Security Engineer

Shift: 1st shift hours from Monday-Friday
Duration: 06 Months
Pay range: $76.00- $96.00/hr. (Depending on experience level)
Hybrid Schedule, need local candidates

Job Description
• 4-year degree or equivalent experience
• 8+ years of network engineering, network visibility architecture, or network security engineering
• Experience designing and operating large-scale telemetry/visibility platforms (high-throughput packet capture, sensor fleets, log pipelines)
• Strong experience administering Linux (RHEL/CentOS, Ubuntu, or equivalent)
• Proven experience designing and operating enterprise configuration management and orchestration tools (e.g., Ansible, Salt, Puppet, Chef, Terraform, etc.)
• Demonstrates expertise in analysis and optimization of systems capacity, performance, and operational health
• Ability to diagnose issues across system, application, and network layers
• Experience working in production environments with change control and operational discipline
• Solid understanding of TCP/IP, routing protocols, VLANs, NAT, DNS, DHCP, and firewall concepts
• Scripting experience (Python, Bash, or similar) for automation and tooling
• Effectively communicate engineering solutions through detailed high- and low-level diagrams and documentation

Your Mission:
• Evaluate the current configuration management and orchestration environment, identifying gaps, risks, and opportunities for improvement. Based on your findings, design a modern, scalable solution and drive its end-to-end implementation from architecture through rollout to ensure a secure, reliable, and efficient operational foundation.
• Define architecture and engineering standards (patterns, guardrails, CI/CD, configuration governance) for the NSM platform.
• Lead design reviews and architectural decision records (ADRs); ensure solutions meet security, reliability, and operability requirements.
Additional skills we are interested in:
• Experience with optimizing the performance of: Security Onion, Zeek, Suricata, Snort
• Experience developing monitoring/testing frameworks
• Proficiency analyzing data within: Kibana, Splunk, Graylog
• Experience with: Linux, Docker, Git
• Practical experience with network packet analysis tools (Wireshark, tcpdump, etc.)
Employee Benefits:
At LanceSoft, full time regular employees who work a minimum of 30 hours a week or more are entitled to the following benefits:

• Four options of medical Insurance
• Dental and Vision Insurance
• 401k Contributions
• Critical Illness Insurance
• Voluntary Permanent Life Insurance
• Accident Insurance
• Other Employee Perks

About LanceSoft
LanceSoft is rated as one of the largest staffing firms in the US by SIA. Our mission is to establish global cross-culture human connections that further the careers of our employees and strengthen the businesses of our clients. We are driven to use the power of our global network to connect businesses with the right people, and people with the right businesses without bias. We provide Global Workforce Solutions with a human touch.