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Senior Firewall Security Engineer

Fiserv
Lincoln, NE Full Time
POSTED ON 12/19/2025 CLOSED ON 3/1/2026

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Job Title

Senior Firewall Security Engineer

About Your Role

As a member of the Perimeter Security Team, you will be entrusted with delivering cutting-edge enterprise perimeter security infrastructure solutions leveraging next-generation security technologies. This role involves providing design and engineering expertise to project and program initiatives, fostering collaboration across various Information Security teams for seamless delivery within established processes.

What You’ll Do

  • Develop robust relationships with internal and occasional external customers to ensure technically sound solutions. Identify and address issues to ensure project delivery within budget and on time
  • Collaborate with project teams, infrastructure and application architects, and senior managers to drive significant tech refresh activities and develop solutions’ infrastructure components
  • Evaluate platform capacities, predict required infrastructure additions, and ensure sustained performance levels
  • Contribute to establishing engineering standards and ensure their successful implementation, measurement, and reporting
  • Showcase proficiency in firewalls, intrusion systems, networking, databases, HA/DR, virtual systems, PCI compliance, and other IT regulations
  • Lead the technical design of enterprise network security systems, leveraging your extensive architectural familiarity with technologies like WAN & LAN, Security, Firewall, XML Gateway, Virtualization, HA/DR, and WAF
  • Demonstrate your expertise in Python scripting, staying attuned to evolving security frameworks
  • Provide tier 2 and tier 3 support for high-availability solutions in a 24x7x365 environment

Experience You’ll Need To Have

  • 8 years of work experience in a security engineering or firewall engineering role
  • 5 years of experience designing and building enterprise-class security systems
  • 5 years of hands-on experience with Palo Alto and Checkpoint
  • 5 years of experience in design and engineering across Azure, AWS, and/or GCP
  • 3 years of scripting and automation experience (Python, Ansible, etc.)
  • Proficiency in firewall technologies, intrusion systems, networking, databases, HA/DR, virtual systems, PCI compliance, and IT regulations
  • Recent experience in technical design for enterprise network security systems.
  • Bachelor’s degree in computer science, or a relevant field, or an equivalent combination of education, work, and/or military experience

Experience That Would Be Great To Have

  • Engineering and Design level certifications (CISSP, Palo Alto Network, Checkpoint Networks)
  • Experience in an e-Commerce or client transaction environment
  • Previous Infrastructure/Security engineering experience in heterogeneous environments

How You’ll Work

  • This role requires being on-call during non-standard and/or overnight hours on a rotational basis
  • This role requires flexibility to work overtime that includes weekends and holidays
  • This role requires use of a computer and audio equipment

Travel

  • Approximately 5-10% travel off-site or to other office locations is expected

Sponsorship

  • You must currently possess valid and unrestricted U.S. work authorization to be considered for this role. Individuals with temporary visas including, but not limited to, F-1 (OPT, CPT, STEM), H-1B, H-2, or TN, or any candidate requiring sponsorship, now or in the future, will not be considered for this role.

This role is not eligible to be performed in Colorado, California, District of Columbia, Hawaii, Illinois, Maryland, Minnesota, New Jersey, New York, Nevada, Rhode Island or Washington.

It is unlawful to discriminate against a prospective employee due to the individual's status as a veteran.

Please note that salary ranges provided for this role on external job boards are salary estimates made by outside parties and may not be accurate.

Thank You For Considering Employment With Fiserv. Please

  • Apply using your legal name
  • Complete the step-by-step profile and attach your resume (either is acceptable, both are preferable).

Our Commitment To Equal Opportunity

Fiserv is proud to be an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, national origin, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, age, disability, protected veteran status, or any other category protected by law.

If you have a disability and require a reasonable accommodation in completing a job application or otherwise participating in the overall hiring process, please contact AskHR.US@fiserv.com. Please note our AskHR representatives do not have visibility to your application status. Current associates who require a workplace accommodation should refer to Fiserv’s Disability Accommodation Policy for additional information.

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