Mid Level Network Security Analyst Jobs

Title: Network Security Engineer

Location: Chandler, AZ

Alternate Location: Charlotte, NC

Duration: 24 months

Work Engagement: W2

Work Schedule: 3 days in office/2 days remote

Benefits on offer for this contract position: Health Insurance, Life insurance, 401K and Voluntary Benefits

Summary:

We are seeking a Senior Information Security Engineer with a strong background in Network Security, Firewall Engineering, and Security Architecture to support a large enterprise environment. This role will focus on designing, implementing, and managing firewall policies, securing network communications, and ensuring adherence to enterprise security standards and least-privilege principles. The ideal candidate will be a hands-on security engineer with experience supporting both infrastructure and application-related network traffic, collaborating closely with Security Architecture, Infrastructure Engineering, and Principal Engineering teams to identify risks, drive remediation efforts, and strengthen the organization's security posture.

Responsibilities:

• Design, implement, refine, and manage firewall rules and policies aligned with least-privilege access principles.

• Review and analyze network traffic flows to ensure secure communication between applications, infrastructure, and external services.

• Support infrastructure security initiatives and drive remediation of security findings, policy violations, and baseline compliance gaps.

• Manage infrastructure security exceptions, risk assessments, and escalations.

• Partner with Security Architecture, Infrastructure Engineering, and Principal Engineers to ensure alignment with enterprise security standards.

• Evaluate and implement security controls that support confidentiality, integrity, and availability objectives.

• Assist with application and infrastructure segmentation strategies to reduce security risk.

• Conduct security reviews and provide recommendations based on industry best practices.

• Research emerging threats, vulnerabilities, and technologies and recommend appropriate security measures.

• Support risk management, threat identification, monitoring, incident response, access management, and business continuity initiatives.

• Perform in-depth security analysis and troubleshooting to resolve complex network security issues.

• Ensure compliance with corporate security policies, standards, and regulatory requirements.

Required Qualifications:

• Applicants must be authorized to work for ANY employer in the U.S. This position is not eligible for visa sponsorship.

• 4+ years of Information Security Engineering experience.

• Strong hands-on experience with Network Security Engineering.

• Experience managing and configuring firewalls, firewall rules, security policies, and network segmentation controls.

• Demonstrated experience applying least-privilege access principles.

• Experience supporting and securing infrastructure environments, not solely application security.

• Knowledge of security architecture concepts and application/infrastructure segmentation.

• Ability to independently research, analyze, troubleshoot, and resolve security issues.

• Strong analytical, problem-solving, and communication skills.

• Experience collaborating with cross-functional technical teams.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience in financial services, banking, or other highly regulated environments.

• Experience with enterprise-scale security architecture initiatives.

• Exposure to risk management and security governance practices.

• Familiarity with enterprise infrastructure technologies and hybrid environments.

• Experience supporting large-scale firewall environments and complex network architectures.