
Lead Network Security Specialist Infrast
ROCHESTER, NYJob$106–133K/yrSeen 3 days agoSeen in employer's feed 3 days ago
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The Lead Network Security Specialist serves as a senior technical advisor implementing enterprise network security solutions and leading technical work for the OSG Infrastructure team supporting critical infrastructure. The role translates business requirements into secure network solutions and process designs, maintains regulatory compliance and security controls for critical SCADA systems, and provides on-call support and technical mentoring.
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Position Information Job Title: Lead Network Security Specialist Infrastructure Location: Rochester, NY Salary Range: $106,000 - $132,500 Schedule: On Site, Office, 5 days Job Summary Serves as senior technical advisor responsible for implementing enterprise network security solutions using current and emerging technologies. Leads the engineering, installation, maintenance and administration of technical aspects for the OSG Infrastructure team supporting Critical Infrastructure. Responsible for translating business requirements into secure network solutions or process designs. Key Responsibilities Provide timely responses to all incidents, tasks and requests assigned to meet Service Level Agreements. Work with internal clients, suppliers/contractors, project teams and other technical staff to identify, design and support technical solutions. Design, plan and implement changes to the environment for improvements or projects Provide maintenance of infrastructure technologies following the change management process Lead the technical implementation plans in support of infrastructure technologies Leads others to solve problems Leads contractors to deliver services to projects and or operational duties as needed Leads functional teams or projects as assigned Lead the evaluation, selection, and testing of hardware and software products Maintain regulatory compliance under NERC/CIP guidelines Maintain high quality security controls surrounding the critical SCADA systems Perform/coordinate special assignments from OSG Infrastructure Management Provide 24x7 on call support Provide professional and technical mentoring for team members Required Qualifications Education and Experience Required: AS Technical Related Degree with 12+ years' technical experience, or BS Technical Related Degree with 8+ years' technical experience; or MS Technical Related Degree with 5+ years' technical experience Position requires a minimum of ten (10) years' experience working with infrastructure solutions in an enterprise environment Position requires professional experience with more than one of the following areas: Data Center Operations, Disaster Recover/Business Continuity Planning & Execution, Security & Compliance Management, Infrastructure Operational Policies & Procedures, and/or Technical Project Coordination Position requires Operational experience in an Enterprise Environment configuring and maintaining Cisco Routers/Switches/Firewalls such as Cisco Nexus 9K, Cisco Catalyst, Cisco ASR Routers, Cisco 4K Routers, Cisco ISE, Cisco Firepower, Cisco ASA Position requires Operational experience in an Enterprise Environment configuring and maintaining Next generation firewalls such as Checkpoint and Palo Alto Skills/ Abilities: Expert within network infrastructure, operations & network security Proficient in professional standards and trends within area of expertise Proficient in deploying Checkpoint, Palo Alto, Cisco ASA firewalls along with implementing VPN's Knowledge of multiple security technologies, to include network security, NAC, Micro segmentation, network security architecture Implementing security technologies such as SAML and PKI Infrastructure Network Access Control systems in a large enterprise Experience with authentication systems such as RADIUS, TACACS+, SSO, LDAP Experience planning, researching, and developing security policies, standards, and procedures Experience with architecting in cloud environments (AWS, Azure, and GCP) SD-WAN and other tunneling\encryption transport technologies Network Security Automation and DevOps Strong Routing and Switching experience (BGP, OSPF, VPC, VXLAN, vain traffic engineering, Multicast, etc. Preferred Qualifications Experience with packet capture software such as Wireshark, WinDump, tcpdump, etc. Experience with installing and configuring Citrix Netscalers in an Enterprise High Availability environment Experience with installing and configuring Cisco ISE in a distributed deployment with multiple pe
How this job compares
Set against the 1,032 open Security Engineering jobs on Olive Jobs, counted November 3, 2026.
- Pay
- This posting$106–133K/yr
- New York median$170–255K/yr48 salary ranges
- US median$166–257K/yr875 salary ranges
This range's midpoint, $119K, is 45% below the New York median midpoint ($218K) — in the lowest quarter of Security Engineering salary ranges in New York.
- Openings
- Olive Jobs lists 77 open Security Engineering jobs in New York and 1,032 across the US. 8% of them nationwide are listed as remote or flexible.
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- Education
- 181 of the 1,032 open Security Engineering jobs (18%) ask for a bachelor's degree or higher.
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