[Hiring] Firewall Consultant @West Advanced Technologies (WATI)

Role Description

A Security Engineer serves as the security engineer of complex technology implementations in a product-centric environment; is comfortable with bridging the gap between legacy development or operations teams and working toward a shared culture and vision; works to ensure developers create the most secure systems while enhancing the privacy of all system users; and has experience with white-hat hacking and fundamental computer science concepts.

• Perform security audits, risk analysis, application-level vulnerability testing, and security code reviews.
• Develop and implement technical solutions to help mitigate security vulnerabilities.
• Conduct research to identify new attack vectors.

Qualifications

• Knowledge and experience in safeguarding sensitive data from cyber-attacks.
• Minimum of ten (10) years of experience with developing and implementing technical solutions to help mitigate security vulnerabilities.
• Bachelor's degree in an IT-related or Engineering field. Additional qualifying experience may be substituted for the required education on a year-for-year basis.

Requirements

• Cisco ASA Firewalls engineering and operations in multi-context mode experience.
• Cisco FirePower Firewalls engineering and operations experience.
• Cisco Firewall Management Console (FMC) engineering and operations experience.
• Cisco Command Line Interface (CLI) engineering and operations experience.
• Cisco ACL reviewing, editing and maintaining experience.
• Cisco Site-to-Site (S2S) Virtual Private Networking (VPN) experience with focus on double/twice NAT architecture.
• Firepower Intrusion Prevention Systems (IPS) engineering and operations experience.
• Palo Alto Firewalls experience (is secondary and does not replace Cisco experience required).
• Flexible schedule to support out of hours upgrades/patches/etc. and rotating on-call schedule with team mates.
• Ability to quickly learn and find technical information quickly to resolve problems.
• Ability to be on camera for all meetings, working sessions, etc., as requested.
• Ability to work with outside vendors for additional support tasks.
• Daily tasks include configuring, managing, maintaining, and troubleshooting Cisco ASA and FirePower firewalls.
• Experience in configuring, managing, maintaining, and troubleshooting ACLs, S2S VPNs, BGP connections, IPSec, routing, optimizing/tuning, etc. in multi-context mode.
• Experience using Command Line Interface (CLI) for most tasks.
• Experience using the Firewall Management Console (FMC).
• Configures, manages, maintains, and troubleshoots Cisco FirePower Intrusion Prevention Systems (IPSs).
• Works with the Datacenter Engineers and Security teams to add routes, troubleshoot complex networking issues, make recommendations on configurations, etc.

Benefits

• This position focuses on both data center firewall engineering and operations, and the secure deployment and monitoring of these environments.
• The ideal candidate will be very comfortable administering Cisco infrastructure including both CLI and FMC interfaces to accomplish their goals.
• Due to the complexity and volume of the County's network, the ideal candidate will be comfortable working in fast-paced critical support systems environments, and will have the ability to quickly learn and adapt to unfamiliar technologies or situations.