Firewall Engineer

About the role

The Team is responsible to protect the enterprise by reviewing requests for ingress and egress access. This position requires the ability to help align requests with existing policies and also the ability to help educate users on standard security methodology. This position is responsible to review requests and ensure initial compliance to network connectivity models and policies. This is a Contract position based out of Nashville, TN. Application deadline: Oct 16, 2026. Workplace type: Fully onsite in Nashville, TN.

Responsibilities

• Processing of requests for firewall rules or other Border Protection Team service offerings.
• The candidate will be expected to take accountability for managing multiple concurrent requests within multiple ticket queues and ensuring compliance to documented SLA agreements.
• Collaborate with firewall rule requesters, application teams, security engineers, enterprise architects, and other team members to ensure requests align with Caterpillar policies
• Review and provide counsel for requests to help align them with the enterprise direction, policies, or enhance security around a solution
• Understand Enterprise Security Directives, network models, and enterprise architecture patterns to ensure the alignment of a request
• Offer alternative solutions if a request does not align with current policies
• Manage the completion of own work assignments and coordinate work with other team members
• Work with Linux, MySQL, Perl and network tools to analyze requests
• Ability to work independently with minimal direction to fulfill standard service requests
• Ability to work with a global customer and technical audience
• Functional level understanding of firewall administration, network traffic collection tools, and overall understanding of network infrastructure
• Manage, participate in, or directly work on any additional projects, assignments, or initiatives assigned by management

Requirements

• High level of initiative and accountability
• 2-4 years of job-related experience (network and/or IT)
• Strong diagnostic