Job Description

We are seeking a hardworking Senior Network Security Specialist to join our growing team in our Energy & Utilities practice at Cognizant! Our strength is built on our ability to work together. Our diverse set of backgrounds offer a wide range of perspectives and new ways of thinking. It encourages lively discussions, inspires thought leadership, and helps us build better solutions for our people and clients. We're looking for someone who thrives in this setting and is inspired to craft significant solutions through true partnership.

Roles/Responsibilities:

• Ensure Customer network security infrastructure is maintained in accordance with industry best practice and follows all Customer IT policies. This includes Load Balancers / Application Delivery Controllers, Firewalls, Web Content Filters, IPS, VPN, etc.
• Assist application groups design, architect, and implement solutions that provide redundancy, acceleration and automated failover and recovery across geographically dispersed locations.
• Involvement in ongoing and new applications with Cloud based environments.
• Work within UNIX and command line-based environments for security initiatives, scripting, maintenance, and support.
• Work closely with the Network Security, Network Planning and Network Operations to design secure and reliable solutions for services and application that are both internal and external facing.
• Ensure Customer network security infrastructure is secure in accordance with Customer policies and industry best practices, this includes our SCADA and control systems, Liquids and Gas control centers, data center, LAN and WAN.
• Create substantial technical documentation of design, processes, procedures and configurations for support and audit purposes.
• Focus of role is to provide broad and/or deep senior technical expertise and/or to directly coordinate the work of a small team or provide specialized assistance to a specific issue
• Using broad business and technical knowledge to resolve problems, project management, identifying opportunities and have a keen awareness of interrelationships with other stakeholders.
• Manage and maintain network load balancer security infrastructure for upgrades, patches, and network integration.
• Work closely with the network architects and Operations Support to ensure the telecommunications infrastructure for critical systems to the meet uptime, reliability, redundancy, and security expectations.
• Communicate to the business unit and other IT staff for network security infrastructure outages and planned changes. Outages and changes are required to be communicated to key stakeholders in a timely manner.
• Follow Customer change management requests and will represent network services security at change request meetings and change advisory board (CAB) meetings.
• Work with Supervisor and the network services security team on operational tasks and project goals.
• Ensure incident tracking tickets are closed and addressed in accordance with the business SLA's.
• Inclusion in the network services security load balancing on-call rotation.
• Provide senior support to major incidents.
• Work closely with the ITOC for escalations.
• Ensure the network services security inventory is maintained.
• Lead operational development of Business Continuity / Disaster Recovery for Enterprise
• Communicates as required to any client, internal IT, or external vendor in a timely and appropriate manner.
• Promotes work force diversity and employee safety.
• Supports Customer Control system & business unit networks within defined SLA & KPI's.

Requirements:

• Bachelor's degree in Business, MIS, computer science with diversified information services/technology experience or equivalent experience.
• Minimum of seven (7) years of directly related experience (Load Balancing, etc).
• Excellent understanding of designing, building, maintaining load balancer infrastructure.
• Excellent understanding of networking concepts, OSI model, protocols, services, etc.
• Excellent documentation skills.
• Good understanding of Firewalls
• Good understanding of UNIX.
• Good understanding of DNS.
• Good understanding of SSL certificates, PKI, OpenSSL, encryption algorithms, ciphers.
• Good understanding of Authentication mechanisms, such as SLDAP, RADIUS, SAML (including Multi Factor Authentication).
• Good understanding of network security best practices.
• Good understanding of application design and multi layered security models.
• Excellent troubleshooting and analytical skills.
• Excellent organizational skills.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills.

Cognizant will only consider applicants for this position who are legally authorized to work in Canada without requiring employer sponsorship, now or at any time in the future

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Employee Status : Full Time Employee

Shift : Day Job

Travel : No

Job Posting : Sep 07 2022

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