Firewall Engineer / Network Engineer

Responsibilities:

Client is looking for a Firewall Engineer with project lead experience and hands-on engineering experience. The Firewall Engineer will be responsible for the engineering, implementation, and support of security solutions for the State of Maryland DoIT Security Operations Center (SOC) with a special focus on enterprise firewall systems. This role will be responsible for performing the following tasks:

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 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 hands-on experience in Network Engineering/Architecture.
At least five (5) years of Team & Technical Lead experience on system management /deployment projects.
At least five (5) years of progressive hands-on 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