Senior Firewall Architect – Engineer
Location
Texas
Posted
8 days ago
Salary
$95.1K - $135.8K / year
Bachelor DegreeEnglishAWSAzureCloudFirewalls
Job Description
• Responsible for the architecture, design, engineering, and operational lifecycle of enterprise firewall platforms across on‑premises data centers and public cloud environments.
• Serve as the technical authority for Firewall technologies, ensuring secure, scalable, and resilient network security architectures.
• Partner with the CISO office to lead the end to end architecture of firewall solutions across on prem, AWS, and Azure environments.
• Define reference architectures, design patterns, and standards for Palo Alto firewalls.
• Ensure firewall architectures support high availability, resiliency, segmentation, and zero trust principles.
• Engineer and assist Managed Services vendors to deploy and maintain Palo Alto Networks firewalls.
• Design and implement security policy frameworks, NAT strategies, routing, and traffic flows across hybrid environments.
• Lead major firewall initiatives, including new deployments and upgrades.
• Architect firewall solutions integrated with AWS and Azure.
Job Requirements
- Deep, hands‑on experience with Palo Alto Networks firewalls (physical, virtual, and Panorama)
- Strong expertise designing firewall architectures in on‑premises data centers
- Proven experience architecting and engineering firewall solutions in AWS and Azure
- Advanced understanding of network segmentation and security zoning
- Routing, NAT, and traffic inspection architectures
- High availability and disaster recovery designs
- Experience operating firewall platforms at enterprise scale
Benefits
- generous, flexible vacation policy
- educational assistance
- 401(k) employer match
- comprehensive health benefits
- leadership and technical development academies