Firewall Engineer (Palo Alto)

Firewall Engineer (Palo Alto)

Location: Plano, TX/ Mclean, VA/ Richmond, VA Duration: 9 months assignment with the possibility of extension

Client: Ampcus / Capital One

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 GlobalProtect 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:

3-5 years in network security engineering

Minimum or 2+ years of hands 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