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IT Minds LLC · 16 hours ago

Senior Firewall Rules Engineer USA Remote

United States

Full-time

Remote

Mid, Senior Level

1+ years exp

IT Minds LLC is seeking a Senior Firewall Rules Engineer to design and deploy enterprise firewall rule sets across various environments. The role involves conducting rule reviews, implementing policy-as-code frameworks, and providing tactical responses for global incidents.

AnalyticsCloud ComputingConsultingInformation Technology

H1B Sponsor Likely

Responsibilities

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

Support the creation, refinement, and validation of firewall policies used for both production and lab deployments

Assist in reviewing and aligning firewall rulesets to updated segmentation strategies defined during design phases

Contribute to policy updates and validations required for migration of DMZ workloads to new fabrics

Support testing activities—including baseline traffic verification and resiliency checks—from a policy governance perspective

Assist in maintaining policy documentation, contributing to knowledge transfer, and supporting post-migration cleanup of legacy rules

Qualification

Firewall rule designCloud security AWSCloud security AzureCloud security GCPAutomation tools AnsibleAutomation tools TerraformAutomation tools PythonPolicy-as-code frameworksNetwork consultingSoft skills

Required