Network Specialist (Firewall)
New York, NY, United States
Optima Global Solutions Inc.is a valuable IT Services and Solution provider that customers, employees, and stakeholders feel proud to be associated with. Optima's Intelligent Automation Solutions leverage robotic process automation, intelligent data capture, and business process management best practices to streamline operations. Our IT Services practice provides organizations with highly personalized, comprehensive, U.S. based recruiting services supported by our internal onsite team of subject matter experts.
Currently, we are hiring for the following position;
Firewall Specialist SP3
Our client, The NYC Office of Technology and Innovation has been tasked with recruiting a Specialist 3, Firewall Specialist. Who will be required to 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 OTI Infrastructure Management leadership, its engineering and architecture teams, operations team, and datacenter teams
This is a HYBRID need and for the first few months, the candidate will need to be on site Monday- Friday.
Normal business hours are Monday-Friday 9 AM to 5 PM not including a 1 hour mandatory unpaid meal break (35 hours/week)
Estimated contract duration is 12 months with possibility to extend.
SCOPE OF SERVICES: Firewalls and Network - Next-Gen Firewall, Routing and Defensive Security, DNS, DDOS: design, implementation, and configuration.
TASKS
1. Participate in design meetings and reviews from a security and network perspective on assigned priority projects.
2. Propose networking security architecture to meet the business requirements and while adhering to OTI's best practices guidelines.
3. Collaborate with OTI's Architect teams for developing operable solutions for Citywide requirements.
4. Complete all requirements for installing new network or firewall devices.
5. Follow OTI process for new devices provisioning of integrated systems.
6. Configure ports, configure firewalls, and apply the base templates configurations, integrate the appliances into production network.
7. Develop and validate base configurations for the new firewall.
8. Follow OTI's established procedures to successfully replace firewalls and firewall rules.
MANDATORY SKILLS/EXPERIENCE:
Note: Candidates who do not have the mandatory skills will not be considered.
1. Minimum 12 years of experience in the field of networking, network security and firewalls
2. Must have hands-on experience with Palo Alto
3. Deep understanding and experience of DNS, NTP, BGP and other critical infrastructure protocols.
4. Must understand BGP, MPLS, OSPF, IS-IS routing protocols in a large environment.
5. Deep understanding on routing, load balancing and networking infrastructure.
DESIRABLE SKILLS/EXPERIENCE:
1. Hands on experience in Cisco and Palo Alto firewall technology
2. Additional experience in the field of load balancing.
3. Good project management skills
4. Ability to simultaneously work on multiple projects
Interested candidates, please apply online with a detailed resume and contact information.
Thank you.