Title: Senior Firewall Engineer
Position Type: Contract
Location: Crownsville, MD, United States
Description:
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-- Position Type: Contract
Location: Crownsville, MD, United States
Description:
Title: Senior Firewall Engineer
Location: Crownsville, MD (Must work onsite from day 1)
Duration: 6 Months
Must be US Citizen or Green Card holder
The Senior Firewall Engineer will be responsible for the planning, engineering, implementation, and support of security solutions for the Security Operations Center (SOC) with a special focus on enterprise firewall services. This role will be responsible for performing the following tasks:
Duties and Responsibilities:
• Architecture, design, and implementation of scalable, redundant, and reliable firewall solutions.
• Security hardening firewall configurations.
• Configuration management and control of architectural/design/functional configuration changes to firewalls.
• Firewall brake-fix troubleshooting, root cause analysis, and support.
• Firewall patch/upgrade monitoring, reviews, maintenance scheduling and deployment.
• Management of firewall operational and security audits logs.
• Definition, development, and configuration of firewall security and operational alerts, dashboards, and reporting.
• Monitoring firewall operational and security alerts and dashboards.
• Defining, implementing, and monitoring process/procedures for maintaining the lifecycle firewall policies and rules.
• Configuration, maintenance, and support of additional firewall services such as URL filtering, Malware Sandboxing Analysis, Threat Intelligence Feeds, Threat Prevention, User ID etc.
• Provide firewall log correlation support for emerging and retroactive security incident investigations.
• Support the integration with other security tools such IDS/IPS, SIEM, NACs, VPN etc.
• Define requirements and develop roles-based Standard Operating Procedure (SOPs) documents.
Qualifications:
Education and Years of Experience:
• At least ten (10) years of experience in a computer related field.
• At least five (5) years of progressive experience in architecture, design, implementation, support of firewall technologies.
• Bachelor's degree from an accredited college or university with a major in Computer Science, Information Systems, Engineering or related scientific or technical discipline.
Required Skills/Certifications:
• Experience with Palo Alto and Juniper SRX firewalls.
• Strong demonstrated experience with network security architecture, design, and implementation best-practices.
• Strong demonstrated experience with firewall architecture, design, and implementation.
• Demonstrated experience with operational and security hardening configuration for firewall solutions.
• Demonstrated experience with configuration management and change control for firewall solutions.
• Customer-oriented with excellent issue follow-through and resolution abilities.
• Outstanding leadership and organizational skills.
• Utilize tools and analytical skills to plan and execute technical changes.
• Excellent written and oral communication, and presentation skills.
• Ability to effectively work both autonomously as well as on a team.
• Outstanding interpersonal skills, strong work ethic, self-motivated and excellent presentation skills.
Desired Skills/Certifications:
• CISSP, Palo Alto PCNSE, and Juniper JNCIP-SEC certifications
• Experience in project task technical analysis, planning, and estimation
• Experience with technology capabilities market research, technical analysis/review, and recommendation.
Location: Crownsville, MD (Must work onsite from day 1)
Duration: 6 Months
Must be US Citizen or Green Card holder
The Senior Firewall Engineer will be responsible for the planning, engineering, implementation, and support of security solutions for the Security Operations Center (SOC) with a special focus on enterprise firewall services. This role will be responsible for performing the following tasks:
Duties and Responsibilities:
• Architecture, design, and implementation of scalable, redundant, and reliable firewall solutions.
• Security hardening firewall configurations.
• Configuration management and control of architectural/design/functional configuration changes to firewalls.
• Firewall brake-fix troubleshooting, root cause analysis, and support.
• Firewall patch/upgrade monitoring, reviews, maintenance scheduling and deployment.
• Management of firewall operational and security audits logs.
• Definition, development, and configuration of firewall security and operational alerts, dashboards, and reporting.
• Monitoring firewall operational and security alerts and dashboards.
• Defining, implementing, and monitoring process/procedures for maintaining the lifecycle firewall policies and rules.
• Configuration, maintenance, and support of additional firewall services such as URL filtering, Malware Sandboxing Analysis, Threat Intelligence Feeds, Threat Prevention, User ID etc.
• Provide firewall log correlation support for emerging and retroactive security incident investigations.
• Support the integration with other security tools such IDS/IPS, SIEM, NACs, VPN etc.
• Define requirements and develop roles-based Standard Operating Procedure (SOPs) documents.
Qualifications:
Education and Years of Experience:
• At least ten (10) years of experience in a computer related field.
• At least five (5) years of progressive experience in architecture, design, implementation, support of firewall technologies.
• Bachelor's degree from an accredited college or university with a major in Computer Science, Information Systems, Engineering or related scientific or technical discipline.
Required Skills/Certifications:
• Experience with Palo Alto and Juniper SRX firewalls.
• Strong demonstrated experience with network security architecture, design, and implementation best-practices.
• Strong demonstrated experience with firewall architecture, design, and implementation.
• Demonstrated experience with operational and security hardening configuration for firewall solutions.
• Demonstrated experience with configuration management and change control for firewall solutions.
• Customer-oriented with excellent issue follow-through and resolution abilities.
• Outstanding leadership and organizational skills.
• Utilize tools and analytical skills to plan and execute technical changes.
• Excellent written and oral communication, and presentation skills.
• Ability to effectively work both autonomously as well as on a team.
• Outstanding interpersonal skills, strong work ethic, self-motivated and excellent presentation skills.
Desired Skills/Certifications:
• CISSP, Palo Alto PCNSE, and Juniper JNCIP-SEC certifications
• Experience in project task technical analysis, planning, and estimation
• Experience with technology capabilities market research, technical analysis/review, and recommendation.
Thanks & Regards
Shailbi Shukla
Recruitment & IT Solutions Inc.
Email To: shailbishukla@gmail.com
Fax :(703) 852 – 7939
8230 Boone Blvd, Suite 403, Vienna, VA 22182
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