Posted July 21, 2026
Firewall Engineer- Active Secret Clearance Required
Veterans Enterprise Technology Solutions Inc
Clarksville, Virginia, United States 23927
Full Time
Reference: 285955051
Firewall Engineer- Active Secret Clearance Required
Springfield, Virginia
ID: j-2477
JOB TYPE:
Direct Hire
REMOTE STATUS:
On-Site
COMPENSATION:
$174000 / yr
Staffing Pros, a division of VETS Inc., is recruiting for a full-time Firewall Engineer located in Springfield, VA for a hybrid position. An Active Secret Clearance is required for this role.
Responsibilities:
- Will engage in attacks against the infrastructure, develop security tools, analyze access patterns and hacking behavior, audit source code for vulnerabilities, work with the team to improve best practices and deploy attack detection and prevention tools.
- Identify significant, actual, and potential cyber security problems, trends and weaknesses and recommend specific modifications and solutions to reduce information systems security risks.
- Implement security solutions to integrate into existing network environment. Establish requirements and make recommendations on the appropriate infrastructure protection tools, methods and technologies.
- Review established policies, write policy guidance and standards. Establish technical or procedural enforcements for pertinent policies.
- Review proposed new systems, networks and software designs for potential security risks and resolve integration security issues across disciplines. Define the scope and level of detail for applicable security plans and policies.
- Investigate and respond rapidly to security incidents. Acquire, analyze and interpret packet captures and logs to accomplish rapid and accurate incident response
Required Qualifications:
- Firewall engineering experience to include design and configuration of firewall solutions
- Experience with Palo Alto/ForcePoint firewall installation, configuration, and administration
- Experience pulling firewall logs and performing analysis on the effectiveness of firewall solutions
- Understanding of cloud security solutions and associated firewall engineering
- Secret security clearance with ability to obtain a Top Secret
- Experience delivering and deploying firewall engineering services in a cloud environment
- Experience with Microsoft Cloud Access Security
- Experience delivering services to federal client
- 5-10 years hands on experience in the IT security space
- Must be a U.S. citizen
Preferred Qualifications:
- Bachelor’s degree preferred
- CCNA
- CCIE
- Network+
- Networking Experience in cloud environments
- Microsoft Express Route
- Zero Trust Networking
- SD-WAN
EEO Statement
Staffing Pros a division of VETS-inc is an Equal Opportunity Employer/Protected Veterans/Individuals with Disabilities.
The contractor will not discharge or in any other manner discriminate against employees or applicants because they have inquired about, discussed, or disclosed their own pay or the pay of another employee or applicant. However, employees who have access to the compensation information of other employees or applicants as a part of their essential job functions cannot disclose the pay of other employees or applicants to individuals who do not otherwise have access to compensation information, unless the disclosure is (a) in response to a formal complaint or charge, (b) in furtherance of an investigation, proceeding, hearing, or action, including an investigation conducted by the employer, or (c) consistent with the contractor’s legal duty to furnish information.
The contractor will not discharge or in any other manner discriminate against employees or applicants because they have inquired about, discussed, or disclosed their own pay or the pay of another employee or applicant. However, employees who have access to the compensation information of other employees or applicants as a part of their essential job functions cannot disclose the pay of other employees or applicants to individuals who do not otherwise have access to compensation information, unless the disclosure is (a) in response to a formal complaint or charge, (b) in furtherance of an investigation, proceeding, hearing, or action, including an investigation conducted by the employer, or (c) consistent with the contractor’s legal duty to furnish information.
Equal employment opportunity, including veterans and individuals with disabilities.
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