IT Network Security Engineer

Stuttgart, Germany | Posted on 05/30/2024

Job Title

IT Network Security Engineer

Location

Boeblingen, Germany (must be close enough to come on site occasionally – assume at least once per week)

About Company

AboutCompany is on the forefront of technology innovation, delivering breakthroughs and trusted insights to the world’s visionaries and innovators in electronic design, test, manufacturing, and optimization. Our ~14,000 employees create world‑class solutions in wireless communications, 5G, automotive, quantum, aerospace, defense, and semiconductor markets for customers in over 100 countries.

This job will be part of the IT Global Network Center of Excellence (COE) organization, which takes pride in providing reliable, high-performance, secure, and cost‑optimized IT networks at 130+ global sites. We are the backbone on which bits and bytes travel at amazing speeds to enable business growth and operations.

Job Description

Responsibilities

• Act as SME & escalation point for operational support of network security infrastructure globally during North American business hours.
• Responsible for troubleshooting complex network and firewall related issues.
• Daily monitoring of security infrastructure, security logs and tools and be responsive to the automatic alerts to prevent outages.
• Maintain and optimize security monitoring and alerting system in Solar Winds.
• Continuously update vulnerability patches and work with vendor for security related recommendations.
• Collaborate with Information Security & Compliance team to assess, recommend and develop network infrastructure security initiatives.
• Provide technical leadership and expertise in escalations, P1-P3 incident response tickets.
• Continuous improvements – participates in Problem Management, post‑mortems, root cause analysis and accelerate/advance the resolution of incidents impacting the Critical Production Environment & prolonging escalations.
• Contribute to exciting global projects – site buildouts, new acquisitions, new technology deployments, technology refreshes, etc.
• Stabilize newly deployed cutting edge network security solutions.
• Assist with business engagement/stakeholder communications for new deployments or continuous improvement initiatives. Candidate needs to be comfortable with collaborating closely with business stakeholders.
• Willingness to work flexible hours including weekends and holiday coverage for any operational or project needs.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s Degree in related technology field or equivalent certification and/or experience.
• 5+ years of hands‑on network and security experience.
• Candidate must have Palo Alto and Fortinet firewall troubleshooting and deployment experience.
• Cisco Catalyst, Nexus and ACI experience is a plus.