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Firewall Administrator

Roles & Responsibilities

  • Minimum 4 years of hands-on firewall administering experience with Juniper and/or Palo Alto firewalls
  • Current certifications such as SecPlus or NetPlus; CISSP or Juniper/Palo Alto certifications prioritized
  • Experience with design, configuration, administration, troubleshooting, and OS upgrades; hardware upgrade coordination
  • Ability to participate in rotational on-call support (approximately one week every 12 weeks) and minimal travel as needed

Requirements:

  • Maintain daily operations for a subset of firewalls in a complex infrastructure, including rule updates and OS upgrades
  • Coordinate hardware upgrades and assist with customer troubleshooting; monitor Service Central tickets
  • Design, configure, administer, and troubleshoot Juniper and/or Palo Alto firewalls; perform related administrative tasks
  • Participate in rotational on-call support (one week every 12 weeks) and attend team meetings/trainings as needed

Job description


Firewall Administrator: we are seeking a candidate with current experience in Juniper and/or Palo Alto firewall design, configuration, administration, and troubleshooting. The role will involve daily maintenance of a subset of firewalls in a complex infrastructure. Daily tasking will include rule updates, OS upgrades, hardware upgrade coordination, customer troubleshooting, Service Central ticket monitoring, and other administrative work. This role will have a rotational on-call support requirement, currently one week every 12 weeks.

Candidate should have a minimum certification of Sec+ or Net+. CISSP or Juniper/Palo Certifications will be prioritized.
Minimal travel may be required for team meetings or training and is not frequent.

Must have experience minimum of 4 years as a firewall administrator working specifically with Juniper and/or Palo Alto; certifications in these will be prioritized over other candidates. Minimum of Sec+ or Net+ cert plus 4 years firewall admin experience required.

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