Senior Firewall Engineer – Check Point & Palo Alto

Lime Recruitment; Brisbane; Hybrid; AUD 140,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

Lime Recruitment is partnering with a Queensland government client to recruit a Principal Technical Specialist. The role will lead deployment, upgrade, and management of enterprise firewall replacements (Check Point and Palo Alto) to enable secure health service delivery across Queensland.

You will oversee Check Point deployments, integrate Cisco routing, and coordinate policy optimisation with NSPM tools, while monitoring health with SolarWinds and producing thorough design and change

Qualifications

• Extensive hands-on experience with Check Point firewall technologies.
• Experience with Palo Alto capabilities, SWG, and enterprise policy management.
• Strong background in Cisco routing and switching for firewall integration.

Responsibilities

• Lead deployment, upgrade, and configuration of Check Point firewalls as primary platform.
• Provide expert support for Palo Alto solutions, SWG, and transitioning new capability into operations.
• Integrate firewall solutions using Cisco routing and switching for connectivity and security.
• Assist in policy orchestration and rulebase optimisation via NSPM tools.
• Monitor firewall performance and health using monitoring platforms like SolarWinds.
• Develop and maintain technical documentation including designs, change plans, and test artefacts.

Skills

Check Point

Palo Alto

Policy orchestration

AlgoSec NSPM

SolarWinds monitoring

F5 GTM/LTM/WAF

Cisco routing

WAF

Tools

Check Point SmartConsole

Palo Alto PAN-OS

AlgoSec NSPM

SolarWinds

F5 BIG-IP

Cisco IOS

Job description

Lime Recruitment is partnering with a Queensland government client to recruit a Principal Technical Specialist. The role will lead deployment, upgrade, and management of enterprise firewall replacements (Check Point and Palo Alto) to enable secure health service delivery across Queensland.

You will oversee Check Point deployments, integrate Cisco routing, and coordinate policy optimisation with NSPM tools, while monitoring health with SolarWinds and producing thorough design and change