Firewall / IT Network Engineer
Miami, FL
Temporary
Experienced
Position: Firewall / IT Network Engineer
Location: Miami / Plantation, FL (on-site, Miami-Dade)
Start: ASAP
Experience: 5+ years in network engineering
Reports to: IT Leader
Role overview
The team supports critical infrastructure for the largest clean energy provider in North America. The role combines deep technical skill, technical leadership, and a understanding of regulatory knowledge (NERC CIP is what they will have to learn).
Responsibilities
Location: Miami / Plantation, FL (on-site, Miami-Dade)
Start: ASAP
Experience: 5+ years in network engineering
Reports to: IT Leader
Role overview
The team supports critical infrastructure for the largest clean energy provider in North America. The role combines deep technical skill, technical leadership, and a understanding of regulatory knowledge (NERC CIP is what they will have to learn).
Responsibilities
- Manage enterprise firewall infrastructure, processing 450+ change requests a year with zero network impact
- Oversee implementation and maintenance of 20,000+ firewall rules supporting NextEra Energy and FPL business operations
- Provide technical leadership across multiple data centers and drive continuous improvement
- Mentor and develop team members
- Design, plan, and deploy network infrastructure, and find and fix potential issues before they affect operations
- Perform complex troubleshooting and root cause analysis with advanced diagnostic tools
- Ensure network operations comply with NERC CIP and other regulatory requirements
- Serve as Lead Firewall Engineer on critical IT-OT network segmentation projects
- Perform quarterly Electronic Security Perimeter (CIP-005) compliance assessments across 120+ network segments and stay audit-ready
- Drive automation of firewall rule management, with zero security violations and zero customer impact
- Handle other job-related duties as assigned
- Palo Alto firewalls
- Cisco Nexus (NX-OS), Cisco Catalyst, and IOS
- Ability to multi-task projects, with strong interpersonal and analytical skills
- NERC CIP experience, especially CIP-005 / Electronic Security Perimeter
- Experience with IT-OT segmentation
- Utility, energy, or other regulated critical-infrastructure background
- Firewall automation experience
- Arista switches (plus)
- Prior mentoring or lead experience
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