- Communicate and coordinate designs and documentation with external vendors and internal technology focused teams, including senior management

- Lead the onboarding, deployment, and integration of Secure IoT firewalls into business-as-usual Morgan Stanley systems and processes

- Lead operational support for multiple network security solutions (e.g. GCP cloud native firewalls and/or Fortinet / Palo Alto third-party vendor solutions)

- L3 operational support, including incident management and troubleshooting advanced issues and collaborating with technology peers internally and externally (e.g. vendors)

- Implement monitoring of products and services to ensure a healthy and resilient infrastructure

- Potential for off hour coverage via mobile phone (e.g. as part of an operational oncall system)

- Creation/supplementation of operational runbooks

- Assist in knowledge transfer (e.g. training global teammates via video recordings)

Skills

Technical skills

- Knowledge and experience with common network security solutions (e.g. firewalls, Virtual Private Networks (VPNs), Network Address Translation (NAT), etc.)

- Knowledge of packet filtering and stateful packet inspection

- Knowledge and experience in cloud environments

- Scripting in any of the popular languages or tools (e.g. shell scripts, Python, Ansible, Github, Data pipeline, integration with third party vendor APIs)

- Knowledge of fundamental on networking (e.g. routing, switching, VLANs, etc.)

- Experience with host security (e.g., iptables, host-based firewalls)





- Familiarity with Change Management and incident response techniques

- Active interest in IT Security and general knowledge of Information Security

- Excellent written and oral communication skills; fluent English is required

- Strong interpersonal and communication skills; capable of writing documentation, making presentations to internal audience, and interacting positively with management, colleagues and customers

- Independent problem-solving, highly motivated, and self-directing

- Comfortable working in an engineering and support team with potential for heavy end user interaction

- Ability to handle constantly changing flow of traffic; remain productive during slow times, be able to multitask effectively during busy times, exercise patience and professionalism during stressful situations.

Desired Skills

- Having skills and experience in the areas below is a major plus and will help the candidate integrate with the team and setting:

- Experience with any of the firewall platforms: Fortinet, Palo Alto, Juniper, etc.

- Understanding of networking and routing protocols (e.g. static routing, BGP, etc.)

- Strong understanding of networking fundamentals (OSI model, TCP Stack, network design)

- Experience in customer support and experience in interacting with business users

- Senior years of network security administration experience; preferably in the Financial Services sector.

- Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or IT equivalent to the is required.

The firm require people to work in office at least 3 days a week, long term work from home is not an option.

📌 Network Security Engineer (Montreal)
🏢 Tekshapers
📍 Montreal