Network Firewall Administrator
A position exists in the EU network support team for a new team member to support maintain both VPN connectivity and the firewall rulebase on the European appliances.
The role
Currently there are greater than 150 IPSEC tunnels. This number continues to increase. The successful candidate will be responsible for
Liaising with the customer
Designing the VPN connectivity solution
Implementing the VPN build
Fault finding both new and existing VPNs
Staging any firewall rules associated with the VPN build
The individual may also be required to take part in firewall reviews from time to time.
Migrating VPN tunnels from Checkpoint VPN platform to Cisco ASR based platform
The applicate should have the following
A thorough knowledge of IPSEC, and how tunnels are established
A thorough knowledge of TCP/IP …
a) the 3-way handshake
b) the differences between TCP and UDP
c) TCP / UDP well known ports
Knowledge of the encryption algorithms, i.e. AES, 3DES
Other component involved in the establishment of an IPSEC tunnel such as the hashing algorithm (SHA) and Diffie-Hellman
An appreciation of best practices in terms of network security
Checkpoint and Cisco VPN knowledge is essential
Checkpoint rulebase administration
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