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Palo Alto Firewall Engineer/SME

Tekfortune Inc.

  • Richmond, VA
  • 6 days ago

    Highlights

    This role requires deep expertise with Palo Alto firewalls and Panorama, along with the ability to create, optimize, and troubleshoot complex security policies in a large, distributed environment. The Senior Firewall Engineer will play a key role in designing, implementing, and maintaining enterprise level network security solutions.

    Numbers & Facts

    LocationRichmond, VA
    IndustryComputer Software
    Company Size20 to 49 employees
    Year Founded2014
    Websitehttp://www.tekfortune.com/

    Description

    Tekfortune is a fast-growing consulting firm specialized in permanent, contract & project-based staffing services for world s leading organizations in a broad range of industries. In this quickly changing economic landscape, virtual recruiting and remote work are critical for the future of work. To support the active project demands and skills gaps, our staffing experts can help you find the best job for you.


    Job Title: Senior Palo Alto Firewall Engineer
    Location: Hybrid Richmond, VA
    Contract Type: Long-term contract with potential to convert to full-time

    Certifications: PCNSE / PCNSA would be preferred but not required.


    Overview
    The Senior Firewall Engineer will play a key role in designing, implementing, and maintaining enterprise level network security solutions. This role requires deep expertise with Palo Alto firewalls and Panorama, along with the ability to create, optimize, and troubleshoot complex security policies in a large, distributed environment. The ideal candidate is a proactive engineer who can balance hands on technical work with strategic input on security architecture and best practices.

    Required Skills & Experience
    • Extensive hands-on experience with Palo Alto Networks firewalls (physical and virtual appliances)
    • Strong proficiency with Panorama for centralized management, templates, device groups, and policy deployment
    • Senior-level experience creating, modifying, and optimizing firewall rules, NAT policies, security profiles, and advanced threat prevention configurations
    • Deep understanding of network protocols, routing, segmentation, and secure network design
    • Experience supporting enterprise-scale firewall environments with high availability and redundancy
    • Ability to troubleshoot complex connectivity and security issues across multiple network layers
    • Familiarity with change management processes, documentation standards, and compliance requirements
    • Strong communication skills for collaborating with security, network, and application teams

    Primary 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




    For more information and other jobs available please contact our recruitment team at

    careers@tekfortune.com

    . To view all the jobs available in the USA and Asia please visit our website at https://www.tekfortune.com/careers/ .

    About Company

    Tekfortune is a software solutions company providing project development and staff augmentation services to companies in various industries including Healthcare, Banking, Finance, Telecommunication and Aviation.

    Tekfortune Inc delivers solutions to a wide variety of organizations of various sizes and industries. Our clients include mid-market to Fortune 1000 companies spanning across industries such as: Insurance, Financial, Pharmaceutical, Manufacturing, Retail and many others.

    In Tekfortune Inc, we are offering selection of services and solutions at very reasonable rates. With years of experience in the placement and recruitment Industry and over time we have acquired the knowledge essential to comprehend the exact need and dependence on customers. Therefore we provide the customers the best and also the brightest candidates for vacancies. Moreover, by understanding the working interest of customers who is able to place them within the companies where they are able to get maximum opportunity for professional growth.

    Tekfortune Inc has a strong emphasis on quality. Its goal would be to achieve client satisfaction by looking into making deliveries satisfaction of customer's business needs. Our ability to quickly identify and effectively employ proven fundamental principles, techniques and resources yields highly desirable results for our clients.

    We understand that each industry and organization share a level of uniqueness that requires a tailored approach in order to deliver specific solutions. Such factors as client culture, industry regulations, organizational maturity, financial health and many more items may impact our approach to delivering client solutions.

    Having served a wide variety of clients has provided Tekfortune the ability to build subject matter expertise across numerous industries. Our industry expertise combined with our specialized knowledge of Business Process Improvement, Requirements Management and Program & Project Management provides a powerful combination and a tremendous value to our clients.

    We are run by a group of industry experts who have decades of experience in delivering custom solutions to our clients.

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