Senior Network Security Engineer: Palo Alto Firewall & Policy Expert

HireTalent; Town of Elma (NY); On-site; USD 120,000 - 155,000; Full time

Job summary

Talentify in New York region seeks an experienced Network Security Engineer to design and maintain secure firewall policies, perform hardening, and translate business requests into robust security controls.

The role requires hands-on PAN-OS expertise with Palo Alto firewalls, strong knowledge of policy management, and collaboration with stakeholders to ensure security requirements are implemented correctly.

Qualifications

• 5–8+ years of experience in network security engineering.
• Deep hands-on experience with Palo Alto Networks firewalls (PAN-OS).
• Strong understanding of firewall rulebases, NAT policies, zones, and security profiles.
• Experience with firewall hardening, audit remediation, and compliance frameworks.
• Ability to translate business requirements into technical security controls.

Responsibilities

• Design, implement, and maintain secure firewall policies aligned with business and security requirements.
• Perform firewall hardening activities, including rulebase optimisation, risk reduction, and compliance alignment.
• Translate incoming project and business requests into well-defined firewall rules and security policies.
• Collaborate with project managers, network engineers, and security teams to ensure requirements are implemented correctly.
• Conduct impact analysis and risk assessments for proposed firewall changes.
• Manage firewall policy changes through change control processes; monitor and troubleshoot firewall issues for high availability and performance.
• Maintain documentation for firewall rules, configurations, and design standards.

Skills

Analytical skills

Problem solving

Stakeholder coordination

Structured project experience

Independent working

Tools

Palo Alto PAN-OS

Tufin

Job description

Talentify in New York region seeks an experienced Network Security Engineer to design and maintain secure firewall policies, perform hardening, and translate business requests into robust security controls.

The role requires hands-on PAN-OS expertise with Palo Alto firewalls, strong knowledge of policy management, and collaboration with stakeholders to ensure security requirements are implemented correctly.