Remote work used to be a thing of the future. However, with social, economic, and cultural events taking place across the country, it has now evolved into something that both job searchers AND companies are benefiting from. Remote work is multifaceted and can come in handy in a variety of situations. So, to help your small business take advantage of all of remote work's benefits, here is a short guide on how to hire remote workers. 

How to Hire Remote Workers

Remote work is now a viable option for both job seekers and employers. Hiring the right remote worker depends on your goals, budget, and team. Start your search with free job boards, paid job boards, referrals, social media, and networking events. Get the best remote workers with a combination of communication, tech, and troubleshooting evaluations.

No matter how happy we are with our jobs, there are days when we feel overwhelmed and want to call out of work. No, don't feel guilty. It's expected because we're humans, and we can't control the uncertainties of life. But the problem lies in how to call out of work without seeming uncommitted to work, especially if you seldom get work-free days.&nbsp;

How to Call Out of Work

Don't feel bad about needing a day off, read this blog post for tips on how to call out of work without raising suspicions. Learn when it's valid, how to communicate with your boss, and how to avoid getting fired. Make sure to follow company policies and be in sync with activities while away.

Experience with PCI and PCI DSS compliance activities leading sessions with internal compliance teams ensuring zero deviations and vulnerabilities.. Prioritize and manage execution of day-to-day operational network security changes to firewall, IDS/IPS, ACLs and other network security device configurations. Cisco datacenter switches, ASR routers, multicast routing, access points (AP), ISE/NAC. Proxy/IDS experience/port security/VPN, DNS, DHCP, IPAM. Licenses/certifications required: CCNA, CISSP, CISM, CCSP

Network Security Manager

Diverse network experience with leveraging on-prem, virtualization, and cloud Amazon Web Services (AWS) to support business and information technology needs. Proven results necessary to be successful in a rapidly changing technology while delivering cost-effective, creative, scalable, resilient, and secure network technology solutions.

* 5+ years management experience with proven success building and managing a network engineer team delivering world-class compliant solutions
* Ability to handle multiple tasks in a fast-paced environment, and prioritize highly varied work to maintain required productivity levels
* Maintain, establish, and present performance and capacity metrics in association to the availability, performance of the environments and workload of the team
* Ownership of the network security product change lifecycle from definition through development, delivery, and results assessment
* Drive the efficient and effective delivery of our committed strategic plans with high availability, zero trust network access and edge authentication
* Experience with PCI and PCI DSS compliance activities leading sessions with internal compliance teams ensuring zero deviations and vulnerabilities.
* Maintain, deploy, upgrade, and troubleshoot network security infrastructure solutions including firewalls, load balancers, client VPN, wireless, IP and access layer controls
* Lead extensive troubleshooting effort including switch, router, and firewall analysis
* Collaborate with Security, Infrastructure, Compliance and Operations teams to develop consistent technical solutions, implementation activities and support processes
* Participate in the design, lifecycle management, and total cost of ownership of network security appliances, applications, and services
* Work closely with Compliance team to review vulnerability assessments and penetration testing
* Prioritize and manage execution of day-to-day operational network security changes to firewall, IDS/IPS, ACLs and other network security device configurations
* Participate in definition of network security strategies and policies
* Develop and refine network baseline security standards and management procedures
* Creation and maintenance of network security diagrams
* Best practice network security methodology
* Business Continuity and Capacity Management
* Communicating and collaboration to executive management and across support teams
* Working knowledge in a mature ITSM environment
* Support the incident and problem responses with network security solutions
* Self-motivated with a hardworking and proactive approach
* Assist with on-call support as needed

Technical Skills:

* Cisco datacenter switches, ASR routers, multicast routing, access points (AP), ISE/NAC
* F5 Big-IP GTM, load balancing
* SD-WAN/SDN, WAN optimization
* Next Gen Firewalls and Zero Trust Network Access (ZTNA)/Network Access Control (NAC)
* Proxy/IDS experience/port security/VPN, DNS, DHCP, IPAM

Technology Stack:

* Forcepoint, PulseSecure, Firemon, PaloAlto Panaroma, Netskope
* Viptela SD-WAN
* F5
* Cisco ISE/NAC

Education:

* Bachelor's Degree in technology Focused Field
* Licenses/certifications required: CCNA, CISSP, CISM, CCSP