Lead Firewall Engineer

Clearance: Active TS/SCI. Experience: 8+ years.

Lead an enterprise boundary security team responsible for firewall operations, engineering, compliance, and modernization. Provide technical direction, oversee complex troubleshooting, and support secure, reliable network performance.

Responsibilities

• Lead daily firewall operations, maintenance, troubleshooting, and project execution.
• Design and implement solutions using Palo Alto, Juniper SRX, and F5 technologies.
• Review network changes and assess operational and security impacts.
• Maintain secure configuration baselines, architecture diagrams, inventories, procedures, and technical documentation.
• Monitor performance, logs, software versions, and configuration drift.
• Lead compliance reviews, technical evaluations, and modernization efforts.
• Brief stakeholders and mentor engineering personnel.

Requirements

• Active TS/SCI clearance with the ability to obtain and maintain a CI polygraph.
• At least eight years of network security experience, including five years supporting large enterprise networks.
• Experience leading a firewall or boundary security team.
• Advanced experience with Palo Alto, Juniper SRX, and F5 platforms.
• Strong knowledge of firewall policy, TLS/SSL, PKI, Kerberos, LDAP, Active Directory, SAML, OAuth, and network architecture.
• Experience with network design, implementation, cost estimates, and labor estimates.
• Current DoD 8140/8570 IAT Level II certification.
• Ability to obtain CSSP Infrastructure Support certification within 120 days.
• Availability for occasional evening or weekend work.

Preferred Qualifications

• Bachelor's or master's degree in computer science, cybersecurity, network security, or a related field.
• F5, Juniper, or Palo Alto professional certification.