Public Partnerships
Sr Network Security Engineer
US Remote · Senior · Contract
Sponsorship not specified$53k-$800kDetected 30 days ago
AWSAzureCI/CDDevOpsCybersecurityNetwork SecuritySIEMSOC OperationsDetection EngineeringIncident ResponseComplianceTCP/IPDNSFirewallVPNWiresharkNetwork MonitoringZero TrustNetwork EngineeringHIPAALeadershipCommunicationCollaborationMentoring
About the role
- The Senior Network Security Engineer is a hands-on technical security leader responsible for ensuring that PPL's network environment - including its cloud-primary infrastructure in Microsoft Azure, secondary presence in AWS, Fortinet-protected physical locations, and remote-first workforce - is designed, configured, and operated in alignment with PPL's security requirements, standards, and regulatory obligations.
- Reporting to the Director of Cybersecurity Operations, this role defines network security requirements, reviews and validates network architecture and controls, performs security assessments and audits, and partners closely with the Infrastructure team's Sr.
- Network Engineer, who owns administration of PPL's network and network security devices.
Responsibilities
- Review and validate network architecture and design changes from a security perspective - providing requirements, recommendations, and sign-off as appropriate before changes are implemented by Infrastructure or Cloud Engineering.
- Evaluate, recommend, and provide security requirements for new network security technologies (SASE/SSE platforms, NDR, DNS security, etc.) that improve visibility, reduce risk, and support automation across the enterprise.
- Partner closely with the broader Infrastructure team - including the Sr.
- Collaborate with DevOps and Cloud Engineering teams to embed network security controls into infrastructure-as-code, CI/CD pipelines, and automated deployment patterns - ensuring network security is enforced consistently and at the speed of delivery.
- Partner with Application Development teams on secure application network design - reviewing API exposure, service-to-service communication, ingress/egress requirements, and third-party integration patterns to ensure new and existing applications align with PPL's network security standards.
- Lead periodic firewall rule reviews, segmentation validation, access-path analysis, and review of third-party network connections (vendor VPNs, B2B integrations, partner tunnels) and approved AI service connections to identify overly permissive rules, stale exceptions, and gaps against PPL's security standards
- partner with Infrastructure on remediation.
- Validate secure configuration of network and network security devices against industry benchmarks (e.g., CIS, Fortinet hardening guides, cloud provider best practices) and PPL's internal standards - through periodic reviews and continuous posture monitoring where available.
- Lead periodic firewall rule reviews, segmentation validation, access-path analysis, and review of third-party network connections (vendor VPNs, B2B integrations, partner tunnels) and approved AI service connections to identify overly permissive rules, stale exceptions, and gaps against PPL's security standards; partner with Infrastructure on remediation.
- Lead architecture-level network security review for new initiatives - including new applications, SaaS solutions, and IT purchases with network connectivity or data-flow implications - ensuring alignment with PPL's network security standards.
Requirements
- ability to review configurations, rules, and policies for security compliance.
Skills
- Demonstrated experience with network segmentation, micro-segmentation, and zero-trust networking principles.
- Proficiency in network protocols, routing, switching, TLS inspection, and packet/flow analysis suff
Compensation
- $53k-$800k
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