Senior Firewall EngineerSME Team Lead

• Lead a team of firewall engineers and administrators: assign and prioritize daily work review peer configurations before implementation and mentor junior staff on design patterns and troubleshooting methodology.
• Serve as the technical authority for enterprise firewall architecture including boundary design security zone segmentation high-availability pairs and integration with routing IDS/IPS proxy and remote-access infrastructure.
• Own the firewall change-management process end to end including validating rule requests assessing risk and least-privilege impact coordinating required Government and Risk Management approvals and overseeing implementation and post-change verification.
• Maintain rule base hygiene through recurring assessments by identifying and remediating shadowed expired duplicate conflicting and overly permissive rules.
• Act as the final escalation point for complex connectivity and performance issues using packet captures session and traffic-flow analysis and log correlation to isolate faults across the network path.
• Manage firewall platform lifecycle activities including upgrades patching failover testing performance monitoring and planning and executing end-of-life hardware migrations.
• Ensure firewall configurations meet applicable STIG NIST PPSM DISA NSA and organizational security requirements and produce supporting artifacts for assessments and accreditation activities.
• Lead the configuration migration integration and monitoring of Cisco ASA and Firepower platforms and associated FireMon Stealthwatch and enterprise SIEM capabilities.
• Author and maintain SOPs assessment reports After Action Reports change records logical configuration diagrams and other technical documentation required to support secure and consistent operations.
• Interface directly with the Government customer and stakeholder teams on requirements status reporting metrics outage communications and long-range technical roadmap input.

• Active DoD TS/SCI clearance
• DoD 8140 IAT II certification (i.e. Security CCNA-Security CySA CND GICSP GSEC SSCP)
• Industry Firewall Certification (CCNP Palo Alto Juniper etc.)
• BA/BS degree or equivalent experience
• Minimum 7 years experience engineering administering and troubleshooting enterprise firewall environments with at least 3 years in DoD enterprise environments
• Experience leading firewall engineers network security personnel or a comparable technical team.
• Advanced knowledge of firewall architecture security zones DMZs access-control policies routing NAT high availability traffic inspection logging and packet analysis.
• Experience evaluating and optimizing complex firewall rulesets.
• Experience leading major firewall changes platform migrations security assessments and complex incident resolution.
• Hands-on experience with Cisco ASA and Cisco Firepower technologies.
• Familiarity with FireMon Stealthwatch enterprise SIEM capabilities and load balancer technologies.
• Working knowledge of DoD STIGs NIST guidance PPSM requirements and formal Government change-management processes.
• Experience supporting classified networks and mission-critical operational environments.
• Strong leadership technical writing documentation and customer communication skills.
• Ability to provide after-hours emergency support when required.

• Experience supporting the Pentagon DISA or another large DoD enterprise environment.
• Experience with Juniper NetScreen and Cisco PIX configuration cleanup and migration.
• Relevant firewall networking or cybersecurity certifications.

Our Benefits

GCyber is committed to the well-being and development of every employee. Our benefits are designed to support your personal and professional goals from health and wellness programs to retirement savings and career development opportunities. Highlights include:

• 26 Days of Paid Leave Annual PTO Increase
• An extra day of paid leave for every year of employment with GCyber
• Paid Parental Leave
• Additional Leave Allowances for Military Duty Jury Duty and Bereavement Leave
• 401(k) Matching
• 100% Company-funded Disability Insurance
• 90% Company-Funded Health Dental and Vision Insurance with contributions to insurance benefits for spouses children and family members
• Training and Professional Development Plans
• Commuter Benefits Plan
• Parking and Transportation Allowance

Equal Opportunity Employer

GCyber is an Equal Opportunity Employer. This means you dont have to worry about whether your application process will be fair. We consider all applicants without regard to race color religion age ancestry ethnicity gender gender identity gender expression sexual orientation veteran status or disability.

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