Senior Network Security Engineer

Company

• Our client is a Boston-based investment management firm specializing in systematic, data-driven global equity strategies for institutional investors. The organization combines sophisticated technology and quantitative research with a collaborative, innovation-focused environment.

Job Title

• Senior Network Security Engineer

Location

• Hybrid in Boston, MA — 1 day per week onsite and 4 days remote. Candidates must live in or relocate to a New England state, excluding Maine.

Role Type

• Direct Hire

Must Have Skills:

• 5–10 years of hands-on experience in network security, firewall administration, security operations engineering, network engineering, or a closely related role.
• Deep hands-on Next-Gen Firewall experience, ideally with Palo Alto Networks, Check Point, and/or Fortinet, including firewall policies, NAT, security profiles, VPN, URL filtering, threat prevention, logging, and lifecycle management.
• Strong enterprise networking fundamentals across TCP/IP, subnetting, routing, switching, DNS, DHCP, NAT, VPN, TLS, and HTTP/S, with the ability to troubleshoot Layer 3–7 issues.
• Proven ability to independently own production network security issues through investigation and resolution, including firewall changes/upgrades, incident response, and scheduled after-hours maintenance.
• Strong problem-solving skills with an adaptable mindset and willingness to learn new technologies.

Responsibilities and Job Details:

• Administer, maintain, troubleshoot, and continuously improve enterprise Next-Gen firewall infrastructure and associated security controls.
• Manage firewall policies, NAT, security profiles, zones, interfaces, objects, routing configurations, management portals, and rule-base hygiene.
• Configure and tune threat prevention, vulnerability protection, URL filtering, DNS security, sandboxing, decryption, and logging profiles.
• Support secure remote connectivity and VPN operations, including authentication, client connectivity, configuration, and user-impacting incidents.
• Troubleshoot complex Layer 3–7 network security issues using packet captures, traffic analysis, CLI/vendor tools, logs, and other diagnostic utilities.
• Leverage SIEM and AI/AIOps capabilities to identify threats, analyze network and firewall activity, prioritize incidents, and identify opportunities to improve security controls.
• Participate in firewall rule reviews, segmentation initiatives, access evaluations, control validation, and security cleanup activities.
• Plan and execute firewall maintenance, firmware upgrades, content updates, high-availability validation, license checks, and capacity monitoring.
• Partner closely with network engineering, infrastructure, cloud, identity, endpoint, application, and security teams.
• Maintain clear operational documentation, diagrams, procedures, runbooks, change records, and audit/control evidence.
• Take independent ownership of issues from initial investigation through escalation, resolution, and follow-up.
• Participate in incident response and scheduled after-hours maintenance when required.