to different offices throughout the state to provide network configuration, implementation, and maintenance on the network infrastructure.
• Make recommendations on specific improvements in network efficiency and effectiveness using network diagrams and reports for I/O Leadership.
• Troubleshoot network connectivity issues with emphasis in Routing, DNS, URL-Filtering, and IPSEC VPN tunnels.
• Network security including proper configuration measures prior to devise deployment as well as retroactively on production systems in accordance with MARS-E standards.
• Prepare Network infrastructure documentation and assist with daily operations on infrastructure management.

Required

• 5-10 YEARS' EXPERIENCE IN INFORMATION SECURITY AND ENGINEERING
• EXPERIENCE DESIGNING AND MAINTAINING INFRASTRUCTURE IN AWS/AZURE
• CLOUD SECURITY DESIGN, OPERATIONS, AND AUTOMATION EXPERIENCE
• DOCUMENTATION OF SECURITY TOOLS, DEPLOYMENT CONFIGURATION, INCIDENT REPORTS, ETC.
• MUST HOLD AWS OR AZURE CERTIFICATION

  
  

  Preferred Skills

• EXPERIENCE DEPLOYING, CONFIGURING AND MAINTAINING CLOUD VM SERIES PALO ALTO
• FIREWALLS IN AWS AND AZURE
• PRISMA CLOUD
• FORESCOUT
• CISCO UMBRELLA
• PALO ALTO FIREWALLS
• F5 LOAD BALANCING/FIREWALL
• CISSP - CERTIFIED INFORMATION SYSTEMS SECURITY PROFESSIONAL SC100
• MICROSOFT CYBERSECURITY ARCHITECT AWS CERTIFIED CLOUD SOLUTIONS ARCHITECT
• PRISMA CERTIFIED CLOUD SECURITY ENGINEER, PCNSA, PCNSE