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SECURITYFOCUS JOBS - NEW OPPORTUNITY
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JOB DESCRIPTION
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Position: Security Engineer
Location: Brooklyn (Metrotech), New York, United States
Type: Permanent F/T
Closing Date: 2006-03-26
Title: Firewall Engineer - JVN #1611 (two positions)
Salary Range to $90,000 plus Excellent Comprehensive Benefits Package
Work Location: Brooklyn, NY (Metrotech)
NYC's Department of Information Technology and Telecommunications (DoITT)
enables the City to meet the demands for operational excellence through the
effective use of technology.
Why join DoITT? A government agency run like a Fortune 500 company; 1000+
employees with a growth rate of 200%+ in the last 2+ years; state-of-the-art
technologies and real opportunity for professional growth and advancement.
JOB DESCRIPTION:
DoITT follows a multi-vendor firewall strategy in our environment, which
consists of over 30 firewalls protecting the City’s internal and external
data networks and support an extensive VPN user community, consisting of IPSEC
and SSL clients and site-to-site IPSEC connections. We are the first line of
defense for an enterprise network that consists of over 50 City agencies and a
primary responder in the case of a cyber attack on the City’s resources.
Responsibilities include:
- Make changes to firewall rule sets;
- Define and troubleshoot site-to-site VPN connections;
- Support IPSEC client and SSL VPN changes and problems;
- Perform other related tasks as necessary to the operation of the team;
- Network packets tracing tools will be used to debug and analyze network
traffic flow.
* 11 AM – 7 PM, Monday through Friday and 1 PM – 9 PM, Monday through
Friday. Overtime may be required as needed to meet operational needs and
employees may be required to be on call to respond to emergencies. *
JOB REQUIREMENTS
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PREFERRED SKILLS:
- A minimum of two years hands-on experience working with Cisco PIX and/or
Checkpoint NG firewalls;
- Experience with Cisco FWSM blades and with Nokia appliances is desirable;
- Familiarity with the Checkpoint VPN Edge architecture, Cisco VMS, Firemon
firewall auditing, and Nokia Horizon Manager.
- Experience should also include support for site-to-site VPN connections in a
Checkpoint environment.
- Unix experience is a definite plus, as is operational experience with DNS,
sendmail and/or Juniper SSL VPN appliances.
CIVIL SERVICE QUALIFICATION REQUIREMENTS:
1.A Master's Degree in computer science from an accredited college and three
years of progressively more responsible, full-time, satisfactory experience
using mainframe, mini- or micro-computer technology in computer applications
programming, systems programming, computer systems development, data
telecommunications, data base administration, or planning of data processing,
at least 18 months of this experience must have been in an administrative,
managerial or executive capacity in the areas of computer applications
programming, systems programming, computer systems development, data
telecommunications, data base administration, or planning of data processing or
in the supervision of staff performing these duties, -OR-
2. A Bachelor's Degree from an accredited college and four years of experience
as described above -OR-
3. A four-year high school diploma or its educational equivalent and six years
of experience as described above, -OR-
Education and experience equivalent to the above. However, all candidates must
have at least a high school diploma or its equivalent and must possess at least
three years experience as described above, including the 18 months of
administrative, managerial, executive or supervisory experience as described
above.
NOTE: The following types of experience are NOT acceptable; superficial use of
preprogrammed software without complex programming, design, implementation or
management of the product; use of word processing packages; use of a hand held
calculator; primarily the entering or updating of data in a system; the
operation of data processing hardware or consoles.
The City of New York is an Equal Opportunity Employer
CONTACT
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TO APPLY, PLEASE SUBMIT RESUME INDICATING JVN #1611 TO:
Department of Information Technology and Telecommunications (DoITT)
Recruitment Office, 75 Park Place - 9th Floor, New York, NY, 10007
-OR-
E-mail to sysrecruit@doitt.nyc.gov (indicate Title in Subject line)
The City of New York is an Equal Opportunity Employer
NYC Department of Information Technology
Mark Hermansen
Technical Recruiter
SYSrecruit@doitt.nyc.gov
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