Checkpoint Engineer

*Description:*

*The senior firewall Engineer is responsible for the implementation, maintenance, and troubleshooting support of the Checkpoint firewalls.
*Utilizing their extensive knowledge of LAN/WAN systems, the individual in this position will take on responsibilities in areas of administration, engineering, architecture, monitoring, and troubleshooting of firewalls, security policy, NAT (SNAT/DNAT, etc), rulesets, VPN, DNS and DHCP, and work collaboratively with IT team members on technology project implementations.
*Hands on experience with Checkpoint firewalls and Maestro Orchestrator is mandatory.
*The individual will develop and maintain documentation, configuration change plans, network topology diagrams, rack elevation, data flows, and variables.
*The successful candidate will be responsible for providing support, consisting of technical and problem resolution support, along with maintenance of the Checkpoint firewalls.

*Skills:*

Checkpoint, quantum maesto orchestrator, checkpoint certified, checkpoint management, smart console

*Top Skills Details:*

Checkpoint,quantum maesto orchestrator,checkpoint certified,checkpoint management,smart console

*Additional Skills & Qualifications:*

*1. Designs, deploys, maintains, optimizes, and troubleshoots enterprise-class Checkpoint firewalls
*2. Plans and executes Checkpoint firewall configuration changes; must have significant hands-on experience with the Checkpoint firewall command line, Smart console and Maestro Orchestrator.
*3. Provides technical and problem-resolution support related to hardware and software
*4. Supports the existing infrastructure and assists in designing and deploying firewall configuration optimization supporting business and technical initiatives.
*5. Utilizes Checkpoint firewall monitoring and management tools to evaluate the status of the environment daily, performs capacity planning, network analysis, and optimization
*6. Develop and maintain comprehensive and timely documentation, including addressing plans, network topology diagrams, rack elevations, data flows, and other technical documentation.
*7. Experience with BGP routing is a plus.

*Experience Level:*

Expert Level

About TEKsystems:

We're partners in transformation. We help clients activate ideas and solutions to take advantage of a new world of opportunity. We are a team of 80,000 strong, working with over 6,000 clients, including 80% of the Fortune 500, across North America, Europe and Asia. As an industry leader in Full-Stack Technology Services, Talent Services, and real-world application, we work with progressive leaders to drive change. That's the power of true partnership. TEKsystems is an Allegis Group company.

The company is an equal opportunity employer and will consider all applications without regards to race, sex, age, color, religion, national origin, veteran status, disability, sexual orientation, gender identity, genetic information or any characteristic protected by law.