About Company: Our client is a global technology consulting and digital solutions company that enables enterprises to reimagine business models and accelerate innovation through digital technologies. Powered by more than 84,000 entrepreneurial professionals across more than 30 countries, it caters to over 700 clients with its extensive domain and technology expertise to help drive superior competitive differentiation, customer experiences, and business outcomes.Job Title: Cybersecurity FirewallLocation: (Pan India)-Bangalore (Global village Tech Park) / Hyderabad (Rai Durg) / Mumbai (Powai / Mahape) / Chennai (DLF IT Park) / Pune (Shivajinagar) / Noida (Candor Techspace, Industrial Area) / Gurgaon (Ambience Island, DLF Phase 3) / Kolkata (Merlin Infinite, Salt Lake Electronics Complex)Experience: 8 to 10 Years Employment Type: Contract to Hire Work Mode: Hybrid Notice Period: Immediate Joiners Only Job Description:Mandatory Skills : Firewall - CheckPoint, Firewall - Palo Alto Good to Have Skills : Firewall - Cisco, Firewall - Fortinet, Red Teaming FireCompass - Primary skills required include mandatory firewall rule management experience, specifically with Azure or Zscaler. Additionally, candidates should have experience with micro segmentation platforms such as Illumio.- Hands-on experience with at least one of the following: Aruba SD-WAN, log monitoring and incident troubleshooting, firewall audit and rule review using FireMon, strong communication and problem-solving skills, and general network troubleshootingJob SummaryWe are looking for an Intermediate Firewall Engineer to design and implement secure rulesets optimize policies troubleshoot complex sessions and support upgrades migrations across multivendor environments The candidate will ensure resilient perimeter defenses compliant change practices and high-quality documentationKey ResponsibilitiesDesign and maintain security policies across zones with leastprivilege principlesOptimize rule bases object reuse application based rules cleanup of shadowed unused rulesImplement and troubleshoot NAT VPN IPSecSSL and identity based policies UserIDConfigure and tune IPSIDS URL filtering and threat prevention profilesOperate HA pairs perform upgrades patches and failover testingLead packet captures session analysis and performance troubleshootingImplement SSL decryption policies with appropriate privacy and compliance controlsPrepare and execute change plans conduct prepost validation and rollback as neededIntegrate firewall logs with SIEM create use cases and actionable sDocument standards asbuilt configs and runbooks drive policy lifecycle governancePrimary SkillsHandson with Palo Alto PANOS or Fortinet FortiOS CLI and GUI proficiencyStrong knowledge of routing NAT VPN and application awarenessExperience with HA design upgrades and migrationsThreat prevention profile tuning and log analysisPacket capture and advanced troubleshooting techniquesUnderstanding of network segmentation and microsegmentation strategiesKnowledge of change control and compliance PCI DSS ISO 27001Secondary SkillsExposure to other platforms Cisco ASAFirepower Check PointExperience with cloud firewalls Azure FirewallBasic automation using APIsAnsible for policy tasksIntegration with SOAR for enrichment or responseFamiliarity with proxyCASB interactions and egress controlsSoft SkillsStrong communication and stakeholder coordinationAnalytical approach to problem solvingDocumentation excellence and process ownershipAbility to lead small projects and change windowsMentoring of junior engineers