Firewall Engineer

Top 5 skills needed (from the Manager):

• 5+ years of firewall experience
• 2+ years of Cisco switch experience
• VPN, IPSec, PKI knowledge
• Cisco Firepower firewall (preferred skill)

Role: Firewall Engineer
End Customer: Dept. of State
Duration of the Contract: 1+ year
Location: 5 days On-Site in Sterling, VA
Project year/option:

Interview Process: 2 video interviews

Functional Duties:
The Sr. Firewall Engineer should be able to:
" Design and implement firewall solutions for our network infrastructure
" Document firewall infrastructure and support playbooks
" Maintain and optimize firewall components

Daily Responsibilities:
" Experience building and deploying Cisco firepower next gen firewall from the ground up
" Ability to build high availability set up on firewalls
" Ability to support multiple tenant separation using Next Gen firewalls
" Experience configuring advanced firewall feature sets (e.g., application security, Data Loss Prevention (DLP))
" Experience building complex firewall rule sets
" Conduct firewall environment analysis and resolve inefficiencies on the network.
" Perform day to day firewall maintenance which includes configuring, installing, and troubleshooting.
" Monitor network and firewall performance and troubleshoot problems and outages.
" Schedule and perform upgrades to firewalls