Firewall Engineer

5iron is a privately held, rapidly growing company, providing best-in‑class managed cybersecurity operations in the financial sector. 5iron redefines industry expectations by taking an active role in the protection of financial organization, delivering eyes on 24x7x365 cybersecurity operations to effectively minimize cyber risk inside these organizations. Bringing years of information security experience with financial institutions, our managed security operations protect critical network infrastructure from the growing number of threats to banks and the financial services industry. 5irons Security Operations Center (SOC) is in Franklin, Tennessee and all security operations are run from this facility. 5iron does not use a Virtual SOC in which Security Analysts work from home or another remote location which can slow response times and affect client security. Our goal is more than notificationOur goal is remediation and resolution. We are currently looking for a Firewall Engineer to join our growing SOC team.

RESPONSIBILITIES

Hands on experience with one or more of the following Next-Gen firewalls: Barracuda, Juniper, Cisco, Check Point, Fortinet or Palo Alto. Extensive experience implementing and maintaining firewalls and staying updated on any released security vulnerabilities and how they affect the network. Extensive experience performing on-going optimization of the network security devices to ensure adequate capacity, availability, and scalability. Experience designing, implementing, troubleshooting, and documenting network security infrastructures and related systems. Demonstrated ability to participate in the Change Management process including creating new change requests, reviewing submitted change forms, peer reviewing submitted change requests, implementing firewall changes and peer reviewing firewall changes. Expertise in modifying firewall rule sets, changing policies, whitelisting, content filtering, and troubleshooting issues by studying network traffic flows, locking down applications, and troubleshooting firewalls, routers, and switches. In-depth knowledge of layer 4-7 app aware firewalls. Experience establishing and modifying site-to-site VPNs. Ability to manage threat protection, URL blocking, IOC feeds, routers, and switches. Experience performing monthly firewall health checks. Experience developing detailed build and test plans for implementing firewalls.

REQUIREMENTS

Bachelors Degree in information security (or similar field) with a minimum of five (5) years cybersecurity experience desired or a minimum of seven (7) years cybersecurity experience. Minimum five (5) years of Information Security Firewall Architecture experience. Extensive knowledge of data security practices and systems; NIST, ISO, etc. Ability to interact with customers, vendors, and project managers on a regular basis to support implementations, change management and troubleshooting. Experience working in a leading ticketing system and prioritizing workflow based on criticality and urgency. Excellent communications and teamwork skills.

ADDITIONAL

This is an onsite position in Franklin, TN. Travel is not required. Five Iron offers premium benefits that are intended to support our people and their families. These include: Company-paid health, dental and vision insurance plans for the employee Up to a 4% 401k company match that vests immediately, its yours to keep Generous paid time off and 10 holidays per year Paid time off to vote and volunteer Paid time off on your birthday because its your special day Up to $100 per month for your internet and cell phone service Team building events Employee-selected lunch served every Friday #J-18808-Ljbffr Five Iron