Firewall Engineer

Firewall Engineer

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Job Description

We have an opportunity to join our key Defence account, Centralised Processing (CP) as a Firewall Engineer. Based in our Canberra facility and working within the Security Architecture and Engineering team, your role will be representing security requirements and best practices across a range of disciplines including Project Pipelines, Network Operations, Systems Engineering and Architecture.

Duties include:

• Perform firewall engineering functions including design, implementation and optimisation in a large enterprise environment.
• Provide in-depth analysis on existing firewalls and security architecture and make recommendations for system and environment enhancements.
• Analyse, develop, enhance, secure and test complex firewall designs.
• Troubleshoot firewall performance issues. Analyse network traffic and provides capacity planning solutions.
• Develop and revise network security technical documentation.
• Represent established security standards and policies to the broader firewall management group
• Work alongside a dedicated firewall architecture function to drive the strategic direction of network security capabilities.
• With the assistance of security architecture and engineering, interpret complex security policies and design new firewall standard operating procedures.
• Maintain technical expertise in all areas of firewall operation, technology, advancements and new security concepts.

Qualifications

About You

You are an experienced firewall engineer within a complex, regulated environment and have a good knowledge and interest in a broad range of systems and enterprise security architecture. You will also have the following:

• Understanding of Network Protocols commonly used in a large Enterprise and how they relate to Firewall configuration (you should be able to explain the difference between NFS, DNS, IPSec and RPC at a protocol level and how that relates to Firewall Policy design).
• Solid understanding of modern firewalls including Palo Alto and Cisco firewalls or equivalent firewall technology
• Demonstrated experience within network security or firewall engineering
• 5+ years of network security engineering experience in large scale deployments

Due to the nature of the role, the successful candidate must hold a government NV-2 security clearance; or NV1 with eligibility to upgrade to NV2.

Additional Information

Successful candidates will be required to be

Australian Citizensand be able to obtain and maintain an Australian Government Security Clearance.

Additional Information

At Leidos you’ll enjoy 12 weekspaid parental leave as a primary carer, flexible work practices, discounted health insurance, novated leasing and more. We have a strong track record of internal promotion and career transitions.

Push your boundaries within a supportive culture and redefine what’s possible for our customers and your career.