Senior Firewall Administrator

AGE Solutions is looking for a Senior Firewall Administrator to provide overall supervision for the firewall team to include planning and managing firewall team projects, ensuring work is scheduled properly to obtain maximum use of resources; and ensuring accurate and timely submission of required reports.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities:

• Provide overall supervision for the firewall team to include planning and managing firewall team projects.
• Must have the ability to resolve problems, allocate resources, manage personnel, and monitor operation performance taking direction from the government to ensure complete satisfaction.
• Work under general supervision, developing requirements from inception to conclusion.
• Must have working knowledge and understanding of industry standard network environments, firewall and security hardware/software, and Information Assurance Best Practices.
• Develop required specifications for simple to moderately complex problems.
• Coordinates with the third-party vendors and government user representatives to ensure accurate solutions and user satisfaction on technical matters.
• In depth knowledge of LAN and WAN operations.
• Knowledge of industry standard Incident Ticket Tracking systems for inputting incident tickets and creating work orders.
• Comprehensive knowledge of DoD and DLA security regulations, guidelines and policies including IA standards.
• Working knowledge of the installation, configuration and day-to-day sustainment of network equipment to include firewalls and other network appliances.

Required Skills, Qualifications and Experience:

• Citizenship and Clearance:
  
  
  
  • US Citizenship is required.
  • Must have and maintain a current DoD Secret clearance.
  
  
  
  
• Experience: 5 years of relevant experience to include:
  
  
  
  • Working knowledge and understanding of industry standard network environments, firewall and security hardware/software, and Information Assurance Best Practices.
  • In depth knowledge of LAN and WAN operations.
  • Knowledge of industry standard Incident Ticket Tracking systems for inputting incident tickets and creating work orders.
  • Comprehensive knowledge of DoD and DLA security regulations, guidelines and policies including IA standards.
  • Working knowledge of the installation, configuration and day-to-day sustainment of network equipment to include firewalls and other network appliances.
  
  
  
  
• Certification Requirements:
  
  
  
  • Computing Environment (must have one of the following):
    
    
    
    • CheckPoint Certified Security Associates (CCSA)
    • CheckPoint Certified Security Expert (CCSE)
    • CheckPoint Security Master (CCSM)
    
    
    
    
  • IAT-II certification (must have one of the following):
    
    
    
    • CCNA Security
    • CYSA+
    • GSEC
    • Security+CE
    • SSCP
    • CASP+CE
    • CISA
    • CISSP
    • CCNP Security
    
    
    
    
  
  
  
  
• Location: This is a remote position within the United States.

Work Environment and Physical Demand

• Must be able to sit for long periods of time
• Must be able to lift 30 pounds

Compensation: $120,000 - $130,000