What are the responsibilities and job description for the Firewall Engineer position at Izar Associates, Inc.?
Seasoned Palo Alto Firewall administrator with security infrastructure design configuration, installation, and maintenance experience.
• In depth knowledge of Enterprise Network/Security Infrastructure with investigation techniques of security incidents occurring in the perimeter/internal infrastructure utilizing security event analysis tools such as Splunk, Panorama logs, and Wireshark.
• Understanding of routing, switching, IP subnet, NAT and security technologies
• High-level Palo Alto expertise in design, configuration, migrations, tuning and customization of features.
• Understanding of Zones and virtual routers – ability to understand and troubleshoot routing issues
• Knowledge of Panorama, Wildfire, and other Palo Alto features including but not limited to SSL decryption
• Complete ownership of the firewall and network security elements of a project or the implementation of any large-scale system.
• Maintain and enhance forensic infrastructure (hardware and software), processes and procedures, along with supporting documentation, based on industry best practices.
• Provide real time monitoring and alerting analytics and security incident investigation on perimeter/internal infrastructure and applications security events across the Enterprise Environment.
• Examine malicious software (bots, worms, and Trojans) to understand the nature of the threats. Perform reverse engineering to examine how the program interacts with the environment and document the attack capabilities, understand the characteristics, and define signatures to detect malware.
• Oversees and perform administration of all associated Security devices & tools which includes but are not limited to Palo Alto firewall, Remote Access / VPN, Wireless etc. for all network 24x7x365 to make sure all critical (PCI) and non-critical infrastructure and applications are secure.
