Position: Network Security Administrator
Location: Montreal QC (Hybrid)
Employment Type: Full-Time
Experience Required: 10 + Years
Position Overview:
Network professional with experience in firewalls, VPNs, cloud security, routing, switching, and L3 support. Skilled in Fortinet/Palo Alto, GCP networking, incident management, and automation using Python/Ansible. Strong troubleshooting, network security, and stakeholder communication skills.
Key Responsibilities:
- Communicate and coordinate designs and documentation with external vendors and internal technology focused teams, including senior management
- Lead the on boarding, deployment, and integration of Secure IoT firewalls into business-as-usual systems and processes
- Lead operational support for multiple network security solutions (e.g. GCP cloud native firewalls and/or Fortinet / Palo Alto third-party vendor solutions)
- L3 operational support, including incident management and troubleshooting advanced issues and collaborating with technology peers internally and externally (e.g. vendors)
- Implement monitoring of products and services to ensure a healthy and resilient infrastructure
- Potential for off hour coverage via mobile phone (e.g. as part of an operational on call system)
- Creation/supplementation of operational runbooks
- Assist in knowledge transfer (e.g. training global teammates via video recordings)
Required Skills:
- Knowledge and experience with common network security solutions (e.g. firewalls, Virtual Private Networks (VPNs), Network Address Translation (NAT), etc.)
- Knowledge of packet filtering and stateful packet inspection
- Knowledge and experience in cloud environments
- Scripting in any of the popular languages or tools (e.g. shell scripts, Python, Ansible, GitHub, Data pipeline, integration with third party vendor APIs)
- Knowledge of fundamental on networking (e.g. routing, switching, VLANs, etc.)
- Experience with host security (e.g., iptables, host-based firewalls)
- Familiarity with Change Management and incident response techniques
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, making presentations to internal audience, and interacting positively with management, colleagues and customers
- Independent problem-solving, highly motivated, and self-directing
- Comfortable working in an engineering and support team with potential for 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:
- Experience with any of the firewall platforms: Fortinet, Palo Alto, Juniper, etc.
- Understanding of networking and routing protocols (e.g. static routing, BGP, etc.)
- Strong understanding of networking fundamentals (OSI model, TCP Stack, network design)
- Experience in customer support and experience in interacting with business users
