IT Engineer II, Network Security

Clearwater Paper Corporation

Network Security Engineer responsible for operational support and security administration in a remote role. Maintain network stability and security posture for Clearwater Paper products and services.

Posted 6/3/2026full-timeRemote • Idaho, South Carolina, Washington • 🇺🇸 United StatesMid-LevelSeniorWebsite

Tech Stack

Tools & technologies

Cyber SecurityDNSFirewallsSwitchingTCP/IP

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact

The position is responsible for reliable execution, operational support, controlled changes, troubleshooting, and security administration across enterprise and site networks.
Maintain network stability, security posture, and service continuity across firewalls, switching, routing, remote access, wireless, and connected security platforms.
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.
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.
Administer day-to-day security configurations in line with approved standards and policy.
Support management of perimeter controls, remote access, segmentation controls, and secure connectivity patterns.
Document findings, impact, suspected cause, and actions taken before escalating to L3 engineers, architects, vendors, or telecom providers.

Requirements

What you’ll need

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.

Benefits

Comp & perks

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

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Hard Skills & Tools

network securityfirewallsswitchingroutingVPNwireless infrastructureNACTCP/IPsubnettingVLANs

Soft Skills

troubleshootingoperational supportdocumentationincident responsecommunication

Certifications

CCNAPCNSASecurity+Network+ArubaFortinet