Cloud Network Engineer (AWS, Network Detection, Palo Alto)- 100% Remote Contract

Cloud Network Engineer (AWS, Network Detection/Response)- 100% Remote Contract

Optomi, in partnership with an industry leader, is seeking an experienced Cloud Network Engineer to join their team in an enterprise setting. This engineer will have significant cloud networking experience in AWS utilizing various services for troubleshooting, deployments, and automation. In addition, this engineer will have experience with Network Detection and Response for detection, monitoring, and triage of incidents in the network.

Responsibilities:

• Design, deploy, configure, and maintain NDR and network visibility solutions (Can have experience with Darktrace, Arista, Cisco Stealthwatch, FortiNDR, VectraAI or other NDR solutions)
• Utilize various networking services within AWS- VPC, Route53, GuardDuty, DirectConnect
• Network troubleshooting- various routing, switch and firewall issues (mostly Palo Alto in this role)
• Designing and tuning detection strategies, implementing effective alerting mechanisms, reducing false positives, and integrating alerts with SOC workflows
• Create automated containment and remediation workflows where appropriate.
• Using various networking and systems protocols such as DNS, TCP/IP, DHCP, HTTP/S, etc.

Apply today if your background includes:

• Significant network engineering experience-route, switch, firewall- have Cisco and Palo Alto in this role
• AWS cloud networking experience- Route53, transit gateway, direct connect, S3, etc.
• Network Detection and Response experience (NDR- can be with Arista, ExtraHop, Vectra AI, Darktrace, FortiNDR, etc.)
• Experience reducing false positives and improving detection fidelity.
• Experience designing and tuning security alerts in operational environments
• Network automation experience (Python, PowerShell, CloudFormation, etc.) is a plus