Senior Security Engineer Check Point

Are you looking for a Senior Security Engineer position with a leading Chicago technology organization? Are you looking for a position that encourages you to continue your professional growth with real world hands on exposure to a wide variety of today’s security and networking technologies? We are seeking to add an experienced engineer to our Managed Services team. Candidates should thrive in an open, fast-paced environment with a range of learning opportunities. This position will report to our Chicago office and service clients generally in the Chicagoland area.

We are a full service network security and networking consultant team headquartered in Chicago, Illinois. We also maintain top-tier partnerships with industry leading hardware and software companies such as Check Point, Citrix, Juniper, Riverbed, Cisco, F5, Microsoft, and NetApp.

Responsibilities:

  • Support our customer’s engineers with questions or issues they may have
  • Effectively interact with customers whose skills may range to Level 3 expert network engineers
  • Engineer and implement Managed Services solutions
  • Occasional face to face interactions with customers in pre-sales support role, installations, or onsite projects.
  • Design, build & configure firewalls, servers, routers and other IT appliances
  • Document and diagram clients environments

The following are essential for this position:

  • Must have experience with an emphasis on client or customer support as a security and network engineer
  • Must have solid current hands-on expertise with Check Point’s technologies – certification highly desired
  • Additionally, Citrix, Juniper, Riverbed, NetApp experience and certifications a plus
  • Proven record of organization and documentation skills
  • Minimum of 3-5 years security, network engineering and support experience.
  • Self-motivated and comfortable in a fast-paced startup culture.
  • A “smart risk-taker” marked by creativity and strong problem solving skills.
  • Excellent interpersonal and communication skills (written and oral).
  • BA/BS in information technology or related field, or equivalent experience.
  • Expertise with a variety of tools used for monitoring and managing networks

If you feel that your skills are a match to our requirements, please submit your resume with desired salary and salary history to resume@rkon.com for consideration.