Overview

Cayuse Native Hawaiian Veterans (CNHV) provides innovative and flexible solutions to federal government clients, emphasizing excellence in the Asia-Pacific region. CNHV's capabilities, market-relevant service offerings, past performance credentials, and diverse status allow government clients to engage quickly and confidently with CNHV. Core service areas for CNHV include Health & Medical Services, Unexploded Ordnance (UXO), Surface & Underwater Range Clearance, Explosive Ordnance Disposal (EOD), Executive Briefing Teams, Training, Exercise Support, Computer Facilities, and Emergency Management Services.

Cayuse Native Hawaiian Veterans is seeking a Firewall Engineer to join our team at Department of State, Diplomatic Security, Office of the Chief Technology Officer (DS/CTO). This initiative is intended to provide IT Operations and Maintenance to modernized and legacy networks, applications, and databases.

All duties and responsibilities performed in accordance with the Core Values of Cayuse.

Responsibilities

• Engineer to support LAN network optimization and standardization at DOS facilities.
• Coordinate through DS/CTO to engineer upgrades to WAN links.
• Engineer and implement high availability load balancing, and dynamic service health checks to maximize availability of all public-facing websites in the Public DMZs.
• In conjunction with other DOS teams, engineer, implement, and monitor denial of service detection.
• Lead the support of upgrades required to connect partner agencies to the DS IT network infrastructure.
• Design enhancements and upgrades to systems for potential future cloud integration/migration.
• Develop, document and maintain standards and procedures manuals, and performance management procedures that meet DS/CTO's requirements.
• Perform network component tuning to maintain optimum performance in accordance with change management procedures.
• Operates and maintains network environments that support connectivity for DOS information technology systems.
• Works with DS and partner organizations to establish and maintain secure WAN/LAN connectivity.
• Participate in the implementation and troubleshooting of Firewall Rules for networking devices and application communications and connectivity.
• Participate in Configuration Change Boards.
• Diagram, document, and maintain configuration management artifacts for Network and Firewall Environments.
• Installs, configures, troubleshoots, and maintains routers, switches, firewalls, load balancers, and API gateways per established DOS policies and procedures as required.
• Monitors, identifies, and manages network performance issues such as over-utilization, latency, CPU utilization, IDS/IPS, memory allocation, packet loss, and availability.
• Performs root cause analysis and documents all existing and potential network/firewall problems and outages associated with corrective actions.
• Analyzes network equipment logs to identify trends and problems and maximize network performance through continuous monitoring and troubleshooting.
• Participate in planning meetings to execute proactive system upgrades and new technology implementations.
• Other duties as assigned.

Qualifications

• Bachelors degree and 5 years’ experience in network/firewall administration
• Must have experience in existing DS/CTO firewall systems.
• Active Top-Secret clearance.
• Must be able to pass a background check. May require additional background checks as required by projects and/or clients at any time during employment.

Minimum Skills:

• Self-starter with the ability to learn new tasks and skills.
• Strong organization and communications skills.
• Ability to multitask and have practical time management skills.
• Team Player
• Proficient in Microsoft Office Suite, Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Teams, and SharePoint.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Current network certifications
• Experience with configuring and troubleshooting firewall devices.
• Knowledge of network tools such as Panorama, Splunk, NeuralStar, Niksun NetOmni, Solarwinds, Wireshark, or Grafana.
• Experience working in Department of State
• Background demonstrating leading projects for improving LAN/WAN/Firewall infrastructure, implementing new capabilities, and/or remediating problem areas.
• Background demonstrating the ability to operate effectively within a complex, dynamic environment.
• Knowledge in principals of networking such as TCP/IP, SNMP, IPSEC, and SSH.
• Knowledge in configuration and troubleshooting of Cisco routers and switches.
• Knowledge in configuring and troubleshooting firewall systems.
• Knowledge in analyzing and interpreting network/firewall monitoring logs, rules, and outputs to create actionable remediating tasks.

Reports to: Client Account Director

Working Conditions

• Professional office environment
• Must be physically and mentally able to perform duties for extended periods of time. Ability to use a computer and other office productivity tools with sufficient speed to meet the demands of this position.
• Must be able to establish a productive and professional workspace.
• Polished office protocols, high-tempo communication streams and working conditions.
• Must be able to work varying work schedules and/or extended hours to meet business needs and project deadlines.
• Must be able to attend and conduct virtual meetings as needed.
• May be asked to travel for business or professional development purposes.

Other Duties: Please note this job description is not designed to cover or contain a comprehensive list of activities, duties or responsibilities that are required of the employee for this job. Duties, responsibilities, and activities may change at any time with or without notice.

Affirmative Action/EEO Statement: Cayuse embraces diversity and equal opportunity in a serious way. We celebrate diversity and are committed to creating and building a team that represents a variety of backgrounds, perspectives, and skills. Cayuse, and all of its subsidiaries, are proud to be an equal opportunity workplace and are an affirmative action employer.

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