Tier III Boundary Protection Engineer
TECHEAD
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Job Description:
Techead has partnered with a well-known client who is globally recognized to help support a long-term contract. We are looking for a skilled Tier 3 boundary protection engineer/Network firewall engineer. If interested in finding out more, please see the below job description for reference.
Job – 20132
Onsite Chantilly, VA
Long term contract
TS SCI CI Poly required
DoD 8570 Information Assurance Technical (IAT) Level 2 active certification required
DESCRIPTION:
Tier III Boundary Protection Engineers to support the customer’s various wide area networks (WANs) and local area networks (LANs). This position will provide boundary protection to an enterprise-level infrastructure across multiple classifications and act as subject matter experts in boundary technologies across multiple vendors.
The job duties of the Tier III Boundary Protection Engineer are as follows:
- Maintain the security and networking of enterprise boundary enclaves and devices.
- Responsible for installing software, applying patches, managing file systems, and monitoring performance of firewall systems.
- Provide support for Palo Alto, Cisco Adaptive Security Appliance (ASA), and Forcepoint firewall equipment and applications.
- Generate, determine impact of, and implement custom proxy policies and/or policy exceptions in response to ongoing technology implementation activities on the program.
- Proxy Subject Matter Expert (SME) for integration of other technologies within the program (function as an SME on ongoing technology projects)
- Support the troubleshooting of web connectivity problems to determine root cause.
- Perform Proxy solution component upgrades, testing and configuration.
- Research and develop evidence collection, protection, and analysis techniques for customer owned and maintained hardware and/or software.
- Provide real-time monitoring and alerting of security incident investigations on perimeter/internal infrastructure.
- Provide day-to-day Operations and Maintenance (O&M) support for all incident management events and outages.
- Collaborate with IT staff on projects and initiatives.
- Provide input for monthly progress and status reporting of Service Level Agreements (SLAs)
- Work with all corresponding technical support teams as required to resolve network traffic concerns.
- Utilize monitoring tools and log collectors to provide in-depth analysis on traffic anomalies and issues.
REQUIREMENTS:
-TS SCI CI Poly
-DoD 8570 Information Assurance Technical (IAT) Level 2 certification
Candidate must have 16 years of experience that can be a combination of work history and education. This equates to a Doctorate and 8 years, master’s and 10 years, bachelor’s and 12 years, associates and 14 years or HS diploma and 16 years.
Additional required qualifications include:
- Candidate must have 7 years of relevant boundary protection experience delivering fault-tolerant data network infrastructure solutions and incident response.
- Must comply with DoD 8570 Information Assurance Technical (IAT) Level 2.
- Experience in configuring and troubleshooting boundary protection technologies such as Palo Alto, Cisco ASA, and Forcepoint appliances.
- Experience with proxy technologies such as Bluecoat proxies or equivalent applications.
- Working knowledge or Routing and Networking fundamentals.
- Working knowledge of boundary protection best practices.
- Understanding of routing, switching, Internet Protocol (IP) subnet, Network Address Translation (NAT) and security technologies.
- Demonstrated ability to engineer and modify rulesets to allow connectivity for new customer requirements.
- Demonstrated ability to read, understand, and develop schematic diagrams, technical manuals, and documentation such that the supported equipment and software can be maintained with minimal training.
- Working knowledge of Service Now or similar IT Service Management (ITSM) products
- Superior verbal and written communication skills.
- Intermediate-level knowledge of MS Office products Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and Visio.
- Work rotating schedules and after-hours on-call support.
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