Firewall Engineer

Responsibilities include, but are not limited to:

• Managing Palo Alto firewalls , AWS administration, AlgoSec and Cisco StealthWatch, network security, and overall enterprise network infrastructure support.
• Provide inventory reports detailing license management for current products.
• Proactively address issues, incidents, outages, and security considerations ensuring the stability of network capabilities and provide technical support with existing capabilities and expanded automation.
• Work as escalation point to provide resolutions for network and firewall related issues and work with the Critical Incident Response Team (CIRT) when a firewall / network team presence is requested.
• Work within a standard change management process to implement firewall / system changes.
• Use Agile tools such as JIRA, Confluence and MS Teams to provide transparency and allow information to be visible in real time and to create a unified backlog ensuring visibility into all areas of work and identifying inter-dependencies between teams.
• Review, update and collaborate with other EIS contract teams and the federal customer to produce network documentation and system detailed designs utilizing applications like Visio.
• Review/approve firewall change requests.
• Perform documentation and timely closure of tickets that have been escalated to the firewall team.
• Occasionally after-action reports (AARs), incident analysis reports (IARs), or knowledge base (KB) documents will need to be created.

Basic Qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, or related field preferred. 5-10 years of enterprise firewall administrative experience.
• Ability and desire to work in an enterprise level, collaborative environment.
• Possess superior technical aptitude and effective written and verbal communications skills.
• Strong troubleshooting and analytical skills required.
• Must have strong critical thinking, complex problem solving, appropriate judgment, and decision-making skills.
• Experience with major cloud providers (AWS preferred).

Required Administrative Familiarity:

• Palo Alto Firewalls (Must have)
• Panorama (Must have)
• AlgoSec (Preferred)

Familiarity use of system(s) preferred:

• Splunk
• Service Now
• AppInternals
• Stealthwatch
• Infoblox
• NetCollector
• New Relic
• Solarwinds

Preferred Qualifications:

• PCCET, PCNSA, PCNSE, CCNA, CCNP, or equivalent experience
• Familiar with tools including: ServiceNow, Jira, Confluence, GitHub
• Experience with ITIL, DevSecOps and Agile concepts
• Experience supporting Government contracts

Security Clearance Requirements:

• U.S. Citizen with the ability to obtain Public Trust and complete DHS security clearance

Physical Requirements:

• Office work, typically sedentary with some movement around the office.