Senior Firewall Policy Engineer - Onsite in Charlotte

AT&T; Middletown (NJ); On-site; USD 150,000 - 210,000; Full time

Job summary

AT&T in Charlotte, NC seeks a Principal Cybersecurity Engineer (Firewall Policy Implementation) to own firewall policy operations in a large-scale enterprise. This hands-on role emphasizes deep firewall expertise, policy lifecycle management, and cross-team collaboration for security outcomes.

Ideal candidates have 7+ years delivering firewall policies in production, with strong change control discipline and experience in IT security tools, cloud, and automation.

Qualifications

• This is a principal position requiring direct, recent experience in firewall policy implementation and validation.
• 7+ years operating and maintaining firewall policies in production environments.
• Strong change control, documentation, rollback planning, and post-change verification.
• Proven troubleshooting of network/security and firewall issues under time pressure.
• Experience in large-scale, multi-stakeholder enterprise environments.

Responsibilities

• Optimize and implement firewall rules to mitigate risk and protect data.
• Own day-to-day firewall policy operations including tuning and cleanups.
• Safely apply policy changes within defined change processes with validation.
• Troubleshoot outages and security incidents with cross-functional teams.
• Leverage AI/automation tools to reduce manual work and improve accuracy.
• Perform risk assessments and develop mitigation strategies for complex issues.
• Provide technical support for security rollouts and cross-team projects.

Skills

Firewall policies

Palo Alto

PAN-OS

AI/ML in security

Change management

Incident troubleshooting

Network security

Panorama

Tools

Panorama

GitHub Copilot

Claude

OpenAI Codex

Job description

AT&T in Charlotte, NC seeks a Principal Cybersecurity Engineer (Firewall Policy Implementation) to own firewall policy operations in a large-scale enterprise. This hands-on role emphasizes deep firewall expertise, policy lifecycle management, and cross-team collaboration for security outcomes.

Ideal candidates have 7+ years delivering firewall policies in production, with strong change control discipline and experience in IT security tools, cloud, and automation.