Desired Skills and Experience

  • Drive technical innovation and efficiency in networking and security via automation
  • Create processes that enhance operational workflow and provide positive customer impact
  • Dive deep to resolve problems at their root, looking for failure patterns amenable to long-term solutions via simplification and automation
  • Handle problem tickets, change tickets, requests for information, data and status as needed
  • Insure all network hardware has required monitors and alerts enabled and configured in requisite monitoring systems
  • Stresses building automation and highly redundant systems to avoid phone calls on the weekends or weeknights
  • Avoid re-inventing the wheel and prefer appropriately simple, repeatable solutions over more complex and failure prone ones
  • Act as a technical point of escalation
  • Recognize and adopt best practices in documentation, testing, security, operational support at scale, and efficient use of resources
  • Develop appropriate metrics to demonstrate performance at improving operational efficiency
  • Support the deployment, configuration, and administration of enterprise network security appliances and software
  • Insure that all device management adheres to Hallmark Labs’ compliance standards policy and provide the mandatory documentation to meet the compliance requirements for each device
  • Analyze, configure and maintain security components within a complex Local Area Network (LAN) and Wide Area Network (WAN)
  • Work with other infrastructure, engineering and customer service teams to ensure all servers have required security compliance for patch management, anti-virus, other threat protection, and are available 24 x 7
  • Implement, manage, refine disaster recovery solutions
  • Support off-hours on-call
  • Utilize strong problem solving & troubleshooting skills including ability to perform root cause analysis for preventative analysis
  • Work on small, cross-functional, fast paced teams
  • Utilize strong organizational skills and the ability to manage a diversified workload
  • Communicate & work effectively with all levels of staff including senior management
  • Work under minimal supervision on complex issues to deliver great results on schedule
  • 5+ years enterprise networking experience
  • 3+ years of public/private/hybrid cloud experience
  • 3+ years’ experience with Network Intrusion Detection Systems (NIDS) and Host-Based Intrusion Detection Systems (HIDS) products
  • 3+ years’ experience with one or more network vulnerability scanners such as Rapid7, Trustwave, Nmap, and other vulnerability scanners
  • 3+ years’ experience with monitoring/alerting systems including log aggregation (SIEM) systems
  • Previous role implementing and supporting highly available security solutions including server and network hardening
  • Previous role supporting highly available network topologies in a hybrid cloud geographically diverse configuration including (but not limited to) 10G, load balancers, multiple VPN tunnels, BGP, EIGRP, OSPF, 802.1q, VRRP, and link aggregations
  • Previous role in TCP/IP networking, architecture, core technologies (DNS, HTTP, Routing, etc.), firewalls, load balancers, and IDS/IPS systems
  • BS in Computer Science or related field, or equivalent experience
  • CISSP, CCNP, JNCIP-ENT, and/or JNCIS-ENT
  • Experience with AWS NACLs and security group configurations
  • Knowledgeable with automation technologies/languages such as Ansible, Jenkins, Rundeck, Python, Puppet, and Chef
  • Experience with implementing disaster recovery, capacity planning, utilization review, and monitoring of availability and performance
  • Knowledgeable in Microsoft Visio to effectively document and maintain system documentation
  • Able to work under minimal supervision on complex issues to deliver results on schedule
  • Comprehensive verbal and written communication skills including mentoring junior staff
  • Strong organizational skills and the ability to manage a diversified workload
  • Experience working on small, cross-functional, fast paced teams
  • Familiar with Agile processes and DevOps manifesto