The FireEye Subject Matter Expert will act as a critical member of the firewall team for a major government agency and must demonstrate experience supporting large enterprise networking structure. The consultant will work with the customer's technical teams and leadership to build relationships and find ways to leverage and maximize technical investment recommendations.
Duties and Responsibilities:
- Experience in Active Directory, VMware, CISCO and Juniper networks
- Support the contractor team with Agency's CDM infrastructure program, in all FireEye actions, capabilities, and processes
- Rapidly gain an understanding of the customer's networks, network configurations, processes, policies, and procedures
- Develop and support of the FireEye monitoring platform
- Maintaining current FireEye installation
- Perform real-time packet capture and historic analysis to inspect and store the inbound and outbound web traffic along with inspection of external emails for malicious content
- Perform product updates, upgrades and apply patches to the application and the underlying platform
- Working with different service owners to logically group individual data points into actionable categories
- Proactively identifying gaps within the monitoring solution and remediating those gaps
- Working with service owners to filter irrelevant data and alerts from various FireEye platforms
- Manage and work in a Virtual and Physical operating system and services environment such as VMWare and Red Hat platform and Dell Physical Server infrastructure
- Perform daily system checks, review and respond to events reflected in various management tools, perform server patch management
- Conduct system audit reviews and perform maintenance functions as required to ensure system health
- Demonstrate strong oral and written communication skills, with the ability to communicate technical topics to management and non-technical audiences, as well as interface with the customer on a daily basis
Basic Qualifications:
- Bachelor's degree and 7 years of relative experience, Master's degree and 5 years of relative experience, or 9 years of relative experience in an IT field in lieu of a degree
- 3 + years of experience with design, architect and maintain FireEye hardware and software
- 3 + years of experience with FireEye CM, NX, AX, EX, and PX
- Certifications: CISSP or Cisco Certified Internetworking Associate (CCNA)
- Ability to obtain a position of public trust
Preferred Qualifications:
- Network certifications or other professional security certifications in addition to CISSP or CCNA.
- Certification such as Splunk Administrator, CEH, Cofense or other technical certification showing network and firewall experience
- Deep technical knowledge and understanding of FireEye devices, understanding of FireEye processes and procedures
- General understanding and knowledge of networking tools, such as Splunk, etc.
- Has actively acted as the point person for critical issues that affect the server and storage infrastructure for the network monitoring platform
- Experience/understanding of SNMP protocol, ability to perform MIB analysis and configure SNMP trap parsing and SNMP table polling
- Experience with instrument monitoring to detect network performance problems
- Possess a working knowledge of Cisco IOS and be able to perform configuration changes on network devices
- EMC Storage, SMARTS Administration
- Active Cisco Certified Network Associate (CCNA)