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Booz Allen Hamilton INC Firewall Engineer, Senior in Colorado Springs, Colorado
Job Number: R0213098
Firewall Engineer, Senior The Opportunity: Are you looking for an opportunity to share your experience in cybersecurity to safeguard our nation and its critical infrastructure assets? As a Firewall Engineer, you'll lead the engineering, maintenance, and operations of security solutions, specifically Palo Alto firewalls, within various enclaves. You'll assess security threats and implement infrastructure controls. You'll work under limited supervision and apply extensive knowledge for a wide range of IA concepts, practices, and procedures to ensure the secure integration and operation of all enclave systems. You'll work independently or lead and direct others and solve cybersecurity interconnected environment problems quickly and completely, develop and implement security solutions in alignment with security strategy, and maintain an awareness of market and technology trends to bring best of breed solutions to the client.
On our team, you'll troubleshoot and analyze complex challenges for customers using your knowledge of Palo Alto firewalls and other security tools such as Splunk, Cribl, Forescout, Trellix, ACAS, Gigamon, Suricata, and FireEye
In this role, you'll directly impact a critical component and organizational mission within the intelligence community. With mentoring, challenging hands-on problem-solving, and opportunities to learn new tools and skills, we focus on growing as a team to make the best solutions for our customers.
Work with us as we secure and strengthen our nation's vital cyber security infrastructure.
Join us. The world can't wait.
You Have:
3+ years of experience with privileged and elevated access deploying, maintaining, administrating, or integrating Firewalls, including Palo Alto
Experiencetroubleshooting applications, hardening using STIGs, and patching and updating Palo Alto or other Firewalls
Experience with the design of cyber systems or solutions
Knowledge of DoD Risk Management Framework and security architecture design and integration
Ability to integrate cybersecurity engineering principles into infrastructure planning, design, and deployment
Ability to provide on-site, full-time support in a client environment
Active TS/SCI clearance; willingness to take a polygraph exam
HS diploma or GED and 7+ years of experience conducting or supporting cyber engineering projects and activities, Associate's degree and 5+ years of experience conducting or supporting cyber engineering projects and activities, or Bachelor's degree and 3+ years of experience conducting or supporting cyber engineering projects and activities
DoD 8570 IAT Level II Certification, including Security+ CE, CCNA-Security, GSEC, SSCP, CySA+, GICSP, or CND Certification
Ability to obtain a DoD 8570 Cybersecurity Service Provider - Infrastructure Support Certification, including CEH, CySA+, GICSP, SSCP, CHFI, CFR, Cloud+, or CND Certification before start date
Nice If You Have:
Experience deploying, maintaining, or integrating using cybersecurity tools, including Gigamon, FireEye, Trellix, Ansible, Encase, Forescout, Suricata, Varonis, or VMWare tools
Experience with Cloud services, including AWS, Azure, or GCP
Experience with Zero-Trust Architecture
Experience with DevSecOps, CI and CD, IaC and CaC, IT Infrastructure Library, and IT Service Management
Experience as a network engineer or Windows or Linux system administrator
Experience with scripting, including Python or Ansible
Experience in a client-facing environment
Possession of excellent verbal and written communication skills, including using presentation expertise to convey complex ideas to clients and internal staff
Possession of excellent problem-solving skills
Palo Alto Network Security Generalist, Palo Alto Next-Generation Firewall Engineer, Palo Alto Certified Network Security Administrator (PCNSA), Palo Alto Certified Network Sec rity Engineer (PCNSE), or Palo Alto Certified Software Firewall Engineer (PCSFE) certification
Clearance: Applicants selected will be subject to a security investigation and may need to meet eligibility requirements for access to classified information;