Senior Firewall Policy Engineer – Onsite, Charlotte

AT&T

City of Middletown (NY)

On-site

USD 150,000 - 190,000

Full time

6 days ago

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Job summary

AT&T is seeking a Principal Cybersecurity Engineer to join our global cybersecurity team in person. This hands-on, deeply technical role focuses on firewall policy operations, optimization, and automation at enterprise scale.

You will work onsite five days a week in the Charlotte, NC hub, with potential consideration for other strong matches; expects 7+ years in firewall policies and PAN-OS expertise, and strong collaboration across IT and security teams.

Qualifications

7+ years’ experience operating and maintaining Firewall Policies (Rule Sets).
Extensive hands-on experience managing enterprise Firewall Policy in production environments.
Strong operational discipline: change control validation, closely following documented processes, rollback planning, and post-change verification.
Proven ability to troubleshoot Network/Security and Firewall Policy issues under time pressure.
Experience in large-scale, complex environments with multiple stakeholders.

Responsibilities

Optimize and implement firewall rules to mitigate risk and protect data.
Own day-to-day firewall policy operations, tuning, cleanup, and hardware decommissions.
Safely apply approved firewall policy changes with validation and post-change verification.
Troubleshoot connectivity and security policy issues and outages with cross-team collaboration.
Drive automation and AI opportunities to reduce manual work and improve accuracy.