Hybrid Senior Cloud Firewall Engineer

at RTX

• Job title: Senior Cloud Firewall Engineer
• Job type: Full Time
• Experience level: Senior
• Salary: $124,000 - $250,000 per year
• Degree requirement: Bachelor's Degree
• Tech skills: AWS, Azure, Cloud, Cyber Security, DNS, Firewalls, Oracle, Perl, Terraform
• Location requirements: Hybrid, Farmington, United States

About the role

• Cloud Firewall Engineer managing Checkpoint and Palo Alto firewall deployments. Collaborating on network security for aerospace and defense solutions with a hybrid work model.

Responsibilities

• Experience with administration and deployment of Checkpoint and Palo Alto firewall, Azure, AWS, and Oracle clouds including all aspects of design, procurement, installation and maintenance
• Network and security architecture and design experience around AWS VPC and DirectConnect supporting high availability and secured AWS zones and VPCs
• Network and security architecture and design experience around Azure and ExpressRoutes
• BGP routing experience with private and public clouds
• Design, implement and support private and public peering for cloud exchanges with best practices in mind for routing and firewalls
• Working knowledge of common and industry standard cloud authentication mechanisms
• Sound project leadership and organizational skills
• Troubleshooting firewall and access issues using a variety of logging and monitoring tools
• Responsible for overall stability of the firewall environment (product lifecycle)

Requirements

• A University Degree or equivalent experience and minimum 10 years prior relevant experience, or An Advanced Degree in a related field and minimum 7 years experience
• Understanding of DNS/DCHP/IP address management systems
• Thorough understanding of firewalls, NAT and packet filtering
• Knowledge of current cyber security threats along with steps and methods for mitigating these risks
• Expertise in basic scripting languages (Perl, VBScript, PowerShell, terraform preferred)
• U.S. citizenship is required, as only U.S. citizens are authorized to access the financial management system due to government contractual requirements

Benefits

• Parental (including paternal) leave
• Flexible work schedules
• Achievement awards
• Educational assistance
• Child/adult backup care
• Medical, dental, vision, life insurance
• Short-term disability, long-term disability
• 401(k) match
• Flexible spending accounts
• Employee assistance program
• Employee Scholar Program
• Paid time off
• Holidays