Firewall Engineer

at  HCLTech

Cybersecurity – Firewall engineer (Palo Alto, Terraform) – Level 2

Responsibilities

• Manage day-to-day operations of Palo alto firewall in Azure, and GCP cloud environments.
• Design, implement and test effective firewall security policies using Terraform.
• Analyze network traffic patterns and security logs to identify potential threats.
• Troubleshoot and resolve firewall related connectivity issues.
• Collaborate with infrastructure teams and Cloud platform specialist to ensure optimal security posture.
• Stay up-to-date on the latest Palo Alto firewall features, security best practices and Terraform functionalities
• Document firewall configurations, policies and procedures.
• Participate in security audits and incident response activities.

Requirements

• Must have 6+ years’ experience with managing perimeter security solutions including firewall, VPN and proxy.
• Should be able to manage and troubleshoot Palo alto firewalls in large and complex environment
• Should have working experience on Palo alto Firewalls & Terraform Platform.
• Proven experience with NGFW rule creation, Management, and troubleshooting, including application control, threat prevention and URL filtering.
• Strong understanding of network security concepts, including ACLs, NAT, VPN and application security principles.
• Must have exposure in defining SLAs
• Good hands on exposure on troubleshooting, change management & incident management.
• Must have expertise in defining Standard Operating Procedure
• Must have expertise in Remote Infrastructure management for network and information security
• Good experience of Native cloud security on Azure / AWS /GCP

Primary Skill Set: Firewall – Palo Alto

Secondary Skill set: Terraform

• Communicate and manage client needs and expectations
• Should have B.Tech. / MCA degree
• Minimum 6 + years of relevant Cyber Security experience
• Works well in a team environment and independently
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills
• Excellent listening, verbal and technical writing skills
• Palo alto technical certification
• Experience with scripting languages (e.g., Python, Bash).
• Should be comfortable working in 24*7 environments.

Job Type: Full-time
Pay: $85,000.00-$95,000.00 per yea

• Manage day-to-day operations of Palo alto firewall in Azure, and GCP cloud environments.
• Design, implement and test effective firewall security policies using Terraform.
• Analyze network traffic patterns and security logs to identify potential threats.
• Troubleshoot and resolve firewall related connectivity issues.
• Collaborate with infrastructure teams and Cloud platform specialist to ensure optimal security posture.
• Stay up-to-date on the latest Palo Alto firewall features, security best practices and Terraform functionalities
• Document firewall configurations, policies and procedures.
• Participate in security audits and incident response activities