We are seeking a Network Security Solutions Architect, certified PCNSA for a remote 12 month contract role

** All work must be completed in the United States

**Must be US Citizen or Green Card holder

No 3rd party candidates

Scope of responsibilities:

• Conduct technical analysis and provide expertise in network security planning, engineering, and administration.
• Serve as the expert in enterprise network and cyber security infrastructure, collaborating with cross-functional teams.
• Analyze implementation techniques and tools to identify the most efficient solutions for network security problems.
• Coordinate third-party maintenance for network and cyber security equipment and troubleshoot problems.
• Validate network security design and assess newly released equipment software and operating systems for vulnerabilities.
• Provide specifications and detailed schematics for unified network architecture.
• Monitor and detect potential performance and throughput issues, developing risk mitigation solutions.
• Provide guidance to team members and report status metrics to the Government officials.
• Provide third-level support and troubleshooting for network problems, including after-hours and weekend support.

Requirements:

PCSNA certification

• Hands on experience with one or more of the following Next-Gen firewalls: Barracuda, Juniper, Cisco, Check Point, or Palo Alto.
• Extensive experience implementing and maintaining firewalls and staying updated on any released security vulnerabilities and how they affect the network.
• Extensive experience performing on-going optimization of the network security devices to ensure adequate capacity, availability, and scalability.
• Expertise in modifying firewall rule sets, changing policies, whitelisting, content filtering, and troubleshooting issues by studying network traffic flows, locking down applications, and troubleshooting firewalls, routers, and switches.
• In-depth knowledge of layer 4-7 app aware firewalls.
• Experience establishing and modifying site-to-site VPNs.

If you are interested and available, please forward your resume to lisa.beresford@comcentric.com for immediate consideration.
Lisa Beresford
(303) 476-5927
lisa.beresford@comcentric.com