Network Security Firewall Engineer

H2 Performance Consulting is subject to the Vietnam Era Veteran's Readjustment Assistance Act as a Federal Contractor and is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employer and strives to build a diverse workforce. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, pregnancy, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age, protected veteran status or disability status. Additionally, as mandated under Executive order 12989, H2 is required to verify employment eligibility of selected candidates through the Department of Labor’s - E-Verify.

H2 Performance Consulting is currently seeking a Network Security Firewall Engineer will configure, monitor, and maintain network security equipment including, access control lists (ACLs), layer 3 and 4 firewalls, and layer 4-7 application-aware firewalls.

Network Security Firewall Engineer responsibilities includes:

• Skill in implementation of physical and virtual firewalls.
• Experience with Remedy trouble ticketing system.
• Manage firewall and network security systems by establishing and enforcing approved policies.
• Ability to research and verify ports, protocol and services (PPS) for security compliance.
• A thorough understanding of how applications communicate over the network using source and destination IP addresses, ports and protocols.
• Ability to analyze network security requirements and implement perimeter security changes.
• Serve as a subject matter expert in coordinating and troubleshooting with customers, other infrastructure support activities and business units.
• Develop network documentation of security infrastructure.
• Troubleshooting a variety of products within a multi-vendor environment.
• Monitor network performance and implement performance tuning as necessary.
• Utilize industry best practices for security, disaster recovery, business continuity, change control, the engineer will design, configure, manage and troubleshoot a variety of network firewall technologies.

Required Qualifications / Certifications:

• 12 years of Networking experience
• Knowledge or experience of Cisco ASA and Palo Alto Firewalls
• Experience in administrating and troubleshooting firewalls in medium to large, complex organizations.
• Preferred applicants will also have experience with intrusion detection systems, VPN technologies, vulnerability assessment tools, event and log analysis solutions, configuration and change management and other network security systems and devices.
• Solid experience configuring and troubleshooting routing and switched infrastructure.

Clearance Qualifications:

• Active Secret security clearance at the time of application

Qualified candidates may submit their resume to the career section of our company website at http://www.h2pc.com.   All resumes will be reviewed within 5 business days and those candidates we wish to further in the application process will be contacted via email/phone to schedule initial phone screens.