Networking/Security Engineer - Ad Hoc LLC : Job Details

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Ad Hoc is a technology company that empowers organizations to deliver scalable, impactful digital services. Using modern, agile methods, our team creates products that meet people's needs and transform their experience of government.

In this role, you will serve as an emerging subject matter expert, while acting as an individual contributor with a high level of trust, autonomy and empowerment. With minimal oversight from leadership, you will be responsible for leading and monitoring the ability to meet scope, schedule and delivery requirements and may support adjacent programs with the business unit. A Staff Security and Compliance Manager exhibits strong influential skills to represent the security and compliance practice in planning sessions, advocating for the best technical solution, while communicating tradeoffs. You will serve as the primary lead and proactively communicate with stakeholders, while using strong influential skills to drive improvements in security and compliance processes and practices.

Basic Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in computer science, information assurance, cybersecurity or related field, 9+ years of experience
• Relevant years of experience may be substituted for education

Mandatory Qualifications

• Skyhigh SWG (SkyHigh)
• 3+ years administering Skyhigh Secure Web Gateway in production (>10k users).
• Expert in policy hierarchy/inheritance, object & list management, staged rollout (test/pilot/prod), logging export, versioning, rollback.

• Proxy Engineering
• Forward/reverse proxy modes; explicit vs transparent; PAC/WPAD design and distribution.
• SSL/TLS inspection: cert chains, pinning impacts, ALPN, HTTP/2 behavior, auth flows (Kerberos/NTLM, SAML/OIDC).
• Safe bypass strategies (domain/SNI/IP/risk-based) without degrading coverage.

• Layer 3 & Internet Fundamentals
• Routing & addressing (CIDR, MTU/fragmentation/PMTUD, NAT44/66, VRFs), basic BGP/OSPF, DNS recursion/forwarding and failure modes.

• Ports & Protocols
• TCP/UDP behavior, ephemeral ranges, TLS handshake/SNI, and middlebox interactions (no QUIC/HTTP-3 requirement).

• PCRE
• Writes and reviews complex PCRE (lookarounds, backreferences, atomic groups) with an eye for performance (avoid catastrophic backtracking).

• Troubleshooting: Packets + Analytics
• tcpdump/Wireshark proficiency (TLS/HTTP analysis, TCP dynamics).
• Log correlation at scale (e.g., Splunk/ELK) to isolate issues off-box (client, network, IdP, upstream).
• Can distinguish origin responses vs proxy-generated errors and document root cause.

• Communication & Prioritization
• Clear stakeholder comms; triage correctly under load—doesn't treat every noisy issue as P1.

Preferred Qualifications

• Automation: Python/PowerShell/Bash for policy linting, regex tests, API-driven config.
• Identity integration experience with Azure AD (Entra ID), Okta, Ping Identity, and Radiant Logic (directory virtualization/identity brokering).
• Device identity/posture hooks (mTLS/MDM) as they affect SWG policy.

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• Company-subsidized health, dental, and vision insurance
• Flexible PTO
• 401K with employer match
• Paid parental leave after one year of service
• Employee Assistance Program

Ad Hoc LLC is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, national origin, ancestry, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, religion, age, pregnancy, disability, work-related injury, covered veteran status, political ideology, marital status, or any other factor that the law protects from employment discrimination.

In support of various state and city equal pay transparency laws, Ad Hoc job descriptions feature the starting range we reasonably expect to pay to candidates who would join our team with little to no need for training on the responsibilities we've outlined above. Actual compensation is influenced by a wide range of factors including but not limited to skill set, level of experience, and responsibility. The range of starting pay for this role is $153,000-187,000. Our recruiters will be happy to answer any questions you may have, and we look forward to learning more about your salary requirements.

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