Firewall Engineer

Heitmeyer Consulting is seeking a Firewall Engineering for a contract opportunity with one of our financial services clients. This is a senior-level technical role responsible for designing, implementing, and maintaining secure, scalable, and resilient network infrastructure across on-premises and cloud environments. This role emphasizes deep expertise in firewall technologies, network segmentation, and Azure networking services to support enterprise-grade systems and regulatory compliance.

• Design, implement, and maintain secure, scalable, and resilient network infrastructure across on-premises and cloud environments.
• Apply deep expertise in firewall technologies, network segmentation, and Azure networking services to support enterprise-grade systems and regulatory compliance.

• Deep experience with Palo Alto firewalls and comfortable navigating Palo Alto environments.
• Understand how the firewall integrates into the infrastructure and routes traffic; strong network engineering background.
• Some experience with Cisco is a plus.
• Routing and switching background; F5 load balancing is a plus.
• Azure experience is a plus; most work is in Azure infrastructure and Palo Alto deployments are largely in the Azure cloud, so familiarity with Azure networking language is important.
• Azure firewall is not a major part of the role, but experience with it would be beneficial.