**Level**: Project Manager**Area**: Network Security**Status**: Contract**Network Security Engineer Duties and Responsibilities**:While the day-to-day duties of a network security engineer are determined by their employer, there are many core tasks associated with the role. Based on our analysis of job listings, these include:**Testing for Network Vulnerabilities**Network security engineers work with a larger information security team to evaluate, test, and troubleshoot technologies. They're expected to identify, diagnose, and resolve information security issues.**Prepare Reports**Based on findings, network security engineers write comprehensive reports includingassessment-based findings, outcomes, and propositions for further system security enhancement.**Produce Documentation**To ensure proper protocols and processes are in place, network security engineers create and maintain comprehensive documentation related to server and security infrastructure.**Create Network Security Policies**Network security engineers play a role in devising comprehensive network security policies. This includes determining security issues that need to be addressed; identifying security strategies needed to deal with the risks; implementing policies for allocating administrative tasks; keeping on top of audit logs to flag suspicious activity; and devising network password procedures.**Manage Vendor Relationships**To be successful in this role, it's important to keep strong relationships with integrators and vendors to maintain upgrades, installations, and planning alongside the exploration of new features and innovative solutions.**Soft Skills**:- ** Enterprise firewall experience** - experience configuring and managing enterprise firewalls and gateway devices is important in this role.- **Communication skills** - it's crucial that network security engineers have the ability to communicate network security issues to peers and management clearly and effectively.- **- **Problem-solving skill** **- it's the network security engineer's job to solve problems. Security incidents can happen at any time and it's expected that these engineers will research, escalate, and resolve issues effectively**Tools of the Trade**:Network security engineers often use the following tools in their work:- Cisco and Fortinet- LAN/WAN concepts- Application firewalls, SIEM, IDS/IPS- Unix and Windows**Required Skills**:Soft Skills Project Manager Information Security Firewalls Network Security Engineer Audit Features Analysis Infrastructure Unix Engineers Security Vendors Research Windows Documentation Testing Communication Planning Management
