Senior Firewall Engineer

Hiring Manager: Ray De Los Reyes

Role details

Senior Firewall Engineer
Bill rate: $85.75/hr

18-24 months contract (possibility of conversion- no visa candidate)

• Locations: Las Colinas, Charlotte (Boulevard only), Chandler.

• Primary tech stack:
Palo Alto firewalls, Fortinet (great to have), some Cisco routing/switching

• Work expectations:
Flex hours, some nights/weekends, on‑call rotation.

• Key responsibilities:
Firewall management, policy changes, troubleshooting, remote access support, packet captures, Splunk log analysis, and some automation work.

• Candidate requirements:
• 4+ years InfoSec engineering
• 2+ years network security engineering
• 2+ years firewall configuration/troubleshooting
• Panorama experience (device groups, templates)
• Strong Palo Alto experience is the top priority

The team also clarified that visa candidates should not be submitted because conversion may be possible, and sponsorship is not supported.

Detailed Summary

Required Skills

The must‑have qualifications include:

• 4+ years InfoSec engineering
• 2+ years hands‑on network security
• 2+ years firewall configuration/troubleshooting
• 2+ years security policy design
• Panorama experience

“Must have qualification, 4 plus years… 2 plus years… configuring, managing, and troubleshooting firewall…”

Panorama is required at a functional level.

“They need to have a basic understanding of… device group… template… those are going to be some of the technical interview questions.”

Responsibilities

• Manage Palo Alto and Fortinet firewalls
• Support Global Protect for 240,000 users
• Perform packet captures, log analysis, incident management
• Handle policy changes and routing adjustments
• Participate in migrations (Palo Alto → Fortinet)
Check logs, do some packet captures
There will be some firewall migrations… from Palo Alto to Fortinet.

Work Hours & Flexibility

The role requires after‑hours and weekend work with flex time, not overtime.

“There are some flex time hours… not overtime.”
“It could lead into… 2 o’clock in the morning at times”

 Nice‑to‑Haves

• Splunk
• ThousandEyes
• Python / automation
• VS Code

Splunk is really good to have.
Any Python would be great to have