Firewall Administrator

Our client, a leading Consulting Firm, is in need of a Firewall Administrator for an initial 12 month contract onsite in Sacramento, CA. The Firewall Administrator will be supporting a Firewall Modernization CR (Change Request). They will work directly with the customers Firewall Engineering team to assist with Firewall rule updates / cleanup, perform pre-change and post-change validations (connectivity/port checks, log review), provide troubleshooting during change windows, update change documentation and implementation notes, maintain ServiceNow tickets and update operational runbooks.

Required Skills:

• 2 - 5 years of experience working as a Firewall Administrator.
• Understanding of basic network fundamentals (IP/subnetting, routing basics, DNS, TCP/UDP).
• Understanding of Firewall concepts (rules/ACLs, NAT, traffic flows).
• Experience using ServiceNow to support trouble tickets.
• Exposure to Splunk and QRadar.
• Basic Linux troubleshooting experience.
• AWS fundamentals (VPC, Security Groups, NACLs).