Role: Firewall Engineer

Location: Plano, TX (Hybrid)

Contract

Required Technical Skill Set

Strong knowledge in Firewalls like Cisco FTD, FMC & FortiGate firewalls in High-availability mode, F5 load balancer, Cisco ISE
Understanding of SSL, TCP/UDP, HTTP, FTP/SFTP, NTP, Telnet, NFS, SSH, LDAP, DHCP, DNS, etc.
VPN concepts like GRE Tunnel, IPSEC VPNs, SSL & DMVPN, IPS and IDS
Monitoring Tool, SolarWinds
Good understanding of Switching, Routing & SDWAN concepts
Good understanding of Meraki SDWAN, MX firewalls, MS switch and MR wireless
Design, deploy, and manage networks using the Cisco Meraki Dashboard

Desired Competencies (Technical/Behavioral Competency)

Must-Have

Level 2/3 Network Security Engineer
Play a Subject Matter Expert (SME) role on network security technologies
Deep and strong understanding of firewall (Layer-2 and Layer-3), Internet proxy, DNS, SSL VPN, S2S VPN, F5 Load balancer, Qradar and IPS technologies.
Ability to implement and support complex security architectures involving but not limited to the above listed technologies.
Strong experience on Cisco FTD & FortiGate firewalls
Very strong hands-on experience on implementation and advanced troubleshooting in Cisco FTD, FMC, FortiGate, Watch guard firewalls in High-availability mode, F5 load balancer, Cisco ISE
Maintaining various firewalls, virtual private networks, web protocols, and email security.
Firewall Migration, hardware replacement & upgradation along with WAN circuit migration for multiple ISP.
Extensive exposure on proxies, Cisco Umbrella involving complex traffic troubleshooting.

Firewall Engineer

Key skills