Salary: up to $160,000 plus 15% company-paid 401k
Required Clearance: Active TS/SCI with polygraph
Position Overview:
This position will provide boundary protection to an enterprise level infrastructure across multiple classifications and act as subject matter experts in boundary technologies across multiple vendors.
- Maintain the security and networking of enterprise boundary enclaves and devices
- Responsible for installing software, applying patches, managing file systems, and monitoring performance of firewall systems
- Provide support for Palo Alto, Cisco Adaptive Security Appliance (ASA), and Forcepoint firewall equipment and applications
- Generate, determine impact of, and implement custom proxy policies and/or policy exceptions in response to ongoing technology implementation activities on the program
- Proxy Subject Matter Expert (SME) for integration of other technologies within the program (function as an SME on ongoing technology projects)
- Support the troubleshooting of web connectivity problems to determine root cause
- Perform Proxy solution component upgrades, testing and configuration
- Research and develop evidence collection, protection, and analysis techniques for customer owned and maintained hardware and/or software
- Provide real-time monitoring and alerting of security incident investigations on perimeter/internal infrastructure
- Provide day-to-day Operations and Maintenance (O&M) support for all incident management events and outages
- Collaborate with IT staff on projects and initiatives
- Provide input for monthly progress and status reporting of Service Level Agreements (SLAs)
- Work with all corresponding technical support teams as required to resolve network traffic concerns
- Utilize monitoring tools and log collectors to provide in-depth analysis on traffic anomalies and issues
REQUIREMENTS
Candidate must have 16 years of experience that can be a combination of work history and education. This equates to a Doctorate and 8 years, master’s and 10 years, bachelor’s and 12 years, associates and 14 years or HS diploma and 16 years. Additional required qualifications include:
- Candidate must have 7 years of relevant boundary protection experience delivering fault tolerant data network infrastructure solutions and incident response
- Must comply with DoD 8570 Information Assurance Technical (IAT) Level 2.
- Experience in configuring and troubleshooting boundary protection technologies such as Palo Alto, Cisco ASA, and Forcepoint appliances
- Experience with proxy technologies such as Bluecoat proxies or equivalent applications
- Working knowledge or Routing and Networking fundamentals
- Working knowledge of boundary protection best practices
- Understanding of routing, switching, Internet Protocol (IP) subnet, Network Address Translation (NAT) and security technologies
- Demonstrated ability to engineer and modify rulesets to allow connectivity for new customer requirements
- Demonstrated ability to read, understand, and develop schematic diagrams, technical manuals, and documentation such that the supported equipment and software can be maintained with minimal training
- Working knowledge of Service Now or similar IT Service Management (ITSM) products
- Superior verbal and written communication skills
- Intermediate-level knowledge of MS Office products Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and Visio
- Work rotating schedules and after-hours on-call support
Job Type: Full-time
Pay: Up to $160,000.00 per year
Benefits:
- 401(k)
- Dental insurance
- Flexible schedule
- Health insurance
- Health savings account
- Life insurance
- Paid time off
- Vision insurance
Schedule:
Application Question(s):
- Do you have an active TS/SCI w/poly?
Security clearance:
Ability to Relocate:
- Chantilly, VA: Relocate before starting work (Required)
Work Location: In person