Cyber Network Engineer

General Dynamics Information Technology

2d • Remote

About The Position

Cyber Network Security Engineer Advance your career while impacting our national security in cyber as a Cyber Network Security Engineer. Here, technologists have many paths to grow a meaningful career supporting cyber missions and operations across the federal government. GDIT is looking for a Cyber Network Security Engineer, who can build, design, tests, and deploy perimeter security systems to include firewalls and proxy devices. In this role, the Cyber Network Security Engineer will be responsible for firewall rule changes by process that includes analysis of the request, security recommendation, change control documentation and obtaining approval, and implementation. MEANINGFUL WORK AND PERSONAL IMPACT As a Cyber Network Security Engineer the work you do on behalf of GDIT will be impactful to the company’s mission. You will play a crucial role in securing the network infrastructure that is used to perform energy related missions local and abroad. Duties and responsibilities include:

Requirements

• 10+ years, IT network engineering support experience (Tier II, Tier III, network infrastructure implementation and maintenance)
• IPv6 knowledge and implementation experience
• 3+years supporting cloud environments such as AWS and Azure with a security specialty and focus.
• Competence with Linux and firewall command line interfaces.
• Expert experience in one or more of the following security devices: Palo Alto Firewalls, Cisco ASA/Firepower, Checkpoint, NetScreen
• Experience supporting the configuration and maintenance of Firewall/DMZ infrastructure including Network and Application Firewall Packet Filtering technologies
• Intermediate Linux experience with command line and understanding of basic scripting
• Firsthand experience in developing and providing quality assurance review of engineering change orders relating to the replacement or enhancement of perimeter security hardware and software
• Experienced with performing root cause analysis, risk identification and risk mitigation
• Experienced with network monitoring and log analysis applications such as Splunk Enterprise and Splunk Enterprise Security, Nagios, Zenoss, NeuralStar or other similar monitoring tools
• Clearance level: Q level clearance or equivalent
• US citizenship required
• To be onsite as emergencies happen such as failed systems that cannot be addressed remotely.
• Rotating on call work.
• Technical Training, Certification(s) or Bachelor's degree in a computer science/computer engineering related discipline, or 10 years of work experience.

Nice To Haves

• Certifications: CISSP, CCNP Security, PCNSE, Network+, Security+, CEH, ITIL (r) Foundation certification, AWS Security, AWS Advanced Networking, Linux scripting and programming in Python and or Pearl greatly desired.
• Interpersonal skills include the ability to collaborate effectively, self-awareness, and excellent written and oral communications.

Responsibilities

• Manage and support all Network security hardware, software, cloud security services and logging analytics and analysis efforts and team members.
• Collaborate with existing CyberOps staff members and other OCIO support staff as well as federal management.
• Drive key outcomes and direct how the team innovates, resolves challenges, etc.
• Utilize all CyberOps, Network and log analytics and analysis tools to keep the customer secure. Examples would be Splunk, Palo Alto Networks, Nagios, Syslog tools, skills or technologies in the role.
• Plan, document, and implement hardware and software refresh and upgrade of Palo Alto perimeter devices.
• Conduct periodic firewall rule set review and auditing for standards and use.
• Create and maintain standard operating procedures and guides for new and/or existing perimeter hardware and software.
• Attend weekly teleconferences, onsite meetings, and participate in working groups, as related to constant changing security environment.

Benefits

• Our benefits package for all US-based employees includes a variety of medical plan options, some with Health Savings Accounts, dental plan options, a vision plan, and a 401(k) plan offering the ability to contribute both pre and post-tax dollars up to the IRS annual limits and receive a company match.
• To encourage work/life balance, GDIT offers employees full flex work weeks where possible and a variety of paid time off plans, including vacation, sick and personal time, holidays, paid parental, military, bereavement and jury duty leave.
• GDIT typically provides new employees with 15 days of paid leave per calendar year to be used for vacations, personal business, and illness and an additional 10 paid holidays per year.
• Paid leave and paid holidays are prorated based on the employee’s date of hire.
• The GDIT Paid Family Leave program provides a total of up to 160 hours of paid leave in a rolling 12 month period for eligible employees.
• To ensure our employees are able to protect their income, other offerings such as short and long-term disability benefits, life, accidental death and dismemberment, personal accident, critical illness and business travel and accident insurance are provided or available.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level