Lead Firewall Engineer in St. Petersburg, FL at honor foundations

Date Posted: 12/15/2024

Job Snapshot

Job Description

This position follows our hybrid-friendly schedule, so you get the best of both worlds - flexibility and collaboration. In office days will be 2-3 per week averaging 10-12 days per month in one of the following Corporate Office locations: St. Petersburg, FL; Southfield, MI; Memphis, TN; Denver, CO.

Job Summary:
The Lead Firewall Engineer is responsible for managing, designing, and improving RJs enterprise network. He or she will assist network architects with design and implementation of firewall network technologies. This role is responsible for senior level firewall engineering implementation and providing guiding principles and technical leadership to peer engineers, proactively taking technology project delivery from 0 to 100% with little to no supervision. General duties include leading the buildout of network security solutions and driving innovation for implementation of new modern technologies in the enterprise network. Partners with management and peer engineers to drive infrastructure modernization projects to completion and provides Tier3 technical support using extensive expertise to take on work assignments the team is engaged in. Strong people skills and the ability to balance/prioritize between multiple tasks and projects are essential. This position involves routing and switching and network firewall implementation projects for both on-prem and cloud infrastructure.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities:
Design, improve and innovate:

Monitor, document and offer proactive support:

Lead, collaborate and coach:

Job Requirements

Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities:
Knowledge of Panorama policy management (NGFW PanOS)
Knowledge of Prisma Access (preferred %26ndash Cortex, DataLake, CloudIdentityEngine)
Experience with deployment from 0 to 100% of enterprise firewall clusters
Experience with routing and switching enterprise technologies (CCNA level required, CCNP level desirable
Knowledge of DNS Geolocation (LTM, GTM, APM, ASM/Cloud WAF).
Knowledge of DDOS mitigation technologies ( Layer 3, Layer4 and Layer 7 - WAF).
Automation/scripting experience (Python, Ansible)
Network security protocols, architecture and design principles intrusion detection, prevention systems, secure socket layer (SSL) protocols, virtual private networks (VPNs),
Network performance optimization, capacity planning and load balancing.
Familiarity with the following monitoring platforms: Microsoft SevOne, SolarWinds, DataDog, Splunk)

Education/Previous Experience:
Typically requires a Bachelor's degree 5 plus years of relevant experience. May have one or more technical or business-related certifications.

Licenses/Certifications:
NPPCNSE,JNCIP strongly preffered
CCNP desirable, Arista ACE L3 desirable
Security and control certifications desirable (CISSP, CISM, CISA, CRISC).

At Raymond James our associates use five guiding behaviors (Develop, Collaborate, Decide, Deliver, Improve) to deliver on the firm%26#39s core values of client-first, integrity, independence and a conservative, long-term view.
We expect our associates at all levels to:
Grow professionally and inspire others to do the same
Work with and through others to achieve desired outcomes
Make prompt, pragmatic choices and act with the client in mind
Take ownership and hold themselves and others accountable for delivering results that matter
Contribute to the continuous evolution of the firm