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FIREWALL ADMINISTRATOR

09-28-2012

FIREWALL ADMINISTRATOR

Title: FIREWALL ADMINISTRATOR

Location: US-CA-Palo Alto

Travel: Frequent travel to site in Riverdale, MD.

Targeted Start: 10/15/2012

Travel Required: none

 

Overview:

 

Entry-level firewall administrator needed to assist in day-to-day operational security duties in a firewall group handling Cisco, Juniper, and Palo Alto Network firewalls.

Contract Length: 3-6 Months

T&E Provided: No

Responsibilities:

 

- Coordination with various IT operations teams.

- Perform Cisco security upgrades (including testing and roll-out).

- Respond and analyze security incidents and events.

- Build, monitor, and troubleshoot Cisco and Juniper IPSEC VPN tunnels.

- Monitor, maintain, and implement security policies on firewalls.

 

Qualifications:

 

- Experience working with Cisco networking and security solutions, usually gained over 1-2 years (including routers, switches, and firewalls).

- Familiarity with Juniper and other firewall platforms preferred.

- Experience using common networking tools to aid in troubleshooting, including nmap, wireshark, tcpdump, Solarwinds, and others.

- Basic understanding of proxy and URL filtering services for end users (Websense preferred).

- Basic understanding of anti-virus and client disk encryption technologies.

- Basic understanding of IDS/IPS and SIEM operation.

- Expertise in common networking concepts and protocols including, but not limited to:

- TCP/UDP ports and protocols.

- The OSI model.

- Layer 2 switching concepts (spanning tree, VLAN trunking, etc.).

- Layer 3 routing concepts (routing protocols, route summarization, redistribution, etc.).

- Experience with common network tools (e.g. tcpdump, Wireshark).

- Extremely process and detail oriented.

- Strong written and verbal communication skills.

 

Qualifications:

 

- Cisco or Juniper Security certifications (CCSP, etc.) greatly preferred .

- General security certifications (CISSP et al) preferred .

- General professional network certifications (CCNP, JNCIS, et al) preferred.