Senior Network Security Engineer

Join Baylor College of Medicine in Houston as a senior engineer responsible for designing, implementing, and operating enterprise network security capabilities.

Responsibilities

• Design, implement, configure, and maintain Baylor enterprise network security infrastructure, including firewalls, application load balancers, VPN, SD-WAN security, intrusion prevention, and related security platforms.
• Create secure solutions that are highly available, scalable, and aligned with best practices and organizational requirements.
• Lead root cause investigation, troubleshooting, resolution, and documentation for complex network security and infrastructure incidents.
• Act as a senior escalation point, identifying root causes and corrective actions to prevent recurrence.
• Identify, assess, and prioritize security risks tied to network infrastructure and services.
• Participate in security reviews, assessments, and technology evaluations to strengthen Baylor’s security posture.
• Collaborate with OIT Security and Compliance to develop and maintain security policies, procedures, standards, and guidelines.
• Ensure security infrastructure alignment with organizational, regulatory, and industry requirements.
• Provide senior-level technical guidance and consulting across security architecture, infrastructure design, and implementation.
• Mentor junior technical staff and promote secure, reliable, scalable, and supportable solutions.
• Serve as a senior technical resource for security projects, including technology evaluation, design, implementation, migration, and lifecycle management.
• Coordinate technical activities to support successful implementation delivery.
• Improve security operations using automation, monitoring, and process improvements.
• Leverage scripting and orchestration to improve efficiency, consistency, and scalability.
• Own one or more security services and continuously improve security, reliability, performance, and operational efficiency.
• Use automation, AI, ServiceNow, and emerging technologies to strengthen security posture, improve operational efficiency, reduce manual effort, and enhance security visibility and response.
• Perform other job-related duties as assigned.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree. Four years of relevant experience may substitute for the degree requirement.
• Four years of relevant experience.

Technical Skills and Tools

• Firewalls, application load balancers, VPN, SD-WAN security, intrusion prevention
• Scripting, orchestration, automation, AI, ServiceNow
• SolarWinds
• Micro segmentation, Network Access Control, URL filtering, IDS/IPS
• Packet capture, protocol analysis
• Spreadsheets
• TCP/IP, subnetting, routing, switching

Additional Role Details

• Time allocation: 60-70% project work and 30-40% operational daily work.
• On-call: participates in an on-call rotation roughly every 10 weeks.
• Smartphone coverage: carries a Smartphone for 24 x 7 x 365 response to business-related matters and is financially responsible for it.
• Titles: internal title Senior IT Security Associate; working title Senior Network Security Engineer.

Preferred Qualifications and Skills

• 5 years of general IT experience.
• 7-10 years of data security and/or data networking experience.
• Advanced ability to implement, configure, troubleshoot, and secure enterprise security technologies, including firewalls, VPNs, micro segmentation, Network Access Control, Application Load Balancers, URL filtering, and IDS/IPS.
• Strong understanding of enterprise networking concepts including TCP/IP, subnetting, routing, switching, and network segmentation.
• Advanced ability to analyze network traffic using packet capture and protocol analysis to troubleshoot complex security and connectivity issues.
• Strong understanding of secure network architecture, high availability, and integration of security controls across LAN, WAN, data center, and cloud environments.
• Excellent written, verbal, interpersonal, and technical communication skills, including cross-team collaboration and senior-level guidance.
• Proficiency in spreadsheets and other analysis tools.
• Ability to use SolarWinds and other monitoring/management tools to analyze performance, identify trends, create alerts, support operational decisions, and drive continuous improvement.
• Demonstrated ability to lead infrastructure and security projects of varying sizes, manage priorities, coordinate cross-functional teams, and adapt to changing requirements.

Work Authorization

• Not eligible for visa sponsorship.
• Candidates must be legally authorized to work in the United States at the time of application and throughout employment.

Location: Houston, TX (onsite)
Salary: USD 111,118 - 130,728 per year