Senior Firewall Policy Engineer with AI Ops (Onsite)

AT&T; Alpharetta (GA); On-site; USD 140,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

AT&T is seeking a Principal Cybersecurity Engineer (Firewall Policy Implementation) to join our global security team in a hands-on engineering role. You will own firewall policy operations, optimize rules, and drive AI-enabled automation in a large-scale enterprise environment.

This on-site role requires 7+ years in firewall policy management, PAN-OS expertise, and strong change-control discipline, with collaboration across IT, network, and security teams to deliver secure, reliable outcomes.

Qualifications

• 7+ years of firewall policy experience in production environments.
• Strong operational discipline: change control, validation, rollback planning.
• Experience in large-scale, enterprise security operations.

Responsibilities

• Implement and optimize firewall rules to reduce risk and harden defenses.
• Own firewall policy lifecycle, tuning, and decommissioning.
• Perform controlled configuration changes with proper validation and documentation.
• Troubleshoot security policy issues and outages with cross-team collaboration.
• Identify automation opportunities using AI tools to improve efficiency.

Skills

Firewall Policy Management

PAN-OS / Palo Alto

AI/ML in security

Automation scripting (Python)

Change management

Tools

Panorama

GitHub Copilot

CLI scripting

Job description

AT&T is seeking a Principal Cybersecurity Engineer (Firewall Policy Implementation) to join our global security team in a hands-on engineering role. You will own firewall policy operations, optimize rules, and drive AI-enabled automation in a large-scale enterprise environment.

This on-site role requires 7+ years in firewall policy management, PAN-OS expertise, and strong change-control discipline, with collaboration across IT, network, and security teams to deliver secure, reliable outcomes.