Senior Network Security Engineer

Create your best future and join Network Services Team as a Senior Network Security Engineer.     What’s the role?

Responsible for managing, testing, and implementing changes to network security infrastructure. Requires 8+ years of hands-on experience in complex IT environments, ideally within the financial sector. Must work well both independently and in teams, and adapt to changing business needs.

Key Duties:

• Installation, configuration and upgrade hardware, systems and software for networks.
• Management of network and security performance by monitoring, troubleshooting, reporting and continuous improvement to optimise performance. 
• Identify, analyse and manage risk at every aspect of work.
• Secures network system by establishing and enforcing policies, defining and monitoring access.
• Undertake project design and architecture work, like High-level and detailed design work.
• Provide technical consultation to business/technology stakeholders to support relevant infrastructure partners and other business stakeholders.

What do I need?

Experience: Minimum 8 years of hands-on experience in complex IT environments.

Technical Skills:

• Strong hands-on and recent experience on Next-gen enterprise firewalls (Juniper SRX and Fortigate) with focus on firewall configuration, build, routing and security policy analysis and compliance. 
• Experience on developing low-level design document for enterprise security architecture. Load Balancing design, build and implementation experience (F5 – LTM, GTM, APM), building proxies and authentication profiles. 
• Enterprise Switching and Routing configuration experience (BGP/OSPF, VXLAN, VTP, BFD) IPS/IDS policy configuration, implementation and events analysis. 
• Exposure and working knowledge of Logging platform like elastic, splunk etc. Exposure to monitoring tools like Netscout, Solarwinds,Thousand-eyes, Accedian, etc 
• Experience on using Automation and scripting skills (python, Json, ansible, etc) Relevant Industry certificate on above technologies is a good to have.

General Skills:

• Strong presentation and communication skills. 
• Able to demonstrate strong stakeholder engagement, converting business requirements into technical requirements. 
• Self-motivated and self-driven Collaboration and teamwork mindset Ability to handle pressure situation at work and prioritise delivery with multiple teams. 
• Good understanding of process, standards and compliance requirements and understanding of Risks and mitigation techniques.

Why join us?
  We’re obsessed with becoming our customers' #1 banking partner for life and we’re looking for people who are passionate about helping us achieve that goal. In return, we’re committed to making Westpac the best place to work in the country. Here are just a few of the ways we’re already doing that:

• Special offers on banking products and discounts from top brands, including generous employee-only mortgage rates!
• Flexible work arrangements to help you achieve a greater work/life balance, and a variety of leave options including Culture, Lifestyle and Wellbeing leave. 
• Tailored learning and development opportunities to help your grow your career within the bank. 
• Lots of opportunities to ‘give back’ to the Community by getting involved in our many volunteering initiatives.

Create your future today
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