Role : Information Security Engineer

Location : NY/NJ

Job Description :

Role Overview :

We are seeking a highly skilled and detail-oriented Information Security Engineer to join our team. The ideal candidate blends deep networking expertise, strong security engineering capabilities, and hands-on automation skills to support large-scale cloud migrations and ongoing operational excellence.

This individual will play a key role in architecting, migrating, and securing workloads across AWS and Google Cloud Platform (GCP), while ensuring compliance with industry regulations and best practices.

Key Responsibilities :

Security Monitoring & Incident Response :

- Monitor organization's networks and systems for security breaches and intrusions.

- Lead incident response activities to minimize the impact of any breach.

- Conduct technical and forensic investigations to determine breach origin and extent.

- Prepare detailed findings reports for management review.

- Perform periodic vulnerability scans across networks and systems.

- Work with penetration testing results and drive remediation solutions.

Security Strategy & Engineering :

- Help plan and execute the organization's information security strategy.

- Develop and maintain security standards, best practices, and policies.

- Recommend security enhancements and create breach response/recovery strategies.

- Install and manage security tools including firewalls, data encryption, and privileged access management (PAM) solutions.

Cloud Infrastructure & Networking :

- Design, implement, and maintain cloud networking solutions including VPCs, subnets, routing, peering, and hybrid connectivity.

- Deploy and manage AWS load balancing solutions: ALB, ELB, and Gateway Load Balancer.

- Implement and maintain CloudWatch monitoring, alerting, and observability dashboards.

- Work with containerless architectures and modern application delivery patterns.

- Drive initiatives to secure, scale, and build resilient cloud infrastructure.

Automation & DevOps :

- Build automation and tooling using Python, Ansible, and Terraform to streamline deployments and day-to-day operations.

- Manage infrastructure workflows via GitHub, including version control, CI/CD pipelines, and code reviews.

Operational Support & Compliance :

- Provide technical support for network, security, and monitoring systems.

- Open and manage vendor support cases through to complete resolution.

- Provide after-hours and on-call support as scheduled or required.

- Work with internal and external IT auditors for SOX, PCI, and Cybersecurity audit evidence and documentation.

- Manage monitoring systems; maintain alerting, escalation policies, and periodic health reports.

- Collaborate with infrastructure teams, application development groups, and business units on implementations and ongoing support.

- Analyze requirements; provide design and implementation recommendations per company standards.

- Manage remediation of network and security issues on a regular basis.

Required Qualifications :

- 3 to 6 years of experience in IT network and security engineering and support.

- 5+ years of firewall configuration experience, including Policy, NAT, VPN (L2L, RA, SSL). Palo Alto and Cisco ASA experience is a plus.

- 5+ years of Cisco routing and switching experience; excellent understanding of L2 & L3.

- 3+ years of Citrix NetScaler experience.

- Proficient with Linux and RHEL command-line tools and troubleshooting.

- Solid understanding of SSH port forwarding.

- Good understanding of security technologies: firewall, load balancing, proxy, and authentication methods.

- Experience with SNMP-based monitoring systems such as Nagios or Grafana.

- Low-level (packet-level) network and application protocol analysis and troubleshooting.

- Excellent oral, written communication, and documentation skills. Ability to explain complex technical concepts in non-technical terms.

Preferred Qualifications :

- Knowledge of Arista network design, configuration, and troubleshooting.

- Scripting experience in Python or Perl.

- Experience with configuration automation tools: Ansible, Puppet, or Chef.

- Familiarity with AWS and GCP cloud platforms.

What We're Looking For :

We are seeking organized, flexible, and results-oriented individuals who thrive in fast-paced environments. The ideal candidate is a self-starter who can:

- Work with minimal supervision and take full ownership of assigned tasks through completion.

- Effectively communicate project and work status to management and peers.

- Demonstrate both technical depth and the ability to convey complex concepts clearly.

- Provide examples of written documentation and network diagrams upon request.

- Collaborate across global IT teams and actively participate in all project phases.