Position: Cyber Security Specialist | Location: Akron, OH (3057) | Duration: 1 year | Position Details: Work with the IT Technical Security Operations team to assess and improve the security posture for FirstEnergy IT Systems; ensure the protection of confidential data and systems; and provide technical engineering services for the support of integrated security systems and solutions. -Manage security products currently in use at FirstEnergy -Analyze client requests for security system modifications to ensure their compliance with security policy and identify any potential threat to security of the FE data network.  Design and implement appropriate changes to IT security products to accommodate those client requests - Design, implement, and continually update the latest configurations for the wide array of IT security products used in the FE Data Network.   Examples are:  Check Point Firewalls, Cisco Firewalls, VPN systems - Work with Cyber Security team to implement and enforce security policies Requirements: - Advance knowledge of security concepts and demonstrated knowledge of Security Management practices, security architecture, security operations, and security modeling. -Knowledge of telecommunications, network and Internet security access control systems and methodology. -Experience in all or some of the following: Check Point firewalls, Cisco ASA firewall and VPN systems, Cisco CSM  and ACS systems, network protocols (TCP/IP, MPLS), network Routing (EIGRP, OSPF, BGP), and testing security products and systems.