Network Security Engineer (Bucharest, RO)

Our mission is to help people integrate technology into everyday life and to enable innovation through technology. We offer software development and infrastructure solutions, with advanced competences in Blockchain, Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning. All our offices (in Western Europe or nearshore, in CEE) are located within the boundaries of the European Union. We believe working in close cooperation with our clients and employees is thekey to success; this means we offer people the best working environment in order to achieve the best results. We love entrepreneurial spirits and encourage people around us to be proactive and make the best decisions not only for business, but for their own personal development. Our nearshore Romanian offices are in Bucharest (Victoriei Square) and Iasi (Soseaua Nationala) and, with over 6000 team members at group level, we make sure we are always close to our customers.

What you will do:

• Work with next-generation firewalls, DDoS protection tools, load balancing appliances, reverse proxies, NAC/AAA, web and VPN gateways;
• Employ cutting-edge solutions from vendors such as F5, Palo Alto, Fortinet, Cisco.
• Develop, maintain, protect and troubleshoot a complex network infrastructure;
• Apply cloud architecture principles in designing and developing functional areas of a cloud, including automation, infrastructure, consumption platform, security;
• Automate repetitive tasks using tools like Ansible, Azure Pipelines, Terraform alongside Python, LUA, bash, etc …
• Keep an eye on the infrastructure with monitoring and alerting platforms such Zabbix, Grafana;
• Perform periodic administrative tasks, including software upgrades, lifecycle management and maintain regulatory controls;
• Proactively review the environment and take initiatives to reduce failures, defects and improve performance;
• Perform system checks based on monitoring events and correct any issues;
• Analyse the performance, do proactive troubleshooting, continuous improvement and capacity planning;
• Ensure timely and accurate resolution of the incidents on the administrated systems;
• Investigate problems in the production environment;
• Document tasks and changes, perform impact analysis to prevent any downtime;
• Maintain security and data integrity for infrastructure applications.

Requirements & technologies:

• University degree in Information Technology
• 3-5 years of experience in a similar position working with a large infrastructure.
• Professional experience with two of the following fields: IT Security, Networking, DevSecOPS;
• Experience with (some of) the following technologies: DDoS mitigation appliances, Next-Generation Firewalls (Palo Alto, Checkpoint), F5/NGiNX, WAF, NAC solutions, proxies.
• Knowledge of scripting / automation (Python, Bash, LUA, PowerShell, etc …) and orchestration platforms (Ansible, Azure Pipeline Automation, Terraform, etc … ) is a must.
• Good understanding of Windows / Linux operating systems with CLI.
• Relevant certifications such as CCNA/CCNP Security, CompTIA Security+, CEH, CISSP, CySA are a plus;
• Familiar with the agile way of working;
• Foreign language requirements: English B2 or higher.

Once on board we offer various programs and benefits:

• 22 Annual Vacation and 3 bonus days (that are not carried over the next year and do not require a medical certificate).
• 13th salary bonus at the end of the year.
• Floating days (free days for the public holiday that falls in weekend).
• Monthly budget of 690 RON gross and choose to invest in: meal tickets, private pension and insurance packages, holidays packages, gifts, cultural and entertainment activities, alongside exclusive offers from + 2000 providers.
• Private health insurance package for services covering prevention, diagnosis, and treatment.
• You can access an operational car leasing contract by supporting a fixed monthly installment which covers all operating costs of a car and other additional services (insurance, maintenance, repairs, and administrative cost).
• We do everything we can to help our employees grow and use their strengths through a facilitated personal development plan (Training Budget, Certifications in line with well-known vendors).