Senior Palo Alto Firewall Engineer Hybrid Richmond

Hyra; United States; Hybrid; USD 124,000 - 179,000; Full time

Job summary

Tekfortune is seeking a Senior Palo Alto Firewall Engineer to design, implement, and maintain enterprise-grade security solutions. The role focuses on Palo Alto firewalls and Panorama in a large, distributed environment, balancing hands-on work with strategic security architecture input.

The ideal candidate brings deep expertise with firewall rules, NAT, and threat prevention, and can collaborate effectively with security, network, and application teams to ensure robust security posture.

Qualifications

• Hands-on experience with Palo Alto Networks firewalls (physical and virtual).
• Strong proficiency with Panorama for centralized management, templates, device groups, and policy deployment.
• Experience creating, modifying, and optimizing firewall rules, NAT policies, security profiles, and advanced threat prevention configurations.

Responsibilities

• Design, create, and maintain security rules and policies across Palo Alto firewalls to support business and security requirements.
• Configure, deploy, and manage firewalls including interfaces, zones, routing, NAT, VPNs, and security profiles.
• Administer and support Panorama, including templates, device groups, centralized logging.

Skills

Palo Alto

Panorama

Firewall rules

NAT policies

Threat prevention

Network protocols

High availability

Documentation

Communication

Tools

Panorama

Job description

Tekfortune is seeking a Senior Palo Alto Firewall Engineer to design, implement, and maintain enterprise-grade security solutions. The role focuses on Palo Alto firewalls and Panorama in a large, distributed environment, balancing hands-on work with strategic security architecture input.

The ideal candidate brings deep expertise with firewall rules, NAT, and threat prevention, and can collaborate effectively with security, network, and application teams to ensure robust security posture.