Firewall Operations Engineer — Palo Alto NGFW Expert

Hyra; United States; Remote; USD 110,000 - 150,000; Full time

Job summary

Hyra is seeking an experienced Firewall OPS Engineer to join our Plano, TX on-site team. You will manage Palo Alto Networks firewalls, security policies, and VPNs within an enterprise network security operations environment.

You will work with Panorama, Prisma Access, and cloud integrations (AWS/Azure) to ensure high availability and threat prevention. Strong collaboration with network teams and incident response is expected.

Qualifications

• Experienced Network Security Engineer with strong Palo Alto firewall administration and security policy management.
• Hands-on with NGFWs including App-ID, User-ID, Content-ID, NAT, routing, and access control.
• Proficient with VPN technologies, high availability deployments, and Panorama for centralized firewall management.
• Strong understanding of SSL/TLS, TCP/UDP, HTTP, DNS, and related network security protocols.

Responsibilities

• Serve as primary support lead for security environment, managing customer devices and end-to-end security services.
• Configure and install security infrastructure devices; maintain and adjust security policies.
• Report security analysis and monitoring findings; test security levels using industry-standard criteria.
• Identify threats, vulnerabilities, and take appropriate actions; advise on network performance and security changes.

Skills

Firewall admin

Security policy mgmt

Threat prevention

VPN technologies

NGFW management

Panorama

App-ID

User-ID

Network security operations

Tools

Panorama

Prisma Access

AWS

Azure

Cloud NGFW

Splunk

Sentinel

Job description

Hyra is seeking an experienced Firewall OPS Engineer to join our Plano, TX on-site team. You will manage Palo Alto Networks firewalls, security policies, and VPNs within an enterprise network security operations environment.

You will work with Panorama, Prisma Access, and cloud integrations (AWS/Azure) to ensure high availability and threat prevention. Strong collaboration with network teams and incident response is expected.