Firewall & Network Security Engineer / Administrator

Candidates MUST be local

Must have 5+ years of Palo Alto Networks experience.

Primary Responsibilities

• Administer and support Palo Alto PA-1420, PA-460, and PA-450 firewalls.
• Administer and maintain Palo Alto Panorama including device groups, templates, policies, and log management.
• Design, deploy, configure, and validate new Palo Alto firewall clusters and High Availability (HA) pairs.
• Lead firewall refresh, migration, cutover, and implementation projects.
• Configure and maintain security policies, NAT, VPNs, routing, zones, and security profiles.
• Perform troubleshooting, upgrades, health monitoring, and performance tuning.
• Conduct Best Practice Assessments (BPA), rule reviews, and security optimization activities.
• Support Threat Prevention, WildFire, DNS Security, SSL Decryption, App-ID, and User-ID initiatives.
• Participate in CAB and change management processes; develop implementation and rollback plans.
• Maintain technical documentation, diagrams, standards, and operational procedures.
• SOC analysis and support experience is preferred but not required.

Required Qualifications

• 5+ years of enterprise firewall administration experience.
• 5+ years of Palo Alto Networks experience.
• Hands-on experience with Panorama.
• Strong knowledge of TCP/IP, VLANs, BGP, OSPF, NAT, DNS, VPNs, and network security.
• Experience supporting and troubleshooting HA deployments.
• Strong customer-facing communication skills.

Preferred Qualifications

• PCNSA or PCNSE certification.
• Security+, CISSP, or CCNP Security.
• Experience supporting managed security services.
• Experience with SIEM, EDR, security automation, or Agentic SOC technologies.
• Threat hunting and incident response experience preferred.

Pay: $45.00 - $55.00 per hour

Experience:

• enterprise firewall administration : 7 years (Preferred)
• Palo Alto Networks: 6 years (Preferred)

Work Location: In person