Firewall Security Analyst

NetSage's mission is to help our customers achieve their missions by providing superior cyber services. We seek talented professionals who are interested in doing meaningful, mission-focused work for the US Federal Government. We are a growing Company that puts our employees first and offers excellent pay and world-class benefits. We do not hire contract by contract; instead, we offer multiple job options and career progression for our employees. We realize that our website and job descriptions may be a little vague and that's on purpose because of the customers we support. Please connect with us using our Contact Us page if you have any questions about any of our job-openings.

Job Description:

NetSage is hiring an experienced Firewall Security Analyst to support a very large federal government customer with their Firewall Change Management. The ideal candidate for this role will be able to step-in and support the staff that is currently managing the firewall change request process, which includes:

• Understanding the technical network details of the firewall change request.
• Understanding the request in the context of broader IT modernization initiatives.
• Working with the User and Network Services (UNS) team to identify any gaps in the request that may require interaction with the customer.
• Ensuring the request has been authorized.
• Approving authorized requests in a timely manner.
• Validating that approved firewall change requests have been implemented in a manner consistent with least privilege; includes review of firewall log events to validate proper implementation.
• Closing completed firewall change requests that have been successfully implemented by associating the individual firewall policy changes with the original request; this maintains the required audit trail.

Required Qualifications:

• U.S. citizenship.
• A Public Trust clearance or the ability to obtain the clearance.
• Solid networking background including operational understanding of IP networking fundamentals such as IPv4 and IPv6 network addressing; subnetting; routing principles; TCP and UDP; RFC1918 IP addressing; encrypted vs. unencrypted protocols; application of security at various layers of the OSI model.
• Clear understanding of how firewall policy works and the difference between port based and application layer (next generation) firewalls.
• Ability to analyze and interpret network [firewall] log events.
• Ability to prioritize tasks, apply critical thinking skills, and be detail oriented. 

Desired Qualifications:

• Experience as a firewall administrator.
• Experience with Palo Alto and FortiGate firewalls.
• Experience with Splunk for log review / traffic analysis.