Are you looking for a challenging opportunity and want to take advantage of a great job to give new inpulse to your career? This offer is for you. In order to support one of our clients, a large and famous European Public Institution in Luxembourg, we are looking for a Cisco Firepower IPS Expert.
EKXEL IT Services, is a European leader in IT engineering, high-tech consulting and IT services. We offer a unique blend of expertise and support major European groups with international vocation to implement and succeed in their project to transform and modernize their information systems.

JOB DESCRIPTION:

• Manage the Cisco Firepower network probes installed in Production and in the Lab.
• Collaborate with the other teams in the unit to analyse the registered events
• and solve the possible incident.
• Select/Define/improve IDS/IPS signatures, policies and triggers .
• Deploy software/vulnerability/fingerprint updates .
• Improve detection capabilities by creating Splunk filters.
• Detect and minimize false positives .
• Investigate alerts, react, escalate and inform stakeholders accordingly .
• Possibly plan further expansion of the monitoring system .
• Write “response instructions” for common situations
• Production of documentation: for documenting the network monitoring activities, and the associated guidelines and procedures.

YOUR QUALIFICATIONS:

• University Degree in an ICT related fiel with a minimum of 8 years of professional experience in the domain of ICT and Network Security
• Excellent knowledge of Cisco Firepower IPS – ideally 8 years of experience
• Working experience in complex ICT enterprise environments and in the.associated security aspects.
• Experience with Splunk is required
• Excellent knowledge of Operating systems and good practices for their configuration ad protection
• Excellent knowledge of all kind of network and host security systems including: antivirus software, host intrusion detection and prevention, vulnerability assessment, data encryption, honey-pot, and hardening practices
• Excellent knowledge of network concepts and the associated security solutions. In particular the following topics must be known: Internet/Intranet/Extranet architectures; Authentication systems, Firewall, Proxies, Network IDS/IPS, PKI, e-mail gateways, IP security, Remote access control and violations, data protection and integrity, Encryption, Viruses
• Desirable knowledge of IT best practices (ITIL, COBIT, etc.)
• Very good knowledge of written and spoken English is required. Knowledge of French (B1 or higher) would be considered as asset

Please refer the Job description for details