What success looks like in this role:

Skill Set: Firewall Security Engineer (Basic Troubleshooting, Fortinet and Palo Alto, Any Firewall Experience)

1. Core Firewall Skills

Fortinet FortiGate

• Understanding of FortiOS CLI and GUI navigation
• Interface, zone, and VDOM configuration (including HA pairs such as FGT-A/B)
• Firewall policy creation, review, and troubleshooting (source, destination, service, NAT, security profiles)
• Routing: static routes, BGP, OSPF, and policy-based routing
• Basic VPN troubleshooting (IPsec site-to-site, SSL VPN)
• HA status checks (get system ha status), failover validation, and config sync
• Session and traffic troubleshooting: diagnose sniffer packet, diagnose debug flow, get router info bgp, session table review
• Log review and threat/event analysis via FortiAnalyzer or FortiGate logs
• Firmware upgrade planning and config backup/restore

Palo Alto Networks

• PAN-OS navigation (web UI and CLI)
• Security policy, NAT policy, and Zone-based configuration
• Security profiles (Antivirus, Anti-Spyware, URL Filtering, File Blocking, WildFire)
• Routing: static, BGP, and OSPF on virtual routers
• VPN: IPsec tunnels and GlobalProtect basics
• HA (active/passive, active/active) status and failover checks
• Troubleshooting tools: show session all, test security-policy-match, packet-capture, show routing route, debug dataplane, system and traffic logs
• Panorama basics for centralized management
• Content and PAN-OS upgrade planning

Vendor-Neutral Firewall Concepts

• Stateful inspection, NAT (SNAT, DNAT, PAT), and zone-based design
• OSI layer troubleshooting approach (ping, traceroute, packet capture, logs)
• Routing protocols: BGP fundamentals (peering, AS-path, local preference, route advertisement)
• IPsec and TLS basics
• Asymmetric routing and how it causes dropped sessions
• Change management and rollback practices

2. Cloud and Network Platform Skills

• Microsoft Azure networking: VNets, peering, Route Server, ExpressRoute, VPN Gateway, Network Security Groups, and route tables (UDR)
• Azure NVA deployment: Understanding of firewall appliances deployed as virtual machines in hub-spoke topologies
• Route Server and BGP: Peer status, learned and advertised routes, and route preference
• ExpressRoute and Global Reach: Basic understanding of circuit and peering behavior
• Azure permissions and tools: Azure Portal, Azure CLI, and Network Watcher (connection troubleshoot, NSG flow logs, IP flow verify)
• Routing and switching fundamentals: VLANs, subnetting, ARP, and L2 extension concepts

3. Security Operations Skills

These map to the role’s responsibility to work with senior security engineers on protection, detection, and response.

• Security policy hardening and least-privilege rule design
• Threat log analysis and incident triage (IPS, malware, malicious URL, and blocked-traffic events)
• Basic SIEM familiarity (Splunk, Microsoft Sentinel, or FortiAnalyzer)
• Vulnerability and patch awareness for firewall OS and platform software
• Incident response support: containment steps, evidence collection, and escalation
• Understanding of the cybersecurity lifecycle: identify, protect, detect, respond, recover

4. Operational and Process Skills

• Change execution: Following approved change plans, runbooks, and rollback steps for adds, moves, and changes
• Documentation: Maintaining operating procedures, configuration records, and network diagrams
• Ticketing and workflow: Using ServiceNow, Jira, or similar tools to request, track, and close work
• Transitions and migrations: Supporting cutovers, parallel runs, and knowledge transfer
• Coordination: Working with GITS, application owners, and senior engineers during maintenance windows
• Communication: Clear status updates, escalation of blockers, and stakeholder notifications

5. Metrics and Reporting

• Collecting firewall and security metrics on a routine basis (policy hit counts, blocked threats, VPN uptime, HA status, and device health)
• Producing weekly or monthly reports for senior security engineers and management
• Tracking change success rate, incident trends, and patch compliance
• Using dashboards in FortiAnalyzer, Palo Alto Panorama or Cortex, Azure Monitor, or similar tools

You will be successful in this role if you have:

BA/BS degree and 0-2 years’ relevant experience OR equivalent combination of education and experience

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