Firewall Architect - New York, United States - Software People, Inc.

Description

Job Description

Phone/Skype Hire. Onsite from day 1

Location: Brooklyn, NY

Duration: 12+ months (35 hrs/week High Possibility of Further Extensions)

Responsibilities

• Participate in design meetings and reviews from a security and network perspective on assigned priority projects.
• Propose networking security architecture to meet the business requirements and while adhering to best practices guidelines.
• Collaborate with Architect teams for developing operable solutions for Citywide requirements.
• Complete all requirements for installing new network or firewall devices.
• Follow OTI process for new devices provisioning of integrated systems.
• Configure ports, configure firewalls, and apply the base templates configurations, integrate the appliances into production network.
• Develop and validate base configurations for the new firewall.
• Follow established procedures to successfully replace firewalls and firewall rules.

Skills Needed

• Minimum 12 years of experience in the field of networking, network security and firewalls
• Must have hands-on experience with Palo Alto
• Deep understanding and experience of DNS, NTP, BGP and other critical infrastructure protocols.
• Must understand BGP, MPLS, OSPF, IS-IS routing protocols in a large environment.
• Deep understanding on routing, load balancing and networking infrastructure.
• Hands on experience in Cisco and Palo Alto firewall technology
• Additional experience in the field of load balancing.
• Good project management skills
• Ability to simultaneously work on multiple projects