Secret Cleared | Lead Palo Alto Firewall Engineer | MIDs (1100pm-730am)
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Job Location:
Beltsville, MD - USA
Monthly Salary:
Not Disclosed
Posted on:
5 days ago
Vacancies:
1 Vacancy
Job Summary
PALO ALTO FIREWALL ENGINEER
Position Description
Description
This is an opening for a Firewall Engineer/Team Lead to support a Department of State (DoS) Bureau of Diplomatic Technology (DT) program. This program provides transparent interconnected systems and security supporting the DoS in successfully carrying out its U.S. foreign policy mission. DT provides enterprise architecture design engineering operations and maintenance support services for servers networks firewalls and enterprise applications across the Department. Program is named Vanguard and is an IT consolidation consisting of the Departments servers mainframes network devices network perimeter anti-virus engineering public key infrastructure (PKI)/biometrics/encryption monitoring tools telephony mobile computing platform virtual environment and enclave design/security engineering.
This is a firewall engineer position within the Vanguard 2025 program providing general Tier II monitoring configuration and support to multiple firewalls and perimeter security systems. The position directly supports DoS on-site to provide perimeter security protection to over 80000 customers globally.
This is a hybrid position based out of Beltsville MD with 3 days on-site. Shift is MIDs (11:00pm-7:30am) Sun-Thurs after training. During the 6-8 week training period it will be 5 days on-site Mon-Fri (7:00am-3:30pm).
Your responsibilities will include:
Provides Tier 2 support in the monitoring management and troubleshooting of perimeter devices to include firewalls proxies and mail transport agents. Along with being a Team Lead for the MID shift. As the Lead you will be expectant to give a turnover of events for the past shift create weekly Quad Chart and be able to direct work to other firewall operations staff. Must be able to guide other staff on tasks assigned to the team. Review request for time off and stay in touch with the manager on all events happening on the shift.
Required Education & Experience
Position Description
Description
This is an opening for a Firewall Engineer/Team Lead to support a Department of State (DoS) Bureau of Diplomatic Technology (DT) program. This program provides transparent interconnected systems and security supporting the DoS in successfully carrying out its U.S. foreign policy mission. DT provides enterprise architecture design engineering operations and maintenance support services for servers networks firewalls and enterprise applications across the Department. Program is named Vanguard and is an IT consolidation consisting of the Departments servers mainframes network devices network perimeter anti-virus engineering public key infrastructure (PKI)/biometrics/encryption monitoring tools telephony mobile computing platform virtual environment and enclave design/security engineering.
This is a firewall engineer position within the Vanguard 2025 program providing general Tier II monitoring configuration and support to multiple firewalls and perimeter security systems. The position directly supports DoS on-site to provide perimeter security protection to over 80000 customers globally.
This is a hybrid position based out of Beltsville MD with 3 days on-site. Shift is MIDs (11:00pm-7:30am) Sun-Thurs after training. During the 6-8 week training period it will be 5 days on-site Mon-Fri (7:00am-3:30pm).
Your responsibilities will include:
Provides Tier 2 support in the monitoring management and troubleshooting of perimeter devices to include firewalls proxies and mail transport agents. Along with being a Team Lead for the MID shift. As the Lead you will be expectant to give a turnover of events for the past shift create weekly Quad Chart and be able to direct work to other firewall operations staff. Must be able to guide other staff on tasks assigned to the team. Review request for time off and stay in touch with the manager on all events happening on the shift.
- Monitor Service Now application for Firewall Operations incident and service requests.
- Implements firewall rules and policies perform troubleshoots of firewall email and Proxy platforms for performance issues. Analyzes network traffic captures.
- Escalates issues as required to Tier 3 staff and monitors issues throughout a problems life cycle.
- Performs recurring maintenance activities such as device reboots and software upgrades on perimeter devices.
- Records and reports on firewall operations utilization and maintenance.
- Collaborate across Bureaus and Agencies to implement and repair network changes as they relate to perimeter security devices.
- Support Diplomatic Security Computer Incident Response Team (CIRT) by implementing block requests for IPs Websites and Email addresses.
- Update architecture diagrams using Visio.
- Monitor and perform health checks on multiple perimeter security devices.
- Draft coordinate and publish outage notifications as required.
- Update shift logs and provide reports to leadership daily.
- Maintain standard operating procedures (SOP) work instructions and other working documents.
- Attend weekly teleconferences onsite meetings and participate in working groups as required.
Required Education & Experience
- BA degree and 6 years of experience; may accept additional experience in lieu of degree.
- In Depth experience using Palo Alto Firewalls and Panorama monitoring tools to troubleshoot and configure a Firewall infrastructure. Strong understanding of networking proxy and packet filtering technologies.
- Minimum 5 years IT Customer Support experience (Tier I and/or Tier II).
- First-hand experience with supporting the monitoring and configuration of Firewall/DMZ infrastructure including Network and Application Firewall Packet Filtering technologies (StoneGate Palo Alto FortiGate Azure Firewall Cloudflare Cisco Email Security Appliances (ESA) A10 proxy devices).
- CLI experience preferred.
- Experienced in utilizing network monitoring tools such as Nagios and NeuralStar.
- Basic Microsoft Windows Server 2016 implementation and troubleshooting from a security/firewall perspective.
- Experienced with TCP/IP network implementation and troubleshooting.
- US Citizenship.
- An Interim Secret clearance is required to start work and requires eligibility to obtain a Top Secret clearance.
Required Experience:
Senior IC
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