Infrastructure Security Engineer

Job Title: Infrastructure Security Engineer
Location: Cincinnati, Ohio 45202 (Hybrid)
Duration: 8-month contract

Responsibilities:
• Work in a team-based environment to support, maintain, and innovate Client's Cyber Range
• Install, configure, and manage on-premise network, compute, and storage hardware
• Design and manage complex network topologies, including segmented and simulated threat environments.
• Develop and maintain comprehensive documentation for Cyber Range infrastructure, configurations, and operations.
• Maintain awareness of emerging industry security technologies, technology issues, regulatory issues and practices
• Provides Information Security subject matter expertise in various risk assessments (inherent and then define the residual risk of a target state)
• Weighs business needs against security concerns and recommends necessary changes to enhance information systems security
• Ensures adherence to compliance with regulations and policies
• Support cyber training exercises, red/blue team operations, and system simulations.
• May be required to lift computer equipment up to 50 lbs.

Basic Qualifications
• Typically a Bachelor's degree, or equivalent work experience
• Typically eight or more years of relevant experience
• Thorough understanding of the applicable information security systems, policies, and procedures
• Effective communication, presentation skills, leadership, problem-solving and analytical skills
• Proven collaboration and influencing skills

Experience should include
• Experience in configuring networking devices, cloud environments, and operating systems including Windows/Linux/macOS
• bility to create custom queries, dashboards, and reporting metrics
• Intermediate scripting experience (Bash, Python, PowerShell)
• Experience with agile methodologies
• Strong verbal and written communication skills
• Experience using APIs
• Experience using CI/CD pipelines
• Hands-on experience implementing infrastructure as code, automated configuration, and environment provisioning workflows.
• Working knowledge of Git workflows and best practices
• Working knowledge of information security architecture, security technologies, administration, and network and internet security
• Strong verbal and written communication skills

Summary of the project/initiatives:
This position will be providing physical and logical support of the Bank's cyber range environments - both the on-site Range environment in Cincinnati Tower and our AWS range. Activities may include physical support activities (racking/unracking devices in the Range room, cabling, etc.) along with logical support activities, including networking device changes, Client work, patching/upgrading of systems, etc. There is also a user support element. We service approximately 50 internal users across multiple teams in the Range, and if users have issues accessing necessary resources, this person will help support

Top 5-10 responsibilities:
Experience in configuring networking devices, cloud environments, and operating systems including Windows/Linux/macOS
Ability to create custom queries, dashboards, and reporting metrics
Intermediate scripting experience (Bash, Python, PowerShell)
Experience with agile methodologies
Strong verbal and written communication skills
Experience using APIs
Experience using CI/CD pipelines
Hands-on experience implementing infrastructure as code, automated configuration, and environment provisioning workflows.
Working knowledge of Git workflows and best practices
Working knowledge of information security architecture, security technologies, administration, and network and internet security
Strong verbal and written communication skills

What skills/technologies are required (please include the number of years of experience required)?
Intermediate scripting experience (e.g. Bash, PowerShell, Python) - 3 years
MacOS - 3 years
Networking (Juniper and/or Palo Alto) - 3 years
Client administration - 3 years

What skills/attributes are preferred (these are a desired, not required)?
API implementation
CI/CD Pipeline experience
GIT workflows