
Senior Firewall Architect – Engineer
Gainwell Technologies
full-time
Posted on:
Location Type: Remote
Location: Texas • United 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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Hard Skills & Tools
Palo Alto Networks firewallsfirewall architecture designnetwork segmentationsecurity zoningroutingNATtraffic inspectionhigh availability designdisaster recovery designenterprise scale operations