Founded in 1841, Fordham is the Jesuit University of New York, offering an exceptional education distinguished by the Jesuit tradition to more than 16,000 students in its nine colleges and schools. It has residential campuses in the Bronx and Manhattan, a campus in West Harrison, N.Y., the Louis Calder Center Biological Field Station in Armonk, N.Y., and the London Centre in the United Kingdom.
The University offers a comprehensive benefits package that includes medical, dental, and vision insurance; flexible spending accounts; retirement plans; life insurance; short and long-term disability; employee assistance program (EAP); tuition remission; and generous time off.
Successful candidates should have a knowledge of and commitment to the goals of Jesuit Education.
Department: DevOps Infrastructure
Campus: Rose Hill (RH) - Bronx
Position Summary:
Reporting to the Director of Infrastructure Services, the Senior Network Security Analyst supports the security of the network infrastructure utilizing a variety of hardware. These systems are currently made up of Cisco, Alcatel and possibly Palo Alto, Fortinet or SDN based firewall from Versa Networks.
Responsibilities also include supporting the University's virtual private networks currently using Pulse and Juniper systems; configuring and supporting the security apparatus for Azure and AWS; and assisting clients with writing, reviewing, and pushing firewall rules. The analyst will also take part in projects, on premise or cloud, requiring application security.
Essential Functions:
Regular Upgrades
Reviews security advisories
Addresses zero day threats
Researches version compatibility
Upgrades all firewalls( production, QA and PCI) systems
Supports change requests
Cleans up firewall ruleset
Supports the configuration of rules associated with Azure and AWS
Regularly upgrades the VPN to keep in accordance with security advisories
Network Maintenance
Monitors and analyzes data to improve system performance
Monitors network usage and security issues.
Deploys patches to mitigate any threat to systems
Responds to issues affecting the network architecture
Supports ticket resolution associated to the network architecture
Supports work and tickets associated to the operation of the firewall
Supervises student workers
Analyses
Makes use of SUMO logic to analyze captured data from disparate network systems
Supports security team with data from firewall and network equipment
Uses measuring and diagnostic tools to test and adjust networking equipment
Supports capacity planning
Utilizes data to modify and support modifications to the network
Technology
Manages:
Cisco ASA and Firepower
Pulse VPN and similar
Securing VoIP and other realtime applications
SDN based security
IoT based security
Required Qualifications:
Bachelor's degree, or in lieu of a Bachelor's 7+ years relevant experience
7+ years relevant experience
3 years experience working with network infrastructure
Preferred Qualifications:
Strong understanding of technical, business and cultural environment of higher education in general and Fordham in particular
Demonstrated expertise in:
Supporting complex systems architectures, specifications and applications
Resource acquisition and management
Execution of project plans and delivery of results
Analytical/problem solving and technical skills
Customer service
Ability to interact professionally with staff, faculty and students
Work experience and validated training with IT certification will be considered.
Fordham Founded in 1841, Fordham is the Jesuit University of New York, offering an exceptional education distinguished by the Jesuit tradition to more than 16,000 students in its 9 colleges and schools. It has residential campuses in the Bronx and Manhattan, a campus in West Harrison, N.Y., the Louis Calder Center Biological Field Station in Armonk, N.Y., and the London Centre in the United kingdom.