Palo Alto Engineer
PRIMARY RESPONSIBILITIES:
- Identify and remediate misconfigurations, conflicting rules, security gaps, firewall and load balancer security issues, optimize rule-sets, and enhance the overall security posture and performance of Firewalls and Load Balancers
- Provide Tier 3 support to members of the operations network administrations.
- Maintain all HW and SW components at vendor supported levels.
- Support mission-critical Continuity of Operations (COOP).
- Conduct a minimum of two (2) assessment of firewall each month on CESO and customer devices and generate assessment reports and provide recommendations for improvements.
- Support the creation of network device performance and traffic utilization monthly reports.
- Develop and/or participate in After Action Reports (AARs)
- Provide expert advice and direction regarding the management and operation of all Palo Alto devices in the DISA CESO enterprise architecture.
- Interact with the customer point of contact to set objectives/goals based on Palo Alto Networks technologies and available technology roadmap for architecture and design discussions.
- Evaluate current technologies and processes associated with DISA CESO to identify gaps.
- Provide requirements and strategies for future cybersecurity operations.
- Active participant in meetings with DISA CESO and mission partner working groups.
- Adhere to applicable DOD STIGs, DISA applicable orders, and JSIG policy, guidelines, and regulations.
Qualifications:
- Bachelor's degree and 12+ years of directly relevant experience. Add'l experience may be considered in lieu of degree.
- 10+ years of hands-on Cisco / Palo Alto Firewall experience in both engineering and Operations and maintenance roles.
- Strong knowledge of Palo Alto concepts and best practices:
- Panorama Installation
- Panorama HA Config
- Panorama Template and Template Stacks
- Panorama Policy creation and push to group of Firewalls and Verify Push
- Palo Alto Route configuration
- Palo Alto IPSec Site to Site VPN Config and Troubleshooting
- Palo Alto VM in AWS
- Palo Alto IPS Configuration
- Palo Alto Virtual Router / Systems
- Palo Alto Firewall HA
- Experience working in a high op-temp, Top Secret environment.
- Candidate must possess an active DOD Top Secret level security clearance, and be eligible to obtain and maintain a TS/SCI
- Candidate must be willing to take and maintain a CI/Poly
- 8570 IAT Level II Baseline Certification (e.g. CCNA Security, CySA+, GICSP, GSEC, Security+ CE, CND, SSCP)
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What We Do
Gray Tier Technolgies is a privately held company providing full cyclic cybersecurity services and products. Gray Tier is headquartered in Alexandria, VA with offices in Orlando, FL and Denver Co. Our vision is to be the premier security services and solutions provider for our Enterprise, Government, and military customers. To prepare our customers to defend their systems against global cyber threats. By leveraging our many years of defending mission-critical systems for the US military we are here to help you safeguard your corporate data from attackers. Gray Tier’s experts use techniques and tactics from world-wide cyber threats to provide a realistic evaluation of your network defenses against today’s adversaries.
