Job Summary

As Network Security Architect, ideal candidate is expected to:

Responsibilities

- Conduct regular security audits against the organization's global network infrastructure for signs of vulnerabilities, intrusions, and ensure the efficacy of security measures in place.
- Implement security controls, firewalls, intrusion detection systems, and other network security measures.
- Work with network administrators and other IT stakeholders to ensure network security designs meet established standards.
- Develop automated reporting on network security posture for presentation to executive management and stakeholders.
- Collaborate with internal security architects to evaluate new technologies, services, and applications before deployment.
- Lead security and vulnerability assessments on new, existing, and affiliated network configurations.
- Review and approve security configurations for routers, switches, firewalls, VPN gateways, load balancers, etc.
- Develop, review, and update network security policies, procedures, standards, and guidelines.
- Collaborate with our corporate functions including Internal Audit, Legal and Compliance, Privacy, and Sourcing to ensure that WBD maintains a robust cybersecurity posture.
- Understand technical security issues and the implications to WBD businesses and be able to communicate them to management and other business leaders.
- Understand emerging security technologies and determine the appropriate use within business applications.
- Validate reference architectures for security best practices and recommend changes to enhance security and reduce risk, where applicable.

How We Get Things Done

This last bit is probably the most important! Here at WBD, our guiding principles are the core values by which we operate and are central to how we get things done. You can find them on the guiding principles page, along with some insights from the team on what they mean and how they show up in their day to day. We hope they resonate with you and look forward to discussing them during your interview.

Qualifications Experiences





- 8+ years Hands-on experience configuring and managing Palo Alto Networks firewalls, including security policies and Panorama.
- Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or other related discipline or 5+ years of previous network security experience.
- Must be proficient in networking protocols including TCP/IP, UDP, HTTP/HTTPS, FTP/SFTP, DNS, SNMP, SMTP/POP3/IMAP, and LDAP, along with their associated security measures and vulnerabilities.
- Exceptional verbal and written communication skills, specifically the ability to communicate within the context of the intended audience, whether that be senior executives or highly technical engineering resources.
- Detailed understanding of the threats faced by direct to consumer and digital platform organizations.
- Hands on experience securing hybrid and cloud native infrastructure is highly preferred
- Proven hands on experience hardening network and security appliances
- Detailed technical experience supporting and implementing SIEM and logging tools (Splunk, Kibana, etc.) and the ability to extract actionable intelligence from large volume aggregated log storage.
- Thorough understanding of Network and enterprise IT infrastructure, and, specifically, the security aspects thereof.
- Thorough understanding of compliance and regulatory frameworks and how they affect architecture designs and reviews.

Not Required but preferred experience

- Working knowledge of at least one programming language (Python, Go etc.)
- Familiarity with Github CI/CD pipelines
- Utilize APIs and scripting to integrate network security tools with other systems for comprehensive threat detection and analysis
- Demonstrated experience implementing and managing Microsoft Azure cloud infrastructure, including networking, security services, and best practices.
- Security certifications are a plus. (CISSP, CCIE, PCNSE, CISA, SANS, Security+ etc.)

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