Job Description

Senior Firewall Rules and Automation Engineer

6+ months

$60-$65/hr on W2

Onsite

Berkley Heights, NJ
Columbus, OH
Frisco, TX
Hagerstown, MD
Marietta, GA
Alpharetta, GA
Omaha, NE
Wilmington, DE
Denver CO

• Design and deploy enterprise firewall rule sets across data centers, cloud platforms, and edge environments, including zone-based segmentation and micro segmentation policies to minimize attack surface.
• Conduct rule reviews, cleanup initiatives, and policy rationalization efforts to eliminate redundancy and reduce complexity.
• Develop and maintain workflows for rule provisioning, validation, and decommissioning using automation tools (e.g., Ansible, Terraform, Python) and integrate them with ITSM systems (e.g., ServiceNow) and CI/CD pipelines.
• Implement policy-as-code frameworks to standardize rule creation, change control, and compliance monitoring across on-prem and cloud environments.
• Design and manage firewall policies for AWS, Azure, and GCP, implement transit gateway/hub-and-spoke architectures, and align network security with cloud governance models.
• Provide tactical response for critical global incidents, codify lessons learned into reusable playbooks, and translate outcomes into enduring standards.
• Conduct network consulting engagements, produce reference architectures, define structured solutions (HLD, LLD, BoM, QA), emphasize Infrastructure-as-Code and observability, and map as-is to to-be states with prioritized remediation plans.

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