Senior Firewall Security Engineer

3 weeks ago


Washington, Washington, D.C., United States SAIC Full time

This is a senior-level position for the security engineering team within the Cybersecurity Integrity Center (CIC) office, providing engineering leadership over multiple firewall and security systems and devices.

The well-qualified candidate will possess comprehensive expertise knowledge regarding security devices and be capable of planning and leading the testing, implementation, and maintenance of security technologies and devices.

The position directly supports the Department of State on-site to provide security protection to over 100,000 customers globally.

Responsibilities:

Works directly with the customer to build, design, test, and deploy perimeter security solutions.

Develops and deploys perimeter security solutions utilizing multi-vendor firewalls, email security, IPS/IDS, SSL decryption, DMZs, and virtualization/zones for on-premise and cloud-based services.

Collaborates with technical SMEs on Enterprise-wide solutions, participates in technical working groups, and contributes to technical advisory boards.

Supports the compilation of records and reports concerning perimeter operations and maintenance to analyze the performance of perimeter security systems.

Provides input to the problem management process, including assessing and evaluating software and hardware anomalies.

Supports the root cause analysis efforts to determine problems and develop remediation activities.

Interfaces with vendor support service groups to ensure proper support during outages or periods of degraded system performance.

Qualifications:

Bachelor's degree in a computer science or computer engineering related discipline.

10+ years of IT security/network engineering support experience.

Expert experience in one or more of the following security devices: Palo Alto firewalls, Panorama management console, McAfee/Forcepoint StoneGate firewalls, A10 Encrypted Traffic Inspection/Application Delivery, and Cisco ESA & ASA.

Experience developing and configuring SSL encryption/decryption solutions for traffic inspection.

Experience supporting the configuration and maintenance of Firewall/DMZ infrastructure including Network and Application Firewall Packet Filtering technologies.

Firsthand experience in developing and providing quality assurance review of engineering change orders relating to the replacement or enhancement of perimeter security hardware and software.

Experienced with performing root cause analysis, risk identification, and risk mitigation.

Knowledgeable with configuring Cisco switches.

Strong understanding of routing/switching technologies, IP addressing/subnetting, and network traffic analysis/troubleshooting.

Experience with network monitoring devices such as HP Openview, Nagios, Zenoss, NeuralStar, or other similar monitoring tools.

Clearance:

US Citizenship.

Active Secret clearance with the ability to obtain Top Secret clearance.

Desired Education/Skills:

ITIL Foundation certification.

Certifications: Palo Alto Networks Certified Network Security Engineer (PCNSE), A10 Certification/Accreditation, StoneGate Firewall/VPN Architect Certification, StoneGate Management Client (SMC) Certification, Microsoft Certified Professional (MCP), Network+, Security+, CISSP.

Familiarity with the Department of State environment, Foreign Affairs Handbooks (FAHs), and Foreign Affairs Manuals (FAMs).

Experience with Red Hat Linux/CentOS and Ubuntu including administration scripting is a plus.

Target salary range:

$120,001 - $160,000.



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