
Tier III Boundary Protection Engineer (NE III) (Government)
- Las Cruces, NM
- $71,600-170,000 per year
- Permanent
- Full-time
- Maintain the security and networking of enterprise boundary enclaves and devices.
- Responsible for installing software, applying patches, managing file systems, and monitoring performance of firewall systems.
- Provide support for Palo Alto, Cisco Adaptive Security Appliance (ASA), and Forcepoint firewall equipment and applications.
- Generate, determine impact of, and implement custom proxy policies and/or policy exceptions in response to ongoing technology implementation activities on the program.
- Proxy Subject Matter Expert (SME) for integration of other technologies within the program (function as a SME on ongoing technology projects).
- Support the troubleshooting of web connectivity problems to determine root cause.
- Perform Proxy solution component upgrades, testing and configuration.
- Research and develop evidence collection, protection, and analysis techniques for customer owned and maintained hardware and/or software.
- Provide real-time monitoring and alerting of security incident investigations on perimeter/internal infrastructure.
- Provide day-to-day Operations and Maintenance (O&M) support for all incident management events and outages.
- Collaborate with IT staff on projects and initiatives.
- Provide input for monthly progress and status reporting of Service Level Agreements (SLAs).
- Work with all corresponding technical support teams as required to resolve network traffic concerns.
- Utilize monitoring tools and log collectors to provide in-depth analysis on traffic anomalies and issues.
- Candidate must have 7 years of relevant boundary protection experience delivering fault tolerant data network infrastructure solutions and incident response.
- Must comply with DoD 8140 Information Assurance Technical (IAT) Level 2.
- Experience in configuring and troubleshooting boundary protection technologies such as Palo Alto, Cisco ASA, and Forcepoint appliances.
- Experience with proxy technologies such as Bluecoat proxies or equivalent applications.
- Working knowledge or Routing and Networking fundamentals.
- Working knowledge of boundary protection best practices.
- Understanding of routing, switching, Internet Protocol (IP) subnet, Network Address Translation (NAT) and security technologies.
- Demonstrated ability to engineer and modify rulesets to allow connectivity for new customer requirements.
- Demonstrated ability to read, understand, and develop schematic diagrams, technical manuals, and documentation such that the supported equipment and software can be maintained with minimal training.
- Working knowledge of Service Now or similar IT Service Management (ITSM) products.
- Superior verbal and written communication skills.
- Intermediate-level knowledge of MS Office products Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and Visio.
- Work rotating schedules and after-hours on-call support.