Firewall OPS Engineer

Firewall Ops Engineer – Palo Alto

Location:

Plano, TX 75023 (onsite) Duration: W2 Contract Salary Range: $60-70/hr on W2

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-, User-, Content-, 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 Client.
• 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.