Senior Network Security Specialist

3 weeks ago

Olympia, Washington, United States State of Washington Full time
About the Position

This role is part of the Network Operations Center (NOC) within the Network Services Division (NSD) within WaTech. NSD delivers data networking, internet, cloud connectivity, telephony, and network security (firewall) services to Washington state agencies, federal entities, all counties, various cities, municipalities, school districts, boards, commissions, Tribes, and nonprofits.

As a Senior Network Security Specialist, you will be the escalation point for state agencies, counties, municipalities, and Tribes when they experience network outages or connectivity issues with their respective networks or applications.

Key Responsibilities
  • Implement high-level design solutions.
  • Research, identify, and suggest potential technical solutions to meet agency or customer needs and future state.
  • Create logical designs, network-synthesis, and network realization to add clarity and understanding of design proposal(s).
  • Administer and implement SSL VPN Virtual Private Networks (VPN) solutions.
  • Provide senior technical-level understanding and leadership for WaTech and customer agency IT staff for the Enterprise Reverse Proxy, Enterprise Forward Proxy, Application Delivery, Security, and Traffic Management, SSL VPN, Splunk, and other F5-based services.
  • Maintain critical statewide core network in a Cisco environment.
  • Monitor and manage to ensure 24x7x365 network reliability on the statewide network that enables all state agencies to conduct essential businesses.
  • Ensure all state agency internet and IT connectivity is operational.
  • Address outages and escalations by customers' IT groups.
  • Utilize advanced hardware and software network monitoring tools, diagnostic equipment, and network design protocols.
  • Document incident, customer service requests, and requests for change in ticket management system.
  • Analyze the security risk of the network and independently initiate actions to minimize the impact of network security incidents and system events.
  • Provide consultation to internal and external customers on highly complex, statewide IT initiatives and efficiency.
Requirements
  • Eight years of information technology (IT) experience.
  • Three years' experience with digital Certificates, PKI, and crypto concepts, protocols, and/or LDAP authentication and authorization.
  • Three years' experience with supporting F5 or similar network gear to include Linux, VM Ware, and SSL VPN, forward/reverse proxy technology.
  • Three years of layer 3 network routing and switching experience in a Cisco production environment to include IP addressing and knowledge of network protocols and security concepts.
Preferred Qualifications
  • Network, security, or other IT networking-related certifications such as Cisco Certified Networking Professional (CCNP) Routing and Switching or Cisco Certified Design Professional (CCDP).
  • Experience with supporting or deploying cloud services such as AWS/Azure or other cloud providers.
  • Security service edge (SSE) experience, such as Zero Trust Network Access (ZTNA), Secure Web Gateway (SWG), Cloud Access Security Broker (CASB), Cloud Firewall or Firewall-as-a-Service (FWaaS).
What We Offer

As an employee of WaTech, you'll have access to an outstanding benefits package, including medical and dental plan options, paid leave and holidays, retirement plan options, and more.

While WaTech is headquartered in Olympia, Washington, we are able to offer many of our positions telework and flexible schedule options to help support a healthy work-life balance.

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