Firewall Administrator, 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.
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.).
- 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 .
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