Team Lead Firewall Administrator

UNITED STATES CITIZENSHIP REQUIRED

SECRET CLEARANCE REQUIRED

OFF-SITE (REMOTE)

Salary is dependent upon the candidates skills, experience, certifications and education as it pertains to this specific position  

Salary Range: 
High end of the salary range is considered for those who exceed Required Qualifications

Soft Tech offers competitive BENEFITS in the areas of: Medical, Dental, Vision, 401K, Short Term Disability, Long Term Disability, Life Insurance, PTO, AND Paid Holidays

Soft Tech Consulting is seeking a highly motivated, self-directed individual to fill the role of a Team Lead Firewall Administrator The selected individual will join a collaborative team environment where they will provide overall supervision for vendor employees to include, but not limited to, planning and managing the project professionally, ensuring that work is scheduled properly to obtain maximum use of resources; ensuring that accurate and timely reports are provided. Key to the success of this position is the successful delivery of projects and effective communication to all levels of staff for reporting project status.

• Provide overall supervision for vendor employees to include, but not limited to, planning and managing the project professionally, ensuring that work is scheduled properly to obtain maximum use of resources; ensuring that accurate and timely reports are provided.
• Resolve problems, allocate resources, manage personnel, and monitor operation performance taking direction from the government to ensure complete satisfaction.
• Works under general supervision, developing the requirements of a product from inception to conclusion.
• Develops required specifications for simple to moderately complex problems.
• Coordinates with the Vendor PM, CORs, and government user representatives to ensure accurate solutions and user satisfaction on technical matters.

• Minimum Five (5) years relevant experience
• Ability to formulate Security policy and manage Security configuration.
• Working knowledge of Firewall.
• Working knowledge and understanding of industry standard network environments to include firewall and security hardware/software.
• Working knowledge of Information Assurance Best Practices.
• In depth knowledge of LAN and WAN operations.
• Knowledge of industry standard Incident Ticket Tracking systems for inputting incident tickets and creating work orders.
  Comprehensive knowledge of DoD and DLA security regulations, guidelines and policies, to include, but not limited to, IA standards.
• Working knowledge of the installation, configuration and day-to-day sustainment of network equipment, to include but not limited to: firewalls and other network appliances.
• Strong written and communication skills
• Able to work independently with little to no oversight

Security/Certification Requirements:

• Clearance: Secret
• Computing Environment: CheckPoint Certified Security Associates (CCSA) or CheckPoint Certified Security Expert (CCSE) or CheckPoint Security Master (CCSM)

• Certifications: (any of the following):

  CCNA Security
  CySA+ **
  GICSP
  GSEC
  Security+ CE
  SSCP

Soft Tech Consulting, Inc. is a woman and minority-owned business headquartered in Chantilly, VA. With contracts in both the public and private sectors in the DC metro area and across the country, Soft Tech is an organization made up of highly successful and talented Information Technology professionals offering enterprise class solutions for any size organization at great value. Soft Tech’s mission is to help government organizations design, implement, and maintain mission critical Information Technology solutions. By focusing jointly on our employees and our customers, we are able to achieve our mission by providing each and every one of our customers with continuous quality customer support.
 
Soft Tech Consulting, Inc. is an Equal Opportunity Employer.