Gainwell Technologies

Senior Firewall Architect – Engineer

Gainwell Technologies

full-time

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Location Type: Remote

Location: TexasUnited States

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Salary

💰 $95,100 - $135,800 per year

Job Level

About the role

  • 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.

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
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Palo Alto Networks firewallsfirewall architecture designnetwork segmentationsecurity zoningroutingNATtraffic inspectionhigh availability designdisaster recovery designenterprise scale operations