About this opportunity
The Planet Group lists this Senior Network Engineer opportunity in tacoma, Washington. Review the employer’s description below for duties, qualifications and application requirements.
Job description
Location: Remote
Duration: 10 months
Key Responsibilities:
Firewall and ACL Governance:
Audit & Rationalization : Systematically review and audit existing firewall rule sets and Access Control Lists (ACLs) across the global enterprise to eliminate redundant, outdated, or overly permissive entries.
Policy Management : Assist in developing and enforcing standardized management procedures for all firewall and ACL modifications, ensuring every change aligns with established security policies and compliance frameworks.
Network Segmentation & Isolation:
Architectural Review : Evaluate and enhance network segmentation strategies—including micro-segmentation—to minimize the attack surface and prevent lateral movement by malicious actors.
Trust Zone Enforcement : Design and implement new VLANs and routing policies to ensure rigorous logical separation between diverse trust zones, including Student, Faculty, Research, IoT, and Administrative networks.
Legacy Infrastructure Decommissioning:
Cleanup Operations : Identify and execute the orderly decommissioning of legacy network segments, unused VLANs, and obsolete hardware configurations.
Infrastructure Migration : Lead the remediation and consolidation of specialized networks, specifically focusing on the phase-out and migration of the OpNet infrastructure to modern, standardized platforms.
Documentation & Compliance:
Topology Management : Maintain accurate, high-fidelity network topology diagrams and documentation for all security-related changes and segmentation schemes.
Regulatory Alignment : Validate that all network cleanup and security activities adhere strictly to internal GOIS (Global Office of Information Security) mandates and external regulatory standards.
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