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Firewall Administrator (TS/SCI)-Reston, VA

Required Degree: Bachelor's Degree

Required Experience: 6+ Years

Work Location: Reston, VA

Required Clearance: TS/SCI

Description:

Own your career as a Cyber System Signature / Firewall Administrator. With the rapidly evolving landscape of cyber threats, you'll play a pivotal role in fortifying our defenses using state-of-the-art technologies. Your expertise will be instrumental in safeguarding our clients' critical missions and staying ahead of emerging threats.

Responsibilities:

• Monitor day-to-day operations of the sensors (Suricata, Palo Alto, and ArcSight) located at supporting customer locations.

• Perform Enterprise Defense Countermeasure (DC) activities and coordination with other government agencies to record and prepare incident reports and analysis methodology and results.

• Monitor and analyze signature alerts from Intrusion Detection/Prevention Systems (IDS/IPS) for false positives.

• Provide technical enforcement of organizational security policies.

• Provide "tune-or-drop" recommendations towards the team's Signature Lifecycle Review procedure.

• Provide insight to Detection and Response teams on signature functionality and provide signature tuning as needed.

• Communicate with customers and teammates clearly and concisely.

• Maintain current knowledge of relevant technology as assigned.

• Participate in special projects as required.

• Position is day shift but may require evening, weekend or shift work (depending on operational tempo).

Requirements:

• Experience authoring Snort signatures.

• Experience authoring Yara rules.

• Experience with Perl Compatible Regular Expressions (PCRE)

• IAT II Certification

• CSSP Infrastructure Support

Preferred Skills:

• Experience in intrusion detection and prevention systems.

• Proficient in network security technologies and protocols.

• Dashboarding in Splunk.

• Palo Alto Certification Next-Generation Firewall