IT Engineer II, Network Security

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Clearwater Paper Corporation

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1001 - 5000 employees

Founded 2008

🤝 B2B

B2B

Clearwater Paper Corporation is a premier independent supplier and manufacturer of paperboard packaging products serving North American converters. The company produces high-quality, sustainable paperboard used in consumer goods and foodservice packaging, sources fiber from responsibly managed forests, and provides packaging solutions alongside corporate investor and sustainability reporting. Headquartered in Spokane, Washington, Clearwater Paper focuses on B2B relationships with converters and brand owners.

📋 Description

• The Network Security Engineer is a hands-on L2 infrastructure and security role that operates between day-to-day network operations and deeper L3 engineering • Responsible for reliable execution, operational support, controlled changes, troubleshooting, and security administration across enterprise and site networks • Helps maintain network stability, security posture, and service continuity across firewalls, switching, routing, remote access, wireless, and connected security platforms while escalating complex design and architecture matters appropriately • Owns L2 execution for standard incidents, service requests, recurring maintenance, and approved changes • Monitor and support firewalls, switches, routers, VPN connectivity, NAC-related components, wireless infrastructure, and core network security services • Work assigned incidents, alarms, and service requests within defined SLAs and operating procedures • Restore service for common failures involving routing, switching, access policies, interfaces, tunnels, wireless connectivity, and device health • Perform log review and basic event correlation across network and security tools to support incident triage and operational visibility • Implement standard and pre-approved changes for firewall rules, NAT objects, security zones, switch ports, VLAN updates, ACLs, routing changes, VPN updates, and device hardening activities • Validate change scope, prerequisites, rollback steps, and post-change testing before and after implementation • Support high availability, resiliency, and uptime objectives across enterprise and site network environments • Administer day-to-day security configurations in line with approved standards and policy • Review and remediate basic control gaps such as stale rules, unused objects, misconfigurations, weak administrative practices, and device hygiene issues • Partner with cybersecurity operations teams on investigations, containment support, and evidence collection involving network-based events • Document findings, impact, suspected cause, and actions taken before escalating to L3 engineers, architects, vendors, or telecom providers • Provide quality handoff material that reduces rework and accelerates root-cause resolution • Maintain accurate device records, diagrams, runbooks, standard operating procedures, and implementation notes • Update configuration standards, support documentation, and knowledge articles based on recurring operational patterns • Recommend operational improvements that reduce outages, improve monitoring, simplify support, and strengthen security posture • Communicate clearly with technical and non-technical stakeholders regarding outages, change windows, risk, and restoration progress

🎯 Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in computer science, Information Technology, Cybersecurity, or a related field preferred • 4-7 years of experience in infrastructure, networking, or network security support and administration • Experience supporting enterprise firewalls, switching, routing, VPNs, wireless, and core security controls in a production environment is required • Experience in a manufacturing, multi-site, or operationally sensitive environment is strongly preferred • Industry certifications such as CCNA, PCNSA, Security+, Network+, Aruba, Fortinet, or equivalent are a plus • Strong operational understanding of TCP/IP, subnetting, VLANs, trunking, STP, EtherChannel, routing fundamentals, DHCP, DNS, and common enterprise LAN/WAN constructs • Able to administer standard firewall policies, address objects, NAT, zones, interfaces, remote access, and site-to-site VPNs under approved standards • Supports enterprise wireless troubleshooting, authentication issues, access policies, and switch port changes for user, server, and site connectivity • Uses monitoring and management tools effectively for health checks, alert review, configuration validation, and ticket evidence gathering • Comfortable with command-line diagnostics, log review, packet-path validation, and basic packet capture interpretation • Understands how network telemetry, firewall logs, and control changes support SOC investigations and incident response workflows • Produces clean incident notes, change records, implementation plans, rollback steps, and as-built updates

🏖️ Benefits

• Benefits, including medical, dental, vision, and more, generally begin after 30 days • Paid time off includes vacation days, personal days, and company holidays