Job Details

This range is provided by PTR Global. Your actual pay will be based on your skills and experience — talk with your recruiter to learn more.

Base pay range

$65.00/hr - $70.00/hr

Client Restrictions: US Citizens only, W2 only.

Mostly Remote with occasional in office- need Locals to Austin area- will go onsite 2-4 times per month.

Long term contract position.

Job Title

Lead Technical Recruiter at PTR Global - Pinnacle Technical Resources - A Pinnacle Group Company

Position Overview

This is an engineer role, and the candidate must be able to demonstrate the ability to install, manage, and maintain Firewalls in both on-premise and cloud environments. Demonstrated experience in supporting Palo Alto and Fortinet Firewalls as an engineer is REQUIRED. Holding one or more Technical Security Certifications is REQUIRED.

Responsibilities

• Provision firewalls and WAFs for customer.
• Develop and maintain rule sets for firewalls.
• Help determine tactics, techniques, and procedures (TTPs) for firewalls.
• Recommend computing environment vulnerability corrections.
• Conduct research, analysis, and correlation across a wide variety of all source data sets (indications and warnings).
• Perform patch management for MSSP Security tools and customer's security tools.
• Provide cybersecurity recommendations to leadership based on significant threats and vulnerabilities.
• Ability to work with provided security policies to design and implement network and security rules and configurations across various security platforms.
• Characterize and analyze network traffic to identify anomalous activity and potential threats to network resources.
• Document and escalate incidents that may cause ongoing and immediate impact to the environment.
• Create and document procedures and work instructions for use by the Security Engineering staff (Tier 2 through Tier 3).
• Train and mentor other engineers as needed.

Preferred Experience and Attributes

• Ability to configure, deploy, and troubleshoot Palo Alto and Fortigate Firewall Platforms.
• Ability to configure, deploy, and troubleshoot Imperva and Fortigate Web Application Firewall Platforms.
• Working knowledge of Palo Alto Panorama or FortiNet FortiManager.
• Strong Knowledge of information technology (IT) security principles and methods.
• Knowledge of incident response and handling methodologies.
• Knowledge of network security architecture concepts.

Requirements

• Must be able to pass a CJIS background check process and other background checks to comply with customers contracts.
• Complete basic safety and security training to meet the customer requirements.
• Ability to work a rotating shift and on-call schedule as required.
• CompTIA Security + certification or equivalent/higher.
• Eight (8) years of Network IT implementation and/or Network design experience, with five (5) years as part of a Perimeter Security team.

Compensation and Benefits

The specific compensation for this position will be determined by a number of factors, including the scope, complexity and location of the role as well as the cost of labor in the market; the skills, education, training, credentials and experience of the candidate; and other conditions of employment. Our full-time consultants have access to benefits including medical, dental, vision and 401K contributions as well as any other PTO, sick leave, and other benefits mandated by applicable state or localities where you reside or work.

Seniority level

Mid-Senior level

Employment type

Contract

Job function

Information Technology

Industries

IT Services and IT Consulting