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UNIVERSAL Technologies, LLC Firewall Specialist in Brooklyn, New York
UNIVERSAL Technologies is seeking a Firewall Specialist with extensive experience in Palo Alto and Cisco Firewalls for a hybrid position in Brooklyn, NY. Candidates must be able to work on site Monday-Friday for the first few months then 3 days per week after.
Position: The Firewall Specialist will assist with the design and deployment of firewall security solutions deployed in large, complex networked environments. The candidate must be highly specialized to provide guidance at various stages of planning and implementing secure design, processes, and resilient solutions. This resource will have significant interaction with the client’s Infrastructure Management leadership, its engineering and architecture teams, operations team, and datacenter teams.
WHO WE ARE:
UNIVERSAL Technologies, LLC is a Women-Owned (M/WBE) IT solutions and consulting company focused at delivering enterprise systems that significantly improve our clients IT performance. We work across the IT spectrum including Development, Business/Systems/Data Analysis, Project Management, Cyber Security, Network Engineering, and High-Level System Architecture.
The pride in the services we provide and the accessibility and flexibility we provide to employees are what make Universal Technologies stand out from the rest! We hope to propel your IT career to the next level and excite our employees with new and challenging projects.
WHAT WE OFFER:
Our W2 employees can expect the following benefits:
Competitive pay
Health/Dental Insurance
Group Life Insurance
401K
HSA/FSA
Pre-Tax Transportation Program
Generous Paid Time Off/Holiday Policy
MANDATORY SKILLS/EXPERIENCE:
Minimum 12 years of experience in the field of networking, network security and firewalls.
Must have hands-on experience configuring, analyzing, troubleshooting and managing Palo Alto.
Deep understanding and experience of DNS, NTP, BGP and other critical infrastructure protocols.
Must understand BGP, MPLS, OSPF, IS-IS routing protocols in a large environment.
Deep understanding of routing, load balancing and networking infrastructure.
Hands on experience in Cisco and Palo Alto firewall technology.
Additional experience in the field of load balancing.
Good project management skills.
Ability to simultaneously work on multiple projects.
SCOPE OF SERVICES:
Be responsible for Firewalls and Network including Next-Gen Firewall, Routing and Defensive Security, DNS, and DDOS design, implementation, and configuration.
Participate in design meetings and reviews from a security and network perspective on assigned priority projects.
Propose networking security architecture to meet the business requirements and while adhering to the client’s best practices guidelines.
Collaborate with the client’s Architect teams for developing operable solutions for Citywide requirements.
Complete all requirements for installing new network or firewall devices.
Follow the client’s process for new devices provisioning of integrated systems.
Configure ports, configure firewalls, apply the base templates configurations, integrate the appliances into production network.
Develop and validate base configurations for the new firewall.
Follow the client’s established procedures to successfully replace firewalls and firewall rules.
UNIVERSAL Technologies is an Equal Opportunity Employer.
