Firewall OPS Engineer – Palo Alto

Role: “Firewall OPS Engineer – Palo Alto”

Location: Plano, TX (Onsite from Day 1)

Position: Fulltime

Job Description:

Interview: Candidate must be willing to attend an in-person interview at a nearby client office.

Exp. required: 8+ Year’s

Must Have Technical/Functional Skills

•             Experienced Network Security Engineer with strong expertise in Palo Alto Networks firewall administration, security policy management, threat prevention, VPN technologies, and enterprise network security operations.

•             Strong understanding of network and security protocols including SSL/TLS, TCP/UDP, HTTP, FTP/SFTP, NTP, Telnet, NFS, SSH, LDAP and DNS etc.

•             Proficient in configuring and managing Next-Generation Firewalls (NGFWs), including App-ID, User-ID, Content-ID, NAT, routing, and access control.

•             Hands-on experience with IPSec VPNs, High Availability (HA) deployments, and Panorama for centralized firewall management.

•             Possesses a solid foundation in networking technologies, including TCP/IP, VLANs, subnetting, routing protocols (BGP, OSPF, RIP), Policy-Based Forwarding (PBF), and ECMP

•             Skilled in cloud security integrations involving Prisma Access, AWS, Azure, and Cloud NGFW deployments.

•             Experienced in security monitoring, log analysis, SIEM integrations (Splunk, Sentinel), and advanced troubleshooting using packet captures, traffic flow analysis, CLI diagnostics, and ACC.

•             Demonstrates strong analytical, problem-solving, and operational skills in securing enterprise environments, optimizing firewall policies, troubleshooting complex network issues, and ensuring high availability and business continuity.

Roles & Responsibilities

•             Serve as primary support lead for security environment by managing customer devices and end-to-end security services, identifying sources of problems, and resolving configuration issues.

•             Deep understanding of Firewall technologies.

•             Configuring and installing security infrastructure devices. 

•             Reporting the security analysis and monitoring findings.

•             Using industry-standard analysis criteria to test the security level of the firm.

•             Responsible to identify threats, vulnerabilities etc & take appropriate actions

•             Consults about network performance, throughput, protocols, network security, and infrastructure technology changes.

•             Defining and maintaining security policies.

•             Occasionally replacing the security system protocol and architecture.