Juniper Firewall Engineer
Company | Peraton |
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Location | Woodlawn, MD, USA |
Salary | $86000 – $138000 |
Type | Full-Time |
Degrees | Bachelor’s, Master’s, PhD |
Experience Level | Senior |
Requirements
- Bachelor’s Degree and 5 years of relevant cyber security experience, or Master’s Degree and 3 years of relevant cyber security experience, or PhD with 2 years of relevant cyber security experience.
- Possess an active (expert-level) firewall certification: Juniper (JNCIE-SEC or JNCDS-SEC), Palo Alto (PCNSE), or Checkpoint (CCSE).
- Experience performing security functions on network devices, appliances, and security tools.
- Experience in demonstrates the skill and ability to translate security mandates and guidelines such as NIST 800-series into operational functions.
- Experience with whitelisting and blacklisting using network security tools and devices.
- Ability to obtain and maintain a US Public Trust clearance.
- U.S. citizenship is required.
Responsibilities
- Provide technical analysis in network security planning, engineering, and design.
- Service as the enterprise expert in cross-functional discipline of enterprise network and cyber security infrastructure.
- Provide analysis for implementation techniques and tools for the most efficient solution to network security problems.
- Maintain technical expertise in all areas of network and cyber security hardware and software interconnection and interfacing, such as routers, firewalls, and Intrusion Detection/Intrusion Prevention devices.
- Coordinate third-party maintenance for network and cyber security equipment. Troubleshoot problems with department users and department network administrators.
- Validate enterprise-level network security design, newly released equipment software and operating system for vulnerabilities and deficiencies.
- Provide specifications and detail schematics for unified network architecture of the enterprise.
- Provide daily monitoring/detection of potential performance/throughput issue and develop risk mitigation solutions.
- Provide guidance to team members and provide status metrics to Government customer and Peraton management.
- Provide third-level support and troubleshooting of network problems. Periodically provide after-hours and weekend support.
- Design, test, and implement state-of-the-art secure operating systems, networks, and database products, including design of high-level dashboards, using data feeds from different network tools.
Preferred Qualifications
- 3 years of experience with scalable firewall platform with either Checkpoint or Palo Alto products.
- 2 years of experience with virtual firewalls.
- 2 years of experience with Skybox tool.
- Preferred candidate to reside close to Woodlawn, MD.