Senior Firewall Engineer

SAIC • Springfield, VA

14h • Hybrid

About The Position

The Network Technologies Business Unit currently has an opening for a Senior Firewall Engineer to support a Department of State (DoS) Bureau of Diplomatic Technology (DT) program. This position is for engineering and design of firewall solutions for on-prem and cloud based networks as well as integrations between the two. It requires hands-on expertise, leadership of engineers, and engagement with senior customer leadership. This program provides transparent, interconnected systems and security supporting the DoS in successfully carrying out its U.S. foreign policy mission. DT provides enterprise architecture design, engineering, operations and maintenance support services for desktops, servers, networks, firewalls, and enterprise applications across the Department. Program is named "Vanguard 2025" and is an IT consolidation consisting of the Department's servers, mainframes, network devices, network perimeter, anti-virus engineering, public key infrastructure (PKI)/biometrics/encryption, monitoring tools, telephony, mobile computing platform, virtual environment, and enclave design/security engineering.

Requirements

• hands-on expertise
• leadership of engineers
• engagement with senior customer leadership

Responsibilities

• Evaluates, designs, documents, and performs problem isolation and resolution, monitors, tunes, sets standards and maintains a range of firewall and firewall related products.
• Provides client consulting and training on the design and use of the firewall systems and architectures.
• Uses monitoring, performance analysis, network management, software and hardware equipment to troubleshoot and isolate problems; gauge performance and activity.
• Work with Architects to design and engineer solutions to operational problems within the capacity and operational limitations of installed solutions.
• May develop contingency plans for firewall related hardware failures including isolated and major outages.
• Provides internal consulting, technical guidance, information and support to application developers, computer operations, management, and departmental clients.
• Plan, research, evaluate and recommend new firewall and related technologies – hardware and software.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior
• Education Level: No Education Listed
• Number of Employees: 1-10 employees