Palo Alto Firewall Lead Engineer

Wipro Technologies; Tulsa (OK); On-site; USD 80,000 - 158,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Annual bonus

401K matching

Health insurance

Paid time off

Wellness programs

AI training

Job summary

Wipro Limited in Tulsa, Oklahoma, is seeking a Palo Alto Firewall Lead Engineer to oversee firewall operations, security governance, and strategic initiatives. You will guide operations teams and design resilient security architectures.

The role requires 8+ years of network security experience with Palo Alto Firewalls and Panorama; PCNSE is preferred. You will mentor engineers and drive improvements while coordinating with clients and internal stakeholders.

Qualifications

• 8+ years of network security experience.
• Expert-level knowledge of Palo Alto Firewalls and Panorama.
• Strong knowledge of GlobalProtect, VPN technologies, NAT, URL Filtering, WildFire, and User-ID.
• Experience leading technical teams and customer interactions.
• PCNSE certification preferred.

Responsibilities

• Lead Palo Alto Firewall operations and security governance activities.
• Design and review firewall architectures, segmentation, and security controls.
• Drive resolution of critical incidents and complex technical issues.
• Provide technical leadership during upgrades, migrations, and new deployments.
• Perform security assessments and policy optimization.
• Support customer governance, CAB reviews, and audit requirements.
• Mentor L2/L3 engineers and drive process improvements.
• Identify automation opportunities and operational efficiencies.

Skills

Palo Alto Firewalls

Network security

Panorama

GlobalProtect

VPN

NAT

URL Filtering

WildFire

User-ID

Team leadership

Troubleshooting

Architecture

PCNSE

Job description

Job Title: Palo Alto Firewall Lead Engineer

City: Tulsa

Posting Start Date: 9/10/26

Wipro Limited (NYSE: WIT, BSE: 507685, NSE: WIPRO) is a leading technology services and consulting company focused on building innovative solutions that address clients’ most complex digital transformation needs. Leveraging our holistic portfolio of capabilities in consulting, design, engineering, and operations, we help clients realize their boldest ambitions and build future-ready, sustainable businesses. With over 230,000 employees and business partners across 65 countries, we deliver on the promise of helping our customers, colleagues, and communities thrive in an ever-changing world. For additional information, visit us at www.wipro.com.

Job Description

Role Purpose

The purpose of this role is to design the organisation's computer and network security infrastructure and protect its systems and sensitive information from cyber threats

Do

• Design and develop enterprise cyber security strategy and architecture
• Understand security requirements by evaluating business strategies and conducting system security vulnerability and risk analyses
• Identify risks associated with business processes, operations, information security programs and technology projects
• Identify risks associated with business processes, operations, information security programs and technology projects
• Identify and communicate current and emerging security threats and design security architecture elements to mitigate threats as they emerge
• Identify security design gaps in existing and proposed architectures and recommend changes or enhancements
• Provide product best fit analysis to ensure end to end security covering different faucets of architecture e.g. Layered security, Zoning, Integration aspects, API, Endpoint security, Data security, Compliance and regulations
• Demonstrate experience in doing security assessment against NIST Frameworks, SANS, CIS, etc.
• Provide support during technical deployment, configuration, integration and administration of security technologies
• Demonstrate experience around ITIL or Key process-oriented domains like incident management, configuration management, change management, problem management etc.
• Provide assistance for disaster recovery in the event of any security breaches, attacks, intrusions and unusual, unauthorized or illegal activity
• Provide solution of RFP’s received from clients and ensure overall design assurance
• Develop a direction to manage the portfolio of to-be-solutions including systems, shared infrastructure services, applications, hardware related to cyber risk security in order to better match business outcome objectives
• Analyse technology environment, enterprise specifics, client requirements to set a collaboration design framework/ architecture
• Depending on the client’s need with particular standards and technology stacks create complete RFPs
• Provide technical leadership to the design, development and implementation of custom solutions through thoughtful use of modern technology
• Define and understand current state solutions and identify improvements, options & tradeoffs to define target state solutions
• Clearly articulate and sell architectural targets, recommendations and reusable patterns and accordingly propose investment roadmaps
• Evaluate and recommend solutions to integrate with overall technology ecosystem
• Tracks industry and application trends and relates these to planning current and future IT needs

Stakeholder coordination & audit assistance

• Liaise with stakeholders in relation to cyber security issues and provide timely support and future recommendations
• Provide assistance in maintaining an information security risk register and help with internal and external audits relating to information security
• Support audit of security best practices and implementation of security principles across the organization, to meet business goals along with customer and regulatory requirements
• Assist with the creation, maintenance and delivery of cyber security awareness training to team members and customers
• Provide training to employees on issues such as spam and unwanted or malicious emails

Deliver

No PerformanceParameter Measure 1 Customer centricity Timely security breach solutioning to end users, Internal stakeholders & external customers experience, CSAT, educating and suggesting right control to the customers. 2 Support sales team to create wins % of proposals with Quality Index >7, timely support of the proposals, identifying opportunities/ leads to sell services within/ outside account (lead generation), no. of proposals led

Job Summary

The Palo Alto Firewall Lead Engineer will act as the technical lead for firewall operations, major incidents, security architecture reviews, and strategic initiatives while providing guidance to operations teams.

Key Responsibilities

Lead Palo Alto Firewall operations and security governance activities. Design and review firewall architectures, segmentation, and security controls. Drive resolution of critical incidents and complex technical issues. Provide technical leadership during upgrades, migrations, and new deployments. Perform security assessments and policy optimization. Support customer governance, CAB reviews, and audit requirements. Mentor L2/L3 engineers and drive process improvements. Identify automation opportunities and operational efficiencies.

Required Skills

8+ years of Network Security experience. Expert-level knowledge of Palo Alto Firewalls and Panorama. Strong knowledge of GlobalProtect, VPN technologies, NAT, URL Filtering, WildFire, and User-ID. Experience leading technical teams and customer interactions. Strong troubleshooting and architecture skills. PCNSE certification preferred.

Schedule

Working hours are from 7am to 5pm each weekday.

Benefits

• Full time hires in this position receive an annual bonus, Wipro benefits and 401K matching.
• Wipro's benefits package is designed to help you thrive both personally and professionally.
• From competitive salaries, to parental leave, health insurance, paid time off, and wellness programs, Wipro's comprehensive benefits ensure you have the resources to focus on what matters most.
• AI Academy: Wipro offers a robust curriculum of courses for both basic and advanced, comprehensive training programs on AL/ML and Generative AI-related technologies.
• We are committed to providing our employees with the most relevant skills in the ever evolving AI landscape.

Salary

Mandatory Skills: Palo Alto Networks - Firewalls. Experience: 8-10 Years. The expected compensation for this role ranges from $80,000 to $158,000.

Location

Tulsa, Oklahoma

EEO Statements

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