Palo Alto Firewall Engineer-------------Need GC and USC

Palo Alto Firewall Engineer

Location: North Fort Worth, TX

Length: 6+ months.

Need GC and USC

Candidates must have the following:

1. Palo Alto Engineering or Administration experience in a large enterprise environment. 3-5 Years total.

2. Good network knowledge.

3. There will be a mixture of engineering, support and helping with best practices for their network security environment.

JOB DESCRIPTION

As a Palo Alto Security Engineer in the Enterprise Security group, primary activities and responsibilities include but are not limited to:

• Enforcing security standards and best practices for all aspects of this client’s network and perimeter security platforms

• Developing, implementing, and improving upon the enterprise security network segmentation strategy

• Providing security consulting services concerning network/perimeter security best practices to internal application and systems development teams

• Working with the Security Operations Center to implement appropriate network and systems monitoring and to act as a mentor

• Evaluating supplier security tools and appliances to support BNSF security policies and standards

• Managing the implementation of security tools using best practices

• Monitoring security data and reports taking action to implement preventative measures to keep BNSF data, systems and network secure

• Providing security architecture requirements to stakeholders and service providers to ensure compliance with Enterprise Security architecture standards and best practices

• Conducting security vulnerability assessments and penetration tests of systems/networks

• Assuming a key role as a senior member of the security emergency response team supporting our security alert plans

• Providing expert analysis, troubleshooting and forensic investigation of security anomalies which may require periodic, on-call, after hours support, including weekends and holidays

QUALIFICATIONS:

Bachelor of Science degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Electrical Engineering or equivalent work experience is required.

Previous experience in information security is preferred including experience with:

• Firewall management

• IP networking and computer security

• Encryption (data at rest and data in transit)

• Information security risk / vulnerability assessments

• Intrusion detection and prevention

• Securing external access to web applications

• Vulnerability and penetration testing

• VPN/SSL implementation

• Project Management

If you are interested in the below position please forward your profile to preethib@usmsystems(dot)com or call me on 703 468 0398.