Firewall Engineer (Palo Alto)

Title: Firewall Engineer (Palo Alto) Location: Plano, TX / Mclean, VA / Richmond, VA (Onsite) Position: Contract

Firewall Engineer (Palo Alto) Responsibilities:
Dynamic Routing configuration and troubleshooting
Packet level review and analysis for troubleshooting and design
Rule design
NAT rule design
Firewall log and flow reviews using an observability platform observability dashboard creation a plus
Intrusion Detection & Prevention
Customer firewall rule add/modifications/changes
Noncompliant rule remediation
Firewall rule migration
Subject matter expert (SME) with a solid network security background and hands on experience with Global Protect VPN [Prisma Access cloud and NGFWs]
Experience in building, migrating & supporting enterprise VPN platforms and systems for Desktop (macOS, Windows) & Mobile (iOS, Android), and/or SASE based solutions by test driving proof of concept and deployment of security solutions

Preferred Skills:
Strong exp in network security engineering
Strong exp on Palo Alto FW engineering
Specialized Palo Alto engineer with hands on management, design, implementation, and deployment experience
Enterprise experience designing, implementing, and troubleshooting VPN technologies (Palo Alto, f5 BIGIP APM)
Practical knowledge on IPSec tunnels and encryption, VPCs, VRF, TCP/IP, OSI model, IPv6, cloud based network security architecture, VPN deployment strategies & migrations, data traffic manipulation, Proxy, Load Balancers, DNS / Route53
At least one Palo Alto certification
Python / Shell scripting
Ansible
Terraform