Senior Cybersecurity Engineer

• Design, implement, configure, and maintain enterprise firewall solutions in high-availability production environments.
• Develop, manage, and optimize firewall security policies, ACLs, NAT configurations, VPN tunnels, and network segmentation.
• Perform firewall rule reviews, policy cleanup, and change management while ensuring compliance with organizational security requirements.
• Support implementation of Zero Trust Architecture, micro-segmentation, and secure network access solutions.
• Troubleshoot complex network connectivity and security issues across firewalls, routers, switches, load balancers, and VPN technologies.
• Monitor firewall health, performance, logging, and security events while responding to incidents and vulnerabilities.
• Conduct firewall security assessments, risk analyses, and configuration audits in accordance with NIST, DISA STIGs, and agency security requirements.
• Collaborate with cloud, infrastructure, and application teams to securely integrate enterprise systems and cloud environments.
• Develop and maintain network diagrams, security documentation, standard operating procedures, and implementation guides.
• Support Authority to Operate (ATO) activities, vulnerability remediation, continuous monitoring, and cybersecurity compliance initiatives.

• Bachelor's degree in Cybersecurity, Computer Science, Information Technology, or a related field. Relevant experience may be substituted for a degree.
• 7+ years of experience administering enterprise firewall and network security technologies.
• Hands-on experience with one or more enterprise firewall platforms, including Palo Alto, Cisco Firepower/ASA, Fortinet FortiGate, Check Point, or Juniper SRX.
• Strong understanding of TCP/IP, routing, switching, VLANs, VPNs (IPSec/SSL), NAT, ACLs, DNS, and network protocols.
• Experience implementing network segmentation and Zero Trust security architectures.
• Experience supporting security compliance frameworks such as NIST 800-53, RMF, DISA STIGs, or CIS Benchmarks.

• CISSP, PCNSE, CCNP Security, Fortinet NSE, CCIE Security, or equivalent cybersecurity certification.
• Experience securing Azure Government, AWS GovCloud, or hybrid cloud environments.
• Experience with IDS/IPS, web application firewalls (WAF), Secure Web Gateways, and network access control solutions.
• Experience with SIEM platforms such as Splunk, Microsoft Sentinel, or QRadar.
• Familiarity with automation using PowerShell, Python, Ansible, or REST APIs for firewall administration.
• Experience supporting federal civilian or Department of Defense environments.

• A minimum of an active Secret security clearance is required

Salary Range
Minimum $150,000 - Maximum $185,000 annually