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