Systems Engineer IV – Blue Coat/Proxy

PlanIT Group•Reston, VA

2d•Onsite

About The Position

PlanIT Group is seeking a Systems Engineer IV – Blue Coat/Proxy to support our Federal customer in the Washington, DC area. The ideal candidate will be responsible for designing, implementing, securing, and maintaining proxy solutions to manage network traffic efficiently. They will ensure proper monitoring and optimization in maintaining a secure, efficient, and reliable network infrastructure through their expertise in proxy server technologies and network security practices. The Network Connectivity Platform (NCP) Team provides network technologies and infrastructure ensuring always on, always available systems to our employees, customers, and 32K sites. The Security Specialist (Proxy) are responsible for designing, implementing, securing, and maintaining proxy solutions to manage network traffic efficiently. They will ensure proper monitoring and optimization in maintaining a secure, efficient, and reliable network infrastructure through their expertise in proxy server technologies and network security practices. Resources must be available to work onsite at client facility in Raleigh, NC.

Requirements

HTTP proxy configuration, integration, and administration expertise.
Strong understanding of TCP/IP, UDP/IP, DNS, DHCP, HTTP/s and HTTP proxy.
Understanding of network, protocol and application traffic flows
Proficient on the architecture, design and deployment of these Symantec BlueCoat Product solutions: · o Advance Secure Gateway (ASG/SG) Proxies · o Management Center · o Reporter · o Web Security Services
Experience with other various IT technologies: o SNMP o Syslog o PKI o HSM o VPN

Nice To Haves

Experience with APIs, scripting, and Splunk data flows. Preferred Perl, python and JavaScript.
Strong understanding of HTTP proxy including circuit gateways (generic proxies)
Proficient with application layer protocols – HTTP, SSH, SSL, etc.

Responsibilities

Designing and implementing proxy solutions to route and manage network traffic effectively.
Implementing security measures on proxy servers to protect against cyber threats, monitoring network traffic for suspicious activities.
Optimizing proxy server performance through fine-tuning configurations, troubleshooting network issues, and improving performance.
Monitoring network traffic, proxy server logs, and system performance to ensure stability and reliability.
Ensuring proxy server configurations adhere to security standards, maintaining documentation, and records.
Collaborating with team members, providing technical support to end-users, and collaborating on network infrastructure needs.
Staying updated on proxy server technologies, recommending enhancements, and implementing improvements.
Responding to proxy server incidents, vulnerabilities, and security breaches in a timely and effective manner.
Leads assessment, design and technical implementation activities related to the Bluecoat product platforms
Documents solution requirements given business and technical objectives
Designs and implements pilot and production architecture given success criteria
Defines, creates, and maintains proxy policies
Executes SSL Interception with an integrated internal PKI environment
Understands various proxy authentication methods with relation to a domain environment
Executes production deployment criteria to complete a job
Leads root cause analysis and troubleshooting effort for production deployment
Functions as a liaison between the client and Symantec Support
Competent in reporting issues, anomalies and problems through proper channels (i.e., account management, technical support)
Provides incident status reports as required
Achieves Key Performance Indicators
Performs other duties relevant to deployment and security operations assigned
Works on high-visibility, or mission critical aspects of a given program, and performs all functional duties independently.
Oversees the efforts of direct reporting resources and/or be responsible for the efforts of all staff assigned to a specific job.