Firewall Engineer

General information

Requisition # R59234 Locations USA-VT-South Burlington, USA-MD-Camp Springs Posting Date 03/12/2025 Security Clearance Required Public Trust/Suitability Remote Type Onsite Time Type Full time

Description & Requirements

Transform the future of federal services with ManTech! Join a vibrant, energetic team committed to enhancing national security and public services through innovative tech. Since 1968, we’ve partnered with Federal Civilian sectors to deliver impactful solutions. Engage in exciting projects in Digital Transformation, Cybersecurity, IT, Data Analytics and more. Ignite your career and drive change. Your journey starts now—innovate and excel with ManTech!

ManTech seeks a motivated, career and customer-oriented Firewall Engineer in South Burlington, VT or in Camp Springs, MD.

Responsibilities include, but are not limited to:

• Managing Palo Alto firewalls, AWS administration, AlgoSec and Cisco StealthWatch, network security, and overall enterprise network infrastructure support. 
• Proactively address issues, incidents, outages, and security considerations ensuring the stability of network capabilities and provide technical support with existing capabilities and expanded automation.
• Work as escalation point to provide resolutions for network and firewall related issues and work with the Critical Incident Response Team (CIRT) when a firewall / network team presence is requested. 
• Collaborate with vendors and consultants to maintain and improve upon the USCIS systems under the team purview.  Work within a standard change management process to implement firewall / system changes.
• Use Agile tools such as JIRA, Confluence and MS Teams to provide transparency and allow information to be visible in real time and to create a unified backlog ensuring visibility into all areas of work and identifying inter-dependencies between teams.
• Review, update and collaborate with other EIS contract teams and the federal customer to produce network documentation and system detailed designs utilizing applications like Visio.
• Provide network assistance and expert advice in the resolution of incidents elevated to the Critical Incident Response Team (CIRT). The CIRT is responsible to contact and triage the appropriate experts to collectively solve technical issues across the USCIS infrastructure and its applications. Once contacted by the CIRT, the contractor will remain engaged until the issue is declared resolved or the contractor is released by the CIRT.

Minimum Qualifications:

• 5 or more years of enterprise firewall administrative experience.
• Experience with major cloud providers (AWS preferred). 
• Required Administrative Familiarity: Palo Alto Firewalls 

 Preferred Qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, or related field preferred. 
• PCCET, PCNSA, PCNSE, CCNA, CCNP, or equivalent experience
• Familiar with tools including: ServiceNow, Jira, Confluence, GitHub
• Experience with ITIL, DevSecOps and Agile concepts
• Experience supporting Government contracts
• Familiarity use of systems: Panorama AlgoSec , Splunk, Service Now, AppInternals, Stealthwatch, Infoblox, NetCollector, New Relic or Solarwinds

Clearance Requirements:

• Must be a U.S. Citizen with the ability to obtain and maintain a DHS EOD suitability

Physical Requirements:

• Office work, typically sedentary with some movement around the office.

The projected compensation range for this position is $66,800.00-$112,200.00. There are differentiating factors that can impact a final salary/hourly rate, including, but not limited to, Contract Wage Determination, relevant work experience, skills and competencies that align to the specified role, geographic location (For Remote Opportunities), education and certifications as well as Federal Government Contract Labor categories.  In addition, ManTech invests in it’s employees beyond just compensation.  ManTech’s benefits offerings include, dependent upon position, Health Insurance, Life Insurance, Paid Time Off, Holiday Pay, Short Term and Long Term Disability, Retirement and Savings, Learning and Development opportunities, wellness programs as well as other optional benefit elections.

ManTech International Corporation considers all qualified applicants for employment without regard to disability or veteran status or any other status protected under any federal, state, or local law or regulation.
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