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RTX · 2 months ago

Cloud Firewall Engineer

UT6: 4 Farm Springs 4 Farm Springs Road, Farmington, CT, 06032 USA

Full-time

Hybrid

Senior Level, Lead/Staff

$101K/yr - $203K/yr

8+ years exp

RTX Corporation is an Aerospace and Defense company that provides advanced systems and services for commercial, military and government customers worldwide. They are seeking a Cloud Firewall Engineer to engage with internal business units to evaluate network security issues, propose design options, and implement new cloud firewall deployments.

AerospaceManufacturingSecuritySensorTelecommunications

No H1B

U.S. Citizen Only

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)

Qualification

Palo Alto firewall administrationCheckpoint firewall administrationAWS VPC architectureAzure architectureBGP routingDNS/DHCP/IP managementCybersecurity knowledgeTroubleshooting skillsBasic scripting languagesProject leadership

Required

A University Degree or equivalent experience and minimum 8 years prior relevant experience, or An Advanced Degree in a related field and minimum 5 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

Proficient on Palo Alto and Checkpoint cloud firewall administration with at least 8 years of firewall management experience and a strong networking background

Preferred

Prior experience supporting acquisition and divestiture activities as it relates to network security

Expertise in DNS, DHCP and IP Address Management systems

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

Company

RTX

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RTX is comprised of three market-leading businesses – Collins Aerospace, Pratt & Whitney and Raytheon – working as one to answer the biggest questions and solve the hardest problems in aerospace and defense.

Founded in 1922

Arlington, Virginia, USA

10001+ employees