Intel
Firewall Network Security Engineer
$105K–$175K
US, California, Santa Clara · Full-time · Posted Oct 27, 2026
- Experience
- Bachelor's degree with 3+ years of information technology experience; 3+ years of experience in specified networking and firewall areas.
- Education
- Bachelor's degree
- Visa sponsorship
- Requires verification of U.S. citizenship due to citizenship-based legal restrictions; ability to obtain an active US Government Security Clearance.
About the job
Assists senior engineers in designing, building, hardening, and assessing secure classified network products and enclaves supporting U.S. Government operations.
What you'll do
- Assist with network and security architecture, product testing, validation, and scalability planning for secure enclaves.
- Implement and harden system security designs using commercial-off-the-shelf, government-off-the-shelf, and open-source hardware and software.
- Coordinate security assessments, identify control failures, and recommend corrective actions.
What they ask for
- U.S. citizenship verification due to citizenship-based legal restrictions.
- Ability to obtain an active US Government Security Clearance.
- Bachelor's degree with 3+ years of information technology experience.
- 3+ years of experience in routing (BGP/OSPF), NAT, network segmentation and IP subnetting, and designing and managing firewall policies, IPS/IDS, and threat controls.
Nice to have
- Fortinet FortiGate, FortiManager, and FortiAnalyzer deployment and configuration experience.
- DoD security implementation, automation, SIEM/NAC integration, compliance, monitoring, incident response, network analysis, or relevant cybersecurity certifications.
Pay
$105,300.00-175,210.00 USD (base salary)
Tools
Fortinet FortiGate, FortiOS, FortiManager, FortiAnalyzer, BGP/OSPF, Ansible, Python, Splunk
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