Firewall Architect

Firewall Architect at MANTECH

MANTECH is seeking a motivated, career and customer-oriented Firewall Subject Matter Expert (SME) / Architect to support its critical operations. This position offers a fully remote work arrangement, allowing you to contribute from South Burlington, VT, Camp Springs, MD, or other locations.

Responsibilities Include, But Are Not Limited To

• Perform as a Level 4 firewall and network engineering escalation point for network security, effectively supporting security processes and procedures.
• Continually improve network stability, working with the performance team to establish network performance metrics for alerting and remediation automations.
• Collaborate with other firewall and network engineer colleagues to configure and implement Next Generation Firewall and Intrusion Protection Systems.
• Review existing configuration settings to identify potential security vulnerabilities and propose/implement setting or architectural changes to address these vulnerabilities.
• Perform securing, hardening, and rule creation for new firewalls, switches, routers, and other network equipment. This includes reviewing and re-evaluating existing configuration settings and rules to verify USCIS’ security posture and eliminate unnecessary risk.

Minimum Qualifications

• A minimum of ten (10) years of experience as an enterprise firewall engineer across large and complex network and Microsoft AD environments.
• Certifications: PCNSE.
• Extensive security background with Palo Alto firewall systems.
• A minimum of four (4) years of experience in cloud technologies such as, but not limited to, Azure and AWS.
• Experience designing and implementing enterprise solutions that increase the availability and security of the enterprise.
• Experience with on-premise physical infrastructure and virtualization technologies including Hyper-V, VMWare, SAN, NFS, SMB3, etc.
• Deep experience with networking and security methods and tools.

Preferred Qualifications

• Familiarity with tools including: ServiceNow, GitHub, Jira, Confluence.
• Experience with ITIL, DevSecOps, and Agile concepts.
• Experience supporting Government contracts.

Clearance Requirements

• Must be a U.S. Citizen with the ability to obtain and maintain a Public Trust clearance prior to starting this position.
• Ability to obtain DHS EOD suitability prior to starting this position.
• Current DHS EOD highly preferred.

Physical Requirements

• Must be able to remain in a stationary position 50% of the time.
• Constantly operates a computer and other office productivity machinery, such as a calculator, copy machine, and computer printer.

Key skills/competency

• Palo Alto Firewalls
• Network Security
• Cloud Technologies (Azure, AWS)
• Intrusion Protection Systems
• Firewall Engineering
• Security Vulnerability Management
• Virtualization (Hyper-V, VMware)
• DevSecOps
• ITIL
• Government Contracts