Firewall OPS Engineer-Palo Alto

Q1 Technologies, Inc; 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

Job Description Job Description Role -Firewall OPS Engineer - Palo Alto
Fulltime
Plano, TX (Onsite only no Remote)

Job Description

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-ID, User-ID, Content-ID, 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.