FIREWALL ADMINISTRATOR

Travel: Frequent travel to site in Riverdale, MD. Targeted Start: 10/15/2012 Travel Required: none Overview: Entry-level firewall administrator needed to assist in day-to-day operational security duties in a firewall group handling Cisco, Juniper, and Palo Alto Network firewalls. T&E Provided: No Responsibilities: - Coordination with various IT operations teams. - Perform Cisco security upgrades (including testing and roll-out). - Respond and analyze security incidents and events. - Build, monitor, and troubleshoot Cisco and Juniper IPSEC VPN tunnels. - Monitor, maintain, and implement security policies on firewalls. Qualifications: - Experience working with Cisco networking and security solutions, usually gained over 1-2 years (including routers, switches, and firewalls). - Familiarity with Juniper and other firewall platforms preferred. - Experience using common networking tools to aid in troubleshooting, including nmap, wireshark, tcpdump, Solarwinds, and others. - Basic understanding of proxy and URL filtering services for end users (Websense preferred). - Basic understanding of anti-virus and client disk encryption technologies. - Basic understanding of IDS/IPS and SIEM operation. - Expertise in common networking concepts and protocols including, but not limited to: - TCP/UDP ports and protocols. - The OSI model. - Layer 2 switching concepts (spanning tree, VLAN trunking, etc.). - Experience with common network tools (e.g. tcpdump, Wireshark). - Extremely process and detail oriented. - Strong written and verbal communication skills. Qualifications: - Cisco or Juniper Security certifications (CCSP, etc.) greatly preferred . - General security certifications (CISSP et al) preferred .

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