Title: Firewall Administrator (Palo Alto)
Location: Washington, DC NW (Onsite | SCIF)
Clearance: Active Top Secret, SCI eligibility
About this role:
- Rackner is seeking a Firewall Administrator with strong Palo Alto skills to join our team.
- They will manage and administer firewall solutions within a highly secure SCIF environment.
- Responsible for ensuring the secure and efficient operation of firewall systems to protect classified government information and networks.
We are looking for experience with:
- Working as a Firewall Administrator, specifically with Palo Alto technologies.
- Conducting firewall configurations, rule sets, and network security best practices.
- Working with government cybersecurity policies, including NIST, FISMA, and DoD security frameworks.
- Occasional after-hours work may be required for maintenance and upgrades.
- Monitoring tools and incident management in secure environments.
- Troubleshooting and analytical skills, with the ability to quickly resolve complex security issues.
- Strong documentation skills to create and maintain firewall configuration and operational procedures.
What will make you successful:
- Administer and manage Palo Alto firewalls, including deployment, configuration, and maintenance.
- Monitor, analyze, and troubleshoot firewall traffic to identify and mitigate security threats.
- Implement and maintain firewall rules, policies, and configurations based on security best practices and organizational requirements.
- Collaborate with security teams to ensure compliance with government security standards and protocols.
- Perform regular security assessments and audits to ensure firewalls are properly configured and functioning.
- Provide documentation and support for network architecture and firewall configurations.
- Respond to security incidents and conduct root cause analysis to prevent future occurrences.
- Maintain up-to-date knowledge of emerging security threats and technologies.
- Work onsite in a Sensitive Compartmented Information Facility (SCIF) to ensure the secure handling of classified information.
Nice to Have:
- Palo Alto certifications such as Palo Alto Networks Certified Network Security Administrator (PCNSA) or Palo Alto Networks Certified Network Security Engineer (PCNSE).
- Operate with other security technologies such as VPNs, IDS/IPS, and SIEM solutions.
- Handling of automation tools and scripting for firewall management.
Who We Are:
- Rackner is a software consultancy that builds cloud-native solutions for startups, enterprises, and the public sector.
- We are an energetic, growing consultancy with a passion for solving big problems for both startups and enterprises.
- We enable digital transformation for large organizations through the newest in distributed technologies as we are laser focused on end-to-end application development, DevSecOps, AI/ML and systems architecture and our methodology focuses on cloud-first and cost-effective innovation.
- Our customers hail from a diverse, ever growing list of industries.
Benefits/Additional Info:
Rackner embraces and promotes employee development and training and covers the cost of certifications relevant to a position and the technologies/services provided. Fitness/Gym membership eligibility, weekly pay schedule and employee swag, snacks & events are offered as well!
- 401K with 100% matching up to 6%
- Highly competitive PTO
- Great health insurance with large network of providers
- Medical/Dental/Vision
- Life Insurance, and short & long term disability
- Industry-Leading Weekly Pay Schedule
- Home office & equipment plan
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Top Skills
What We Do
Rackner builds cutting-edge solutions that apply DevSecOps and the power of AI in the datacenter, public and private clouds, and edge, leveraging the future of compute capability and technologies like Kubernetes (k8s) and WebAssembly (WASM). We're a member of the Cloud Native Computing Foundation and a Kubernetes Certified Service Provider - as well as a partner to the major public cloud companies.
Our customers include hypergrowth startups and federal agencies, both Civilian and Defense.
Core Competencies
- DevSecOps
- Edge Computing
- AI/ML
- Cloud-Native and Hybrid-Cloud development
- Web and Mobile Applications Development (Microservices)
