Sr. Security Engineer with Extensive Compliance Planning Experience Employment Type : Full Time Employment (FTE) Position Job Description/Responsibilities: Perform all Firewall Maintenance, including upgrades, rulesets, logging. * Day to day security engineering * Patch Management processes and procedures * Manage Secure Backup Procedures * Evaluate security products and solutions * Be the SME for compliance initiatives * Review Logs across all platforms * Implement HIDS/NIDS Top Skills: Firewall Maintenance Tacacs+ Qualifications: The ideal person will be capable of working in diverse situations and have a minimum of 5 years experience in the information security industry. Strong candidates will have deep and recent hands-on experience designing and implementing security solutions in large and complex environments. Significant experience reviewing and implementing security policies and procedures and an understanding of compliance issues is desirable. Suitable communication and interpersonal skills are required. Demonstrable detailed knowledge of networking and security countermeasures design is mandatory. Significant experience deploying and troubleshooting firewalls in various architectures is required. Strong candidates will have experience conducting security assessments using commercial and open source host scanning tools, network scanning tools, and web and database vulnerability assessment tools. Working knowledge of cryptography applications, methods, systems and protocols is expected. Candidate should have interest in intrusion prevention, content filtering technologies, wireless networking and security, authentication and identity management, and application security. Working Experience in the Financials Industry (optional) The Company: Top Financial Company needing a Sr. Security Engineer, located in Downtown Chicago. Compensation: Competitive Hourly Rate Benefits 401K To Apply: E-mail your Word resume to and include the JOB TITLE, POSITION ID and your full contact information. *** IT Ascent is a premier IT consulting company with a flexible person, team, project approach that allows us to connect experienced consultants with positions at our more than 40 Fortune-ranked clients in the financial service, life science, technology and public sectors. Experience: Desired skills: . To Apply to this job go to http://www.GadBall.com or click here