Network Security Operations Analyst

Key Duties, Accountabilities and Responsibilities: • Works from established procedures with limited instruction. • Assist in the development and enhancement of procedures. • Performs moderately difficult assignments, requiring a great deal of originality and problem solving. • Working knowledge of project management concepts; able to run small projects. • Complies with information security policies. • Exhibits regular, reliable, punctual and predictable attendance. • Day-to-day operational tasks such as firewall request and incident management • Be able to work closely with 2nd and 3rd level Network Engineers, the Security Operations Center, as well as other teams. • Administration of firewalls such as Palo Alto virtual and physical appliances within the data center and AWS/Azure cloud • Conduct regular security assessments on controls and policies to iterate and improve the security posture. • Develop/maintain operational documentation and lead knowledge transfer/training sessions across technical teams as needed Required Qualifications/Skills/Experience: • A minimum of 1 year of experience in directly related work experience in network security administration/operational role fulfilling firewall requests and providing frontline incident response • A four year computer science or related technical degree or equivalent work experience. • Proven ability to communicate in the written/spoken language with audiences of diverse technical understanding • Proven ability to be a self-starter with self-motivation for learning new technologies • Proven ability to quickly understand customer problems and how they relate to network/security infrastructure • Basic knowledge of network security, Palo Alto firewalls, intrusion detection systems, authentication mechanisms, encryption technologies, and networking protocols including SMTP, HTTP, DNS, TCP/IP, and SNMP. • Proven ability to understand and decode network traces and capture files • Basic knowledge of network routing/switching (routing protocols, multicast, other LAN protocols) Required Skills : Palo Alto, Cloud, VPN Basic Qualification : Additional Skills : Background Check :Yes Drug Screen :Yes Notes : Selling points for candidate : Project Verification Info : Candidate must be your W2 Employee :No Exclusive to Apex :No Face to face interview required :No Candidate must be local :No Candidate must be authorized to work without sponsorship ::No Interview times set : :No Type of project :Development/Engineering Master Job Title :Security Analyst Branch Code :Denver