Location: Warren NJ Can be 100% Must be Local in TriState Area. Open to coming onsite for Emergencies or important meetings.
Hours: 40 per week. 9:00AM 5:00PM. Monday Friday only.
Key Responsibilities:
Apply a comprehensive understanding of firewall technologies and concepts with a focus on Checkpoint and Palo Alto. This includes a basic understanding of routing switching firewalls and network monitoring and management. Experience with upgrading patching and maintaining Palo Alto and Checkpoint network infrastructure. Also requires a basic understanding of Cloud based firewall technologies. Also a basic to intermediate handson work with Microsoft Azure networking and security.
Responsibilities:
Upgrading patching and maintaining global production firewalls from Check Point R81 (Maestro) and Palo Alto (v9.1.3)
Rapid response to active threats being reported including IP blocking and IPS maintenance
Supporting larger firewall projects
Detect and remediate vulnerabilities within the firewall infrastructure
Perform special projects and additional duties and responsibilities as required
Take over daily maintenance activities related to the global firewall infrastructure including:
Log maintenance
Reporting
Auditing
Create/modify firewall rules based on user requirements
Manage daytoday calls and tickets for various engineering and troubleshooting tasks
Microsoft Azure Basic to Intermediate understanding of Azure networking VNETs Network Service Groups Load balancing and Route servers
Qualifications:
4 years of experience working with Palo Alto firewalls
1 to 2 years or more of experience with cloudbased firewalls preferably Zscaler
1 to 2 years or more of experience with the MS Azure cloud
1 to 2 years of experience working with Checkpoint
Optional:
Cisco ISE experience
Palo Alto Panorama experience
Cisco IOS routing switching (basic)
Comprehensive knowledge of Check Point and Palo Alto technologies and protocols including Sitetosite VPN IPS Content/URL filtering and Application Control
Experience upgrading patching and maintaining Check Point and Palo Alto firewalls
Experience working with the following network management platforms: SolarWinds Orion NCM NPM and IPAM