New 
Network Security Firewall Consultant
 Tata Consultancy Services | |
$110,000 - $130,000
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sick time, 401(k)
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 United States, Ohio, Cincinnati | |
 Oct 28, 2026 | |
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Job Description
Must Have Technical/Functional Skills * Hands-on experience designing, building, configuring, migrating, and supporting Check Point and Palo Alto firewalls across enterprise, data center, colocation, cloud, third-party, and industrial site environments. * Experience assessing as-is physical and logical networks, identifying deployment gaps, and producing low-level designs, bills of materials, migration plans, implementation runbooks, test plans, and rollback plans. * Strong knowledge of firewall policies, objects, NAT, zones, routing, BGP/OSPF, VPN/IPsec, high availability, clustering, segmentation, threat prevention, logging, and secure third-party connectivity. * Experience deploying and operating centralized firewall management platforms, including installation, onboarding, maintenance, upgrades, backup, recovery, and administrative access. * Experience with lifecycle management covering deployment, consolidation, hardware/software refresh, migration, decommissioning, and license or hardware coordination. * Ability to perform policy configuration, approval coordination, recertification, rule cleanup, optimization, duplicate/shadow rule analysis, and configuration-drift remediation. * Experience troubleshooting connectivity and firewall issues using packet captures, traffic logs, routing tables, session analysis, and vendor diagnostic tools. * Working knowledge of incident, request, problem, change, CAB, and configuration-management processes, preferably using ServiceNow. * Experience coordinating rack-and-stack or remote hands, go-live, migration, UAT, cutover, stabilization, knowledge transfer, and handover to operations. * Knowledge of secure segmentation, least privilege, ITAR/export-control requirements, and regulated delivery. Check Point CCSA/CCSE and Palo Alto PCNSA/PCNSE are preferred. * Good to have: AlgoSec, Panorama, SmartConsole, Cisco networking, Zscaler, AWS/Azure firewalls, load balancers, WAF, Nozomi, Splunk, and automation/scripting. Roles & Responsibilities * Plan, coordinate, and execute firewall deployments in accordance with approved deployment processes, reference architectures, security standards, and site schedules. * Assess existing site and network environments to determine physical and logical requirements, identify gaps, confirm dependencies, and document prerequisites. * Develop firewall designs, configuration standards, bills of materials, procurement inputs, implementation plans, migration methods, test plans, backout plans, and handover artifacts. * Build and configure Check Point and Palo Alto firewalls and management platforms, including policies, objects, NAT, routing, VPNs, HA, logging, threat-prevention profiles, and administrative access. * Coordinate hardware, licensing, rack-and-stack, cabling, circuits, IP addressing, routing, DNS, monitoring, and remote-hands dependencies. * Execute firewall go-lives, replacements, migrations, consolidations, upgrades, and decommissioning across data centers, colos, points of presence, cloud, third-party sites, and other facilities. * Manage firewall and third-party connectivity operations, including incidents, requests, changes, approvals, troubleshooting, and vendor escalation. * Perform policy lifecycle activities including implementation, peer review, recertification, cleanup, optimization, drift remediation, compliance validation, and evidence capture. * Provide L2/L3 troubleshooting for connectivity, routing, VPN, NAT, HA, perfor mance, platform, and policy issues. * Perform or coordinate maintenance, patching, software upgrades, configuration backup, recovery testing, certificate management, health checks, capacity monitoring, and end-of-life refresh. * Support validation, UAT, cutover, hypercare, stabilization, SLA reporting, SOP creation, knowledge transfer, and formal handover to managed operations. * Follow approved ITAR/export-control, access, data-handling, change-control, audit, and records-management requirements. Generic Managerial Skills, If any Strong communication, stakeholder coordination, technical documentation, disciplined change execution, problem-solving, and ability to work independently with global network, cloud, cybersecurity, OT, site, procurement, and vendor teams. Salary Range: $110,000 - $130,000 per year TCS Employee Benefits Summary: Discretionary Annual Incentive. Comprehensive Medical Coverage: Medical & Health, Dental & Vision, Disability Planning & Insurance, Pet Insurance Plans. Family Support: Maternal & Parental Leaves. Insurance Options: Auto & Home Insurance, Identity Theft Protection. Convenience & Professional Growth: Commuter Benefits & Certification & Training Reimbursement. Time Off: Vacation, Time Off, Sick Leave & Holidays. Legal & Financial Assistance: Legal Assistance, 401K Plan, Performance Bonus, College Fund, Student Loan Refinancing.
Location
Cincinnati, OH
Function
TECHNOLOGY
Role
Senior Engineer
ID
434660
Skills
Network Security
Salary Range
$110,000 - $130,000 Desired Candidate Profile
Qualifications BACHELOR OF COMPUTER SCIENCE | |