09 Aug
Palo Alto Network Security Engineer
Maryland, Crownsville , 21032 Crownsville USA

Vacancy expired!

Firewall Engineer

The Role:The Palo Alto Firewall Engineer will join a team in charge of maintaining IT infrastructure systems, keeping them safe from threats and security breaches. You can scan your brain’s inventory to figure out the best configuration of settings and software to design and develop cutting-edge and reliable protective measures to keep secure information safe.

Responsibilities:
  • Provide support with network security products to include intrusion detection and prevention, “Next-Gen” firewalls, content filtering, network access controls, and cloud security solutions.
  • Provide project support and firewall management through the installation and configuration of firewall solutions, patch/upgrade monitoring, break-fix troubleshooting and support, and other maintenance.
  • Analyze requirements to define and implement firewall rules and policies.
  • Configure, maintain, and support additional firewall services such as URL filtering, Malware Sandboxing Analysis, Threat Intelligence Feeds, Threat Prevention, User ID, etc.
  • Provide administration and support of alerts, dashboards, and reporting for firewall solutions.
  • Routinely monitor firewall alerts and dashboards, raising incidents accordingly.
  • Provide administration and support of firewall operational and security audit logs and provide firewall log correlation support for emerging and retroactive security incident investigations.
  • Participate in internal security work prioritization, planning, project meetings, and daily standups.
  • Collaboratively develop role-based Standard Operating Procedure (SOP) documents and help create and scope a project’s level of effort (LOE).
  • Provide support to the SOC team for escalations of technical issues, and various organizational teams for escalations of network security support questions.
  • Participate in on-call rotations.
  • Serve as a leader and a mentor for the firewall engineering team.

Knowledge & Expertise:
  • 8+ years of total technology experience
  • 5+ years of experience in the implementation and support of firewall technologies
  • Palo Alto PCNSE certification required
  • CompTIA Security+ or equivalent DoD 8570.01-M IAT Level II certification desired
  • Juniper JNCIA-SEC certification desired
  • CISSP certification desired
  • Strong, demonstrated experience with Palo Alto and Juniper Firewalls
  • Demonstrated experience with operational and security hardening configuration for firewalls
  • Experience with SIEMs, wireless technologies, hypervisor technologies, IDP/IDS systems, and other firewalls. This includes vendors such as Splunk, Aruba, VMware, Suricata, Cisco, Palo Alto, and Juniper
  • Proven ability to implement secure solutions
  • Strong network and system engineering skills
  • Experience with project task technical analysis, planning, and estimation.
  • Experience with technology capabilities in market research, technical analysis/review, and recommendation.
  • Excellent written, oral communication, and presentation skills
  • B.S. degree from an accredited college or university with a major in Cyber Security. Computer Science, Information Systems, Engineering or related scientific or technical discipline, or equivalent work experience.

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