Firewall Administrator - Washington, United States - Dhara Consulting Group

Dhara Consulting Group

Verified Company

Washington, United States

3 weeks ago

Posted by:

Mark Lane

beBee recruiter

Description

Today

Secret
Unspecified
Unspecified
Washington, DC
(ON-SITE/OFFICE)

Responsibilities & Qualifications
**RESPONSIBILITIES

Analyzing current enterprise Firewall ruleset
Standardizing and developing new Firewall object group naming conventions
Coordinating across teams to implement thoughtful consolidation and reduction of Firewall Rule Sets
Implementing security hardening configurations in alignment with government and industry best practices
Upgrading and refreshing Firewall infrastructure
Performing day to day operations on the agencies Firewall infrastructure
Monitoring and analyzing Firewall system logs
Respond to service requests for Firewall Rules Changes
Respond to network and security incidents, providing logs and other forensic data to incident response teams.
Working with agency engineering teams to develop and design future Firewall architecture for agency.
Assist the agency by recommending and implementing improvements and policies across the enterprise
Take direction from, and provide updates to, the program leadership team.
Maintaining 100% accountability of government furnished equipment.
Complete reports and other project documents in a professional, timely manner, as required.

**REQUIRED QUALIFICATIONS

3 years relevant experience to include the following:
Experience configuring Cisco ASA Firewall ACLs, Security controls, and Network Object Groups
Experience installing and deploying Firewalls (preferred)
Working knowledge of Information Assurance Best Practices
Working knowledge of routing and switching technologies, i.e., routing protocols (BGP, OSPF, EIGRP), spanning tree, VRRP, etc.
Working knowledge of government security regulations, guidelines, and policies is preferred.
Experience analyzing Firewall rulesets, network objects, object groups, etc.
Experience implementing government and/or industry best standards including deny by default firewall policies.
Experience cleaning up firewall rules and standardizing object/rule naming conventions.
Implementing restrictive, deterministic firewall rule bases
Working knowledge of the installation, configuration and daytoday sustainment of network equipment, to include but not limited to: firewalls and other network appliances
Preferred Qualifications:
Five (5) years relevant experience to include the following:
Working knowledge and understanding of industry standard network environments to include firewall and security hardware/software
Working knowledge of Information Assurance Best Practices
In depth knowledge of LAN and WAN operations
Must have minimum active Secret clearance
A degree in IT, computer science, business management, or a related field is preferred.

CERTIFICATIONS
CCNA or CCNP Preferred
Comp TIA Security + CE Preferred

Overview
We are seeking a Firewall Administrator to join our team supporting Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, and Firearms (ATF). In this role, you will be working on a team responsible for administering and defending the ATF network.

TekSynap is a fast growing high-tech company that understands both the pace of technology today and the need to have a comprehensive well planned information management environment.

"Technology moving at the speed of thought" embodies these principles - the need to nimbly utilize the best that information technology offers to meet the business needs of our Federal Government customers.

We offer our full-time employees a competitive benefits package to include health, dental, vision, 401K, life insurance, short-term and long-term disability plans, vacation time and holidays.

The safety and health of our employees is of the utmost importance. Employees are required to comply with any vaccination requirements mandated by contract, applicable law or regulation.

Additional Job Information

WORK ENVIRONMENT AND PHYSICAL DEMANDS

The work environment characteristics described here are representative of those an employee encounters while performing the essential functions of the job.

Reasonable accommodation may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

Location: Remote/Telework
Type of environment: Home Office
Noise level: Low/Medium
Work schedule: Schedule is day shift Monday
Friday. May be requested to work evenings and weekends to meet program and contract needs.
Amount of Travel: Less than 10%

PHYSICAL DEMANDS

The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job.

Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to use hands to handle, feel, touch; reach with hands and arms; talk and hear.

The employee is regularly required to stand; walk; sit; climb or balance; and stoop, kneel, crouch,