VP/AVP, Senior Firewall Engineer, Cloud Engineering Services, Technology & Operations

Business Function Group Technology and Operations (T&O) enables and empowers the bank with an efficient, nimble and resilient infrastructure through a strategic focus on productivity, quality & control, technology, people capability and innovation. In Group T&O, we manage the majority of the Bank's operational processes and inspire to delight our business partners through our multiple banking delivery channels. Responsibilities

• Working as part of the Firewall Team, this Firewall Team Lead team will be required to lead a team of 5-6 firewall engineers and provide guidance for the team to develop both technical and soft skill.
• Provide the firewall strategy for the bank and ensure secure, stable, and scalable design.
• Automate the firewall policy management and streamline the existing process.
• Assists Level 2/3 Support Engineers during problem determination and resolution and be the escalation point of all firewall issue.
• Evaluate and define the global standard of firewall hardware and software version to standardise the global infrastructure.
• Manage the firewall vendors to design, architect and operate the firewall infrastructure to provide stable production environment.
• Coordinate with information security governance team to align IT infrastructure with established standards.
• Ensures system compliance with all established information security policies
• Performs technical assessment of any non-well defined or complex firewall change requests prior to implementation.
• Create firewall reporting by using Algosec in regular base to clean-up the unused objects.
• Performs regular review, edit and create of firewall Rulebase and recommend necessary optimization actions.
• Planning and recommending overall improvements in firewall management including the capacity planning to avoid any potential issue.
• Advanced troubleshooting production problems with RCA and fault diagnosis
• Implements changes to firewall infrastructure hardware to correct errors or enhance functionality
• Develops processes for improving operational efficiencies, as well as identifies/implements automation tools for existing manual processes.
• Prepares technical reports, memoranda, and instructional manuals as documentation of network design and operational requirements.
• Ready to work shifts including public holidays

• Good experience in firewall operations, in lead or management capacity. Hands-on on firewall management and strong leadership role in managing firewall infrastructure of banking critical environment.
• Bachelor's degree in engineering or science
• Certification: CCSA, CCSE, CCIE, PCNSE, NSE4 and ITIL Foundation (Preferred but not mandatory)
• Have a solid understanding of Checkpoint Firewalls, Palo Alto and FortiGate firewalls technologies.
• Having strong understanding of the L3 routing on the firewall is preferred, like OSPF and BGP.
• Strong verbal, written, interpersonal communications skills.
• Ability to work independently or as a team player.