Hybrid Firewall Ops Engineer - Active Secret Clearance

Veterans Enterprise Technology Solutions Inc; Clarksville (VA); On-site; USD 142,000 - 174,000; Full time

Job summary

Staffing Pros, a division of VETS-inc, is recruiting for a full-time Firewall Operations Engineer. The role is on-site in Springfield, VA (hybrid ~3 days onsite) with Beltsville, MD as an alternative location. Active Secret clearance required, Top Secret possible.

Shift Tue-Sat 3:00PM-11:30PM; training is Mon-Fri 7:00AM-3:30PM for ~6-8 weeks. Responsibilities include monitoring and troubleshooting perimeter devices (Palo Alto/ Panorama, FortiGate, ESA, A10, proxies), configuring rules,

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree with 5+ years (or Master's with 3+ years) of IT/security experience.
• Deep hands-on experience with Palo Alto, Panorama, and firewall policy management.
• 3–5 years IT customer support (Tier I/II) experience.
• US citizen with active interim Secret clearance or ability to obtain Top Secret.
• Strong TCP/IP, networking, proxy, and packet filtering knowledge.

Responsibilities

• Provides Tier 2 support in monitoring, management, and troubleshooting of perimeter devices (firewalls, proxies, MTA).
• Monitor Service Now for FWOPS incidents and service requests.
• Implement firewall rules and policies; troubleshoot Palo Alto, FortiGate, ESA, A10, proxies, and URL filtering.
• Escalate issues to Tier 3; track lifecycle of problems.
• Perform maintenance: reboots, software upgrades, health checks, and document SOPs.
• Collaborate across agencies to implement network changes related to perimeter security.
• Support CIRT with block requests for IPs, websites, and emails; update Visio diagrams.
• Publish outage notifications; maintain shift logs for leadership.

Skills

CLI experience

TCP/IP networking

Network monitoring

US citizenship

Education

Bachelor's degree

Master's degree

Tools

Palo Alto Firewalls & Panorama

NeuralStar

A10 Load Balancer

FortiGate

Azure Firewall

Cisco ESA

Cloudflare

Job description

Staffing Pros, a division of VETS-inc, is recruiting for a full-time Firewall Operations Engineer. The role is on-site in Springfield, VA (hybrid ~3 days onsite) with Beltsville, MD as an alternative location. Active Secret clearance required, Top Secret possible.

Shift Tue-Sat 3:00PM-11:30PM; training is Mon-Fri 7:00AM-3:30PM for ~6-8 weeks. Responsibilities include monitoring and troubleshooting perimeter devices (Palo Alto/ Panorama, FortiGate, ESA, A10, proxies), configuring rules,