Title: Firewall Specialist SP3
Location: Brooklyn, NY
Duration: 1 year

Job Description:

Resource will be required to assist with the design and deployment of firewall security solutions deployed in large, complex networked environments. The architect/engineer must be highly specialized to provide guidance at various stages of planning and implementing secure design, processes, and resilient solutions. This resource will have significant interaction with Infrastructure Management leadership, its engineering and architecture teams, operations team, and datacenter teams.

SCOPE OF SERVICES: Firewalls and Network Next-Gen Firewall, Routing and Defensive Security, DNS, DDOS: design, implementation, and configuration

TASKS:

1. Participate in design meetings and reviews from a security and network perspective on assigned priority projects.
2. Propose networking security architecture to meet the business requirements and while adhering to client's best practices guidelines.
3. Collaborate with client's Architect teams for developing operable solutions for Citywide requirements.
4. Complete all requirements for installing new network or firewall devices.
5. Follow process for new devices provisioning of integrated systems.
6. Configure ports, configure firewalls, and apply the base templates configurations, integrate the appliances into production network.
7. Develop and validate base configurations for the new firewall.
8. Follow established procedures to successfully replace firewalls and firewall rules.

MANDATORY SKILLS/EXPERIENCE:

Note: Candidates who do not have the mandatory skills will not be considered:

1. Minimum 12 years of experience in the field of networking, network security and firewalls
2. Must have hands-on experience with Palo Alto
3. Deep understanding and experience of DNS, NTP, BGP and other critical infrastructure protocols.
4. Must understand BGP, MPLS, OSPF, IS-IS routing protocols in a large environment. Deep understanding on routing, load balancing and networking infrastructure.

DESIRABLE SKILLS/EXPERIENCE:

1. Hands on experience in Cisco and Palo Alto firewall technology
2. Additional experience in the field of load balancing.
3. Good project management skills
4. Ability to simultaneously work on multiple projects