SENIOR /PRINCIPAL CYBER SECURITY ENGINEER (LJT)

Hungary - Budapest

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Currently we are looking for

SENIOR /PRINCIPAL CYBER SECURITY ENGINEER (LJT)

Location: Budapest, XI. district, hybrid (2 days/week in office)

Salary: competitive

Type of employment: Full Time Employee

Responsibilities:

Lead the end-to-end design, implementation, and lifecycle management of enterprise firewalls, including Palo Alto PAN-OS, Check Point Gaia, Fortinet, and Cisco Secure Firewall (FTD/FMC).
Architect and operate Cisco (IOS/NX-OS) and Arista (EOS/CloudVision) switching and routing infrastructure, including BGP, OSPF, VXLAN/EVPN, and segment routing across multi-site data centers.
Architect and optimize enterprise proxy, WAF, and load-balancing solutions, including Zscaler ZIA/ZPA, Blue Coat, HAProxy, NGINX, and F5 BIG-IP/ASM.
Design and enforce security posture for containerized workloads on OpenShift and Kubernetes using Cilium/eBPF network policies.
Build and own Infrastructure as Code (IaC) automation frameworks using Ansible, Terraform, Python, and Bash.
Architect SIEM logging pipelines (Splunk, CRIBL, XSOAR) and partner with SOC leadership on detection engineering maturity.
Establish observability frameworks across the security stack using Prometheus, Grafana, and Zabbix.
Act as a senior technical authority and escalation point, mentoring engineers and performing architecture reviews for critical network and security initiatives.
Define and enforce Linux system hardening baselines (CIS Benchmarks) across hybrid infrastructure environments.
Drive the design and governance of secure network architectures across on-premises, cloud, and containerized environments, ensuring scalability, resilience, and compliance.
Ensuring the completion of development tasks to support the new release of projects/solutions
Grooming user stories with Product Owner
Supporting production requests or fixing issues
Unit testing applications and reporting daily progress on daily stand-up meetings

Requirements:

10+ years of demonstrable, hands-on experience in cybersecurity or network security engineering within regulated enterprise environments.
Expert-level mastery of enterprise firewall platforms, HA clustering, and threat prevention architecture.
Extensive experience with Cisco and Arista network routing, switching, and VXLAN/EVPN fabrics.
Deep proficiency in Linux system administration, hardening, and enterprise automation (Ansible, Terraform, Python).
Mastery of core protocols (DNS, HTTP/S, BGP, OSPF, VXLAN, IPsec) and perimeter defense controls.
Excellent technical documentation, audit presentation, and stakeholder communication abilities.
5+ years of work experience with Python (Programming Language)
3+ years of work experience with Spring Framework
Confident English in written and spoken.
Candidate needs to be to be currently eligible to work in Hungary.

Good to have:

Target Certifications: CCIE Security, CCNP Security, ACE Expert (Level 7), ACE Professional, PCNSE, CCSE, NSE 7, or CISSP.
Experience in Tier 1 financial institutions or highly regulated environments adhering to PCI-DSS, ISO 27001, or NIST CSF.
Hands-on experience with Arista CloudVision, Cilium/eBPF container networking, and cloud security platforms (AWS, Azure, GCP).

To apply for this opportunity, please register your CV, or for more information call +36 70 617 9991 János Lipták