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# Palo Alto Firewall Administrator

- **Company:** Quantam Solutions
- **Location:** Frankfort, KY, United States (Remote available)
- **Experience:** Experienced
- **Salary:** $70,262.0 - $76,960.0
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** Active Directory, Application Firewall, Microsoft Azure, Border Gateway Protocol, Multi-Factor Authentication, Internet Protocol Security (IP SEC), Virtual Private Networks (VPN), Firewalls (Computer Science), Cisco
- **Published:** August 5, 2026
- **Apply:** https://www.indeed.com/viewjob?jk=c18306b20ff994e6

## About the Role

We are seeking experienced professionals with strong Palo Alto firewall administration backgrounds., * Do you have at least 3 years of direct, hands-on Palo Alto firewall administration experience?

## Description

* At least three years of direct, hands-on administration of Palo Alto firewalls (3K and 5K series) managed by Panorama.
 * Building and maintaining Security and NAT policies.
 * Managing HA firewall active/standby configurations.
 * Supporting HA pairs with multiple virtual firewalls.
 * Strong CLI usage for troubleshooting and performance data collection.
 * Performing PAN-OS upgrades on HA firewalls and HA Panorama management consoles (minimum two upgrade cycles completed).
 * Administering and troubleshooting:
 * GlobalProtect VPN environments
 * IPSEC VPN tunnels to WAN and third-party vendors.
 * Mixed-vendor environments (including Cisco and Cradlepoint devices).
 * Working knowledge of BGP for VPN tunnel configuration.
 * Experience with Palo Alto dedicated log collectors.
 * Use of firewall templates and template stacks in Panorama.
 * User-ID integration with Active Directory and RADIUS.
 * Multi-factor authentication implementation with Azure.
 * SSL certificate implementation and lifecycle use on Palo Alto firewalls.
 * External Dynamic List configuration and management.
 * Using firewall logs to inform and automate policy decisions.
 * Effective use of TAG objects beyond rule documentation/identification.
 * Experience working directly with Palo Alto Support to resolve platform issues.

Preferred Skill Sets:

 * Layer 2 and 3 network experience.

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