Symantec's MSS practice looking for security device expert - Alexandria, VA

From: <jim_kirkpatrick(at)symantec.com>
Date: Tue Jul 29 2003 - 18:53:44 EDT

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Location: Alexandria, VA

This is a senior level position within Symantec's Managed Security Services development team working as the product expert in all supported security devices. The primary focus of this position is to be extensively familiar with industry-leading firewalls and network/host intrusion detection systems on the marketplace. Examples of supported products: Symantec Enterprise Firewall (Raptor), Check Point FW-1, Cisco PIX, Snort, Dragon, and ManHunt.

Work will involve setting up and testing security products to learn and gather information. Environment is a high-energy, fast moving environment with rapid development cycles.

Responsibilities in order of priority:

1. Product Expert in all supported Firewalls and Network/Host Intrusion Detection Systems. Knows how to install products, obtain and use licenses, setup hardware, and contact vendors for all of our supported products. Knows how to tweak products to extract all possible information. Role requires strong communication skills, creating informational presentations for other groups within the division, and produce documentation for distribution.
2. Product Expert with focus on signatures. The emphasis is to evaluate quality of each product in terms of security value. Assessing the depth and breadth of each IDS signature or firewall filter capability is a key responsibility. In-depth knowledge of TCP/IP, networking, exploits, and current hot vulnerabilities is important. Setting up and configuring the lab environment to attack test devices to gather real data is a key requirement.
3. Security consultant for development of new features to the Symantec Managed Security Service. In depth knowledge in security policies, exploits, and vulnerabilities will be used to make recommendation to new features for the SMSS. In addition, position will be responsible for locking down various firewalls in the development infrastructure.
4. Provide advanced level 3 technical support to various groups within the organization including Sales, Operations, Analysis, and Product Management.

Received on Wed Jul 30 00:41:19 2003