Network Security Architect- Morning Shift - Full-time

Company Overview 

10Pearls is an award-winning end-to-end digital innovation company that helps businesses imagine and build the future. We are proud to announce that 10Pearls was named as winner of the Best Tech Work Culture Timmy Award in Washington DC by Tech in Motion, recognized on the Inc. 5000 Fastest-Growing Companies List, and was ranked the #1 Most Diverse Midsize Company in Greater Washington. We partner with businesses to help them transform, scale, and accelerate by adopting digital and exponential technologies. Our work has ranged from creating highly usable, secure digital experiences, mobile and software products, to helping businesses modernize through cloud adoption and development and the digitalization of their business processes. Our clientele is highly diverse, including Global 1000 enterprises, mid-market businesses, and even high-growth start-ups. But those are just the facts. What makes us unique is that we have true heart and soul. We have a strong focus on a double bottom line and actively support and engage with the communities where we live and work to make the world a better place. In a nutshell, we believe in doing well, while doing good and know how to balance the two.

Role
At 10Pearls , we are looking for an experienced Network Security Architect to join our Cyber Security team and play a critical role in designing, implementing, and managing enterprise-grade network security solutions for a leading banking client. The ideal candidate will possess deep expertise in network security architecture, firewall technologies, cloud security, and security operations, ensuring the confidentiality, integrity, and availability of critical infrastructure. This role involves driving security initiatives, leading complex infrastructure migrations, strengthening the organization's security posture, and collaborating with cross-functional teams to deliver secure, scalable, and resilient network environments while ensuring compliance with industry standards and regulatory requirements.

Reponsibilities

• Design, implement, administer, and maintain the Bank's network security architecture and security infrastructure.
• Manage and optimize enterprise security technologies including firewalls, web application firewalls (WAF), intrusion prevention systems (IPS), web proxies, email security, DDoS protection, database activity monitoring (DAM), cloud security, file integrity monitoring (FIM), load balancers, and multi-factor authentication (MFA) solutions.
• Ensure maximum availability, performance, and resilience of security infrastructure while meeting defined ITSM service level agreements (SLAs).
• Perform proactive monitoring, tuning, troubleshooting, and performance optimization of security appliances to identify and mitigate potential security threats.
• Execute security incident response, root cause analysis, problem management, and remediation activities for network security-related issues.
• Plan, execute, and support security projects, infrastructure upgrades, migrations, and implementation of new security technologies.
• Develop and maintain security architecture documentation, technical procedures, standards, and operational runbooks.
• Ensure compliance with the Bank's information security policies, regulatory requirements, security baselines, and audit standards.
• Evaluate security risks, recommend appropriate security controls, and implement solutions to enhance the organization's security posture.
• Support change management processes by reviewing, implementing, and validating security-related changes with minimal business disruption.
• Collaborate with infrastructure, cloud, application, and operations teams to integrate security best practices across the technology landscape.
• Provide technical guidance and subject matter expertise for network security technologies and emerging cyber security threats.
• Participate in business continuity, disaster recovery, vulnerability management, and security improvement initiatives.

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Cyber Security, or a related discipline.
• 10+ years of hands-on experience in Network Security, Cyber Security Operations, or Security Infrastructure Engineering.
• Strong expertise with enterprise security technologies including Check Point, Palo Alto, Cisco Firewalls/IPS, F5 WAF/LTM, Radware, Arbor DDoS, Forcepoint, FireEye, Zscaler, IBM Guardium, Tripwire, Microsoft EOP, Azure Cloud Security, Imprivata MFA/SSO, and Cisco networking.
• Solid understanding of network security architecture, firewalls, VPNs, IDS/IPS, web security, email security, cloud security, identity and access management, and zero trust principles.
• Experience with incident management, root cause analysis, change management, audit compliance, and security operations.
• Knowledge of regulatory compliance frameworks, information security standards, and banking security requirements.
• Experience managing security projects, migrations, and enterprise-scale security implementations.
• Strong analytical, troubleshooting, documentation, and problem-solving skills.
• Excellent communication, stakeholder management, and cross-functional collaboration abilities.
• Relevant certifications such as CISSP, CISM, CCNP Security, PCNSE, CCSE, Azure Security Engineer, or equivalent are highly preferred.