Enterprise Firewall Lead

Job Description

Job Title: Enterprise Firewall Lead

Location: Maximum telework acceptable, but candidates are required to be located within a 50-mile radius of Boyers, PA or Macon, GA in the event of catastrophic outages

Scope of Work:

S2i2, Inc. is currently seeking a Enterprise Firewall Lead for a potential contract to assist the Office of Personnel Management (OPM), Office of the Chief Information Officer (OCIO), Information Technology Operating Systems (ITOS), and Cybersecurity Divisions with modernizing and leveraging cloud technologies to improve the delivery of OPM services while also enhancing its infrastructure capabilities.

Ideal Candidate:

· Significant experience in engineering, implementing, and supporting a wide variety of enterprise class network solutions including expert level support qualifications for Palo Alto firewalls, Microsoft Azure Premium firewalls, and other equivalent systems

· Experience working with VMWare backed networks and hosts, service inserted firewall solutions, traffic steering algorithms in VMware based systems, micro-segmentation strategies and flow based firewalling solutions

· Experience implementing user and application based inspection algorithms, expert level support of physical and virtual Palo Alto based firewall solutions

· Advanced understand of layer 3 technologies including routing protocols including BGP, experience with various Virtual Private Network technologies

Skills:

· Project lead and management experience

· Demonstrable history of leading successful deployments of enterprise class solutions

· Skilled at producing technical documents and engineering diagrams

· Strong written and verbal skills

· Team focused

· Solid understanding of zero trust principles

· Flow based firewalling techniques

· Expert level support for Palo Alto firewalls in an enterprise environment

· Experience with Microsoft Azure including configuration and support of Azure premium firewall and configuration of other segregation solutions including network security group and application security groups.

Experience: 7+ years

Certifications:

· AZ-900: Microsoft Azure Fundamentals

· AZ-700 Designing and Implementing Azure Networking

· Cisco Certified Network Associate (CCNA)

· Palo Alto Accredited Certification Engineer (ACE)