Senior Network Security Operations Administrator

Intersoft is a global business and technology consulting firm primarily serving consumer banks, wealth management firms, insurance companies and investment banks. Intersoft also offers its clients risk management and compliance-related software products and services in banking and financial services. In addition to serving its clients in the financial world, Intersoft serves its clients in telecommunications, pharmaceuticals and manufacturing space. 

Intersoft will strive to create a superior work environment that will offer assistance to all key players and stakeholders – its clients, its employees, and its partners to achieve their aspirations together as a harmonized team and allow to stretch themselves beyond their perceived boundaries to achieve the best possible.

This is an opportunity for a highly motivated individual to join a high energy team of security administrators responsible for managing global security infrastructure, focusing on network & web security such as proxy administration & authentication, PAC file administration and malware detection & protection.

The diversity of IT Security products & technologies under management provides for a learning experience that will satisfy even the ones the most eager to learn.

The position is fast paced, dynamic, challenging where a varied combination of technical skills and soft skills allows for the development of a well-rounded individual/professional.

This position is to be part of a global team reporting to the Security Operations Manager in Hong Kong.

Responsibilities

The non-technical aspects of the position include:

• Coordinating and leading the response of technology problems and incidents
• Customer service. Including off hour coverage via cell phone/pager (oncall system, ~every 8 weeks)
• Creation/supplementation of Operational Runbooks
• Aligning global strategies with regional needs and demands
• Training teammates
• Interacting with service members of the networking, systems, e-business and PC support groups in major metropolitan regions across the globe.

Technical skills

• Strong knowledge and experience with network security (e.g., configuring Internet web / SOCKS / FTP proxies, deploying and managing antimalware, configuring firewalls systems and related network security monitoring & management platforms like Lancope, RedSeal, Tufin).

• Strong knowledge and experience with Bluecoat web / SOCKS / FTP proxies, Bluecoat Management Center, BCAAA, PAC, etc
• Strong knowledge of packet filtering, stateful packet inspection and the differences between them
• Strong knowledge of fundamental networking/distributed computing environment concepts e.g. routing, switching, VLANs, VPNS, NIS, NFS.
• Intermediate to advanced understanding of packet capture and analysis using snoop, tcpdump and Ethereal or similar tools.
• Experience with scripting like shell scripts, perl scripts, etc to assist daily works.
• Familiarity with incident response techniques, intrusion prevention systems, information security methodologies, authentication protocols and different IT Security threat mechanisms.

Soft skills

• Active interest in IT Security and general knowledge of Information Security
• Excellent written and oral communication skills. Fluent English is required
• Strong interpersonal and communication skills; capable of writing documentation, training users in complex topics, making presentations to an internal audience, and interacting positively with upper management, colleagues and customers.
• Independent problem-solving, highly motivated and self-directing
• Comfortable working in an operations and support team with heavy end user interaction
• Ability to handle constantly changing flow of traffic; remain productive during slow times, be able to multitask effectively during busy times, exercise patience and professionalism during stressful situations.

Desired Skills

Having skills and experience in the areas below is a major plus and will help the candidate integrate with the team and environment:

• Experience with firewall enterprise management suites e.g. Juniper NSM, Juniper SPACE, Fortigate e.g. manage 400+ firewalls.

· Experience with any of the following firewall platforms: Juniper Netscreen & SRX, Palo Alto.

· Understanding of routing protocols (BGP, OSPF, RIP, etc)

· Experience with Linux system administration (Red Hat Enterprise Linux)

· Experience with any of the following load balancing devices: F5 BIG-IP, A10

· Experience with any of the following systems management and monitoring: Micromuse Netcool, Empire Sysedge, SNMP

· Experience using intrusion detection/prevention solutions

· Experience with network security risk and compliance tools like RedSeal, Tufin, Skybox.

· Experience with NBAD (Network Behavior Anomaly Detection) tools like Lancope.

· Experience in customer support and experience in interacting with business

• Experience with host security (e.g., passwords, uids/gids, SIDs, file permissions, ACLs, filesystem integrity, use of security packages, IPTables).

Five to ten years of network security administration experience in an environment of more than 100 servers, with more than 100 users and more than 1 operating system (i.e. Solaris and Linux, Solaris and Windows, Linux and Windows or other combinations); preferably in the Financial Services sector.

All your information will be kept confidential according to EEO guidelines.