Firewall Engineer

Position: Firewall Engineer

Location: 100 Community Pl Crownsville MD 21032 (100% on site) Local or nearby candidates only

Duration: Multi year

Interview mode: In person

Duties and Responsibilities:

• Gap assessment and analysis of security solutions and recommendation of improvement initiatives
• 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 brakefix 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 rolesbased Standard Operating Procedure (SOPs) documents

Minimum Qualifications:

• Six years of handson experience in Network Engineering/Architecture
• Five years of technical experience in architecture design implementation support of firewall technologies
• Current Palo Alto Networks Certified Network Security Engineer (PCNSE) certification or handson experience implementing Palo Alto Advanced/NextGen features to include AppID UserID ContentID URL Filtering Threat Prevention WildFire Virtual Wire Virtual System (VSys) Global Protect NAT Policies Security Profiles Inbound SSL Decryption Outbound SSL Decryption (SSL Forward Proxy) File Blocking and Data Filtering
• Handon experience with Palo Alto Panorama for centralized management of PANOS firewalls
• Selfstarter able to gather requirements plan execute firewall architecting and deployment efforts
• Able to perform gap analysis and initiate and execute architectural improvements
• Experience with network security architecture design and implementation bestpractices i.e. Defenseindepth architecture knowledge of emerging Zero Trust architecture
• Experience with firewall architecture design and implementation
• Experience with operational and security hardening configuration for firewall solutions
• Experience with configuration management and change control for firewall solutions
• Experience with networking and switching protocols and infrastructure services able to troubleshoot and identify DNS DHCP WiFi protocols NTP SNMP routing switching and firewall issues affecting connectivity of applications and services
• Knowledge and understanding of network infrastructure components such as Routers Switches IDS IPS NAC VPN Gateways Wireless APs etc.

Desired Skills/Certifications:

• Handson experience with Juniper firewalls
• CISSP CompTIA Security CCNA/CCNP Security Juniper JNCIPSEC or relevant industry security certifications
• Cisco CCNA or CompTIA Network or relevant networking industry certifications
• Experience in project task technical analysis planning and estimation
• Experience with technology capabilities market research technical analysis/review and recommendation

Educational Requirement: Bachelors Degree from an accredited college or university with a major in Computer Science Information Systems Engineering Business or other related scientific or technical discipline.

Min. Citizenship Status Required: U.S Citizenship