VPN/Firewall Engineer with Security Clearance

POSITION MUST HAVES: •Requires B.S. Degree and 7-12 years of prior relevant experience. Work experience may be substituted for degree at Hiring Manager’s discretion.

• U.S. Citizen with an active DoD Secret security clearance.
• Must currently possess an active DoD 8570.01 IAT Level III Certification i.e. CCNP Security, CISSP, or CASP+.
• Must currently possess an active Associate level Network Vendor Certification (from one of the following Vendors): Cisco, Juniper, Palo, F5 Networks.
• Ability to work or be called in to work during off-hours to meet customer mission support requirements.
• Participate in on-call rotation for Incident Management responsibilities among the Transport Operations team.
• Network Subject Matter Expert for operations providing Tier-III support to the NOC watch staff.
• Perform highly technical maintenance and configuration to firewalls, VPNs, and DMZ appliances.
• Extensive experience engineering and troubleshooting networks, including routing, switching, MPLS, VPNs, routing protocols (i.e. BGP, OSPF, IS-IS), switching protocols (i.e. Spanning Tree Protocol, VLANs, LLDP, VoIP) Multicast protocols and emerging network technologies.
• Strong understanding and in-depth knowledge of IP network/subnet addressing.
• Extensive knowledge of defense-in-depth principles, Network architecture, Modern Network Topologies, Network appliance integrity, and common networking security elements.
• Ansible, Python, IaC network automation experience.