Network Security Administrator Job in Washington, District Of Columbia US
This position provides general Tier II monitoring, configuration, and support in a large global enterprise firewall environment supporting over 80,000 users on a 24/7 basis. Current opening is for the midnight shift Tuesday - Saturday.
Responsibilities include:
· Recognize high priority tickets and users, and take action within the agreed upon service level targets.
· Provide input to the Operation SOPs, reference documents, and operational technical guides.
· Monitor and check status for Stonegate and Sidewinder Firewalls and clusters to include active connections, logging activity, disk space, suspicious log activity, and cluster load balance on an hourly basis.
· Implement IP blocks requested by the CIRT team and make the appropriate changes on all applicable firewalls.
· Provide tier-2 support and troubleshooting of content filtering systems to include any database modification requests and reports of objectionable content availability.
· Monitor and status reports for all firewall logs to include verification of continuous logging of all firewalls to appropriate servers on an hourly basis.
· Verify all log servers maintain sufficient amount of disk space and logs are successfully transferred to long-term storage.
· Perform all Health checks as outlined in FW SOP
· Become familiar with and use SharePoint for all operational references in support of operations
Required qualifications:
Technical Expertise
· 3+ years providing hands-on technical engineering operations support in a government and/or large commercial environment.
· Possess demonstrated experience, either through direct hands-on experience or training, with multiple firewall technologies, both monitoring and configuration, and basic TCP/IP network diagnosis and troubleshooting.
· Possess significant knowledge of secure environment computing technologies including firewall, IDS, Linux, MS Windows, and web proxies.
· Previous experience with a ticketing system such as Remedy or UTT.
Formal Education Certification
· BS degree in the field of computer science, business administration, or another rigorous discipline OR 2 years of related experience as a junior engineer, with some business acumen.
· Supporting the monitoring and configuration of Firewall/DMZ infrastructure including Network and Application Firewall Packet Filtering and Web Proxy technologies (Stonegate, Sidewinder, Juniper, CheckPoint, Cisco PIX/ASA, Bluecoat, Websense)
· Basic Microsoft Windows Server 2003/2008 implementation and troubleshooting from a security/firewall perspective
· Basic TCP/IP network implementation and troubleshooting
· NetIQ or other similar monitoring tools
· Formal industry certifications such as Microsoft Certified Systems Engineer (MCSE) and/or Microsoft Certified IT Professional (MCITP – various), CISSP, CCNA, CISSP, Network+, Security+, etc. are a STRONG plus.
Candidate must be a US Citizen and either possess or be able to obtain and maintain a US Government security clearance.
Location: Washington, DC. Relocation assistance is not provided.
Shift: Midnight shift (begins 11:30 pm), Tuesday – Saturday
The Company:
Trusted Mission Solutions is a fast-growing information technology and consulting services provider--chartered to deliver sound, secure solutions to enable client success. We were ranked by Inc. Magazine as one of the 100 fastest growing companies in the DC-VA-MD-WV region in 2007 and a Virginia Fast 50 company in 2009 and 2010.
In 2012 Virginia Business magazine ranked TMS as one of the Best Places to Work in Virginia.
TMS offers excellent benefits, including fully paid employee health/dental, life, and disability insurance, 3 weeks of leave, tuition reimbursement, 401K plan with employer match, flex benefit plans, and SmartBenefits.
Trusted Mission Solutions is an Equal Opportunity Employer.
Trusted Mission Solutions uses E-Verify to validate all new hires' ability to legally work in the US.