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Will be expected to support the network engineering and global threat team(s) with complex troubleshooting of issues as required.\r\nYou will have experience of working in high impact, mission critical environments where service matters and exceeding expectations is the norm.\r\nRequired Skills:\r\nExperience with Check Point’s API architecture to support automation and orchestration.\r\nHas awareness of recent Checkpoint code levels and able to leverage modern features to solve problems\r\nHas experience with firewall policy automation or leveraging Infrastructure as Code for deployments (Ansible/Terraform)\r\nHas experience with Checkpoint IPS, AV and URL Filtering for threat management and troubleshooting\r\nDescribe the Check Point Firewall infrastructure. Create and modify Check Point Rule Base objects. Configuring new and maintaining Security Gateway Clusters.\r\nUnderstand Smart Console features, functions, and tools. 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Create, delete, and modify Security Groups\r\nUnderstand the basics of the Dual-Site environment\r\nDescribe how the Gaia Command Line Interface (CLI) supports the configuration of MHO appliances\r\nPerform diagnostic troubleshooting using the CLI\r\nEvaluate how traffic flows through a Maestro environment\r\nDemonstrate how to use traffic monitoring commands\r\nUnderstands Checkpoint consumption of identity service for use in security rules\r\nUnderstands, implement, and troubleshoot Checkpoint identity service\r\nAdvanced to expert capability of scripting in Python 2.7.\r\nPreferred/ Recommended Skills:\r\nDescribe the Check Point Multi-Domain Security Management solution and its benefits.\r\nUnderstand the components of MDSM and how they work together to help administrators manage multiple network security environments within a single management framework.\r\nUnderstand how to install and configure the Multi-Domain Security Management environment.\r\nDescribe how to implement Management High Availability within the MDSM environment.\r\nUnderstand how to manage and view multi-Domain activity logs in Smart Console.","company":"Software Technology","rawCompany":"software technology","city":"Washington","state":"DC","isRemote":false,"isActive":false,"createdAt":"2026-08-09T01:25:15.647Z","occupations":[{"code":"15-1299.08","title":"Computer Systems Engineers/Architects","slug":"computer-systems-engineers-architects"},{"code":"15-1244.00","title":"Network and Computer Systems Administrators","slug":"network-and-computer-systems-administrators"},{"code":"15-1241.00","title":"Computer Network Architects","slug":"computer-network-architects"}],"industries":[{"code":"541512","title":"Computer Systems Design Services","slug":"computer-systems-design-services"},{"code":"541519","title":"Other Computer Related Services","slug":"other-computer-related-services"},{"code":"541513","title":"Computer Facilities Management Services","slug":"computer-facilities-management-services"}],"jobPosting":{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"JobPosting","title":"Firewall Engineer","description":"Checkpoint Firewall EngineerReporting to the Network Application Manager, the Checkpoint Firewall Engineer is seen as a technical expert in networking security (firewalls), API usage and integration, and threat management. 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