Firewall Security Engineer - Senior Consultant

Summary

Position Summary Deloitte Cyber understands the unique challenges and opportunities businesses face in cybersecurity. Join our team to deliver powerful insights to help our clients navigate the ever-changing threat design and technology as we partner with clients to transform finance.

Work you'll do As a Senior Consultant on the Cyber Operate team, you will be responsible for:

• Providing architecture analysis, design, implementation, and operational support for enterprise firewall environments, with a primary focus on Palo Alto firewalls
• Conducting firewall audits, rule analysis, risk reviews, and policy governance activities to support security baselines and least-privilege access
• Troubleshooting firewall, routing, Network Address Translation (NAT), Virtual Private Network (VPN), and network connectivity issues across enterprise environments
• Supporting migrations, upgrades, high availability, and configuration changes across Palo Alto and Cisco ASA firewall environments
• Creating standard operating procedures, technical documentation, implementation guides, and operational runbooks
• Providing level 2 and level 3 support, including on-call support, and collaborating with network, infrastructure, cloud, and security teams during delivery and client engagements

The team Deloitte's Cyber Operate teams manage clients' critical cyber assets either as a fully managed service or in partnership with clients. They deliver skilled talent, cutting-edge technologies, and robust processes to operate client cyber capabilities. This includes:

• Managing Identity Lifecycle
• Security Operations
• Threat Intelligence
• Application Security
• Business Transformation
• Continuous Compliance. Cyber Operate team focuses on efficiently running operations by enabling automation, reducing manual effort and adhering to Service Level Agreements (SLAs) based on the standards set by clients

Location: Bengaluru / Hyderabad / Pune / Chennai Shift Timings: 24x7 rotational shifts, including night, weekend, and holiday coverage; on-call support required based on project assignment

Qualifications Required:

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Cyber Security, Information Security, Engineering, Information Technology, or a related field
• 6-10 years of experience in firewall implementation, operations, engineering, and troubleshooting
• Experience with Palo Alto firewall administration, including Panorama, rule analysis, rule modification, and policy optimization
• Experience with firewall platforms such as Palo Alto Networks, Check Point, Cisco ASA or Firepower, and Fortinet
• Experience with Transmission Control Protocol/Internet Protocol (TCP/IP) networking, including routing, switching, NAT, VPNs, and VLANs
• Experience with packet analysis, traffic flow identification, and network trace analysis using packet capture tools
• Experience with Information Technology Infrastructure Library (ITIL) operational processes, including change management, incident management, problem management, and configuration management Preferred:
• Firewall certifications such as Palo Alto ACE, Palo Alto Networks Certified Network Security Engineer (PCNSE), CCNP Security, CCSA or CCSE, Fortinet NSE, Cisco CyberOps Associate, or CCNA Security
• Experience leading client engagements or serving in a lead technical role
• Experience with cloud firewall and hybrid network security architecture
• Experience with Python, Representational State Transfer (REST) application programming interfaces, or similar tools for deployment, reporting, or configuration tasks
• Experience with firewall rule recertification tools such as AlgoSec or FireMon
• Experience developing software or version compliance reports #Cyber_Cyber Operate

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