Network Security Engineer

About the role

Join PwC's Cyber Security Tech team in Athens as a Network Security Engineer. You will help design, implement and continuously improve enterprise network and security solutions, ensuring our clients’ infrastructure remains resilient and secure.

Key responsibilities

• Design, deploy and maintain SASE platforms, next‑generation firewalls, web application firewalls and API security solutions.
• Administer Palo Alto Networks and Fortinet technologies, including firewalls, VPN services, threat‑prevention and centralized management.
• Support Imperva and Fortinet application‑security tools such as WAF, API Security, FortiWeb and FortiAppSec Cloud.
• Implement Secure Web Gateway, Zero Trust Network Access, CASB integration and remote‑user connectivity.
• Configure and optimize firewall and WAF policies, manage IP reputation, geo‑restrictions and custom rules.
• Onboard websites, web applications and APIs to security platforms, handling DNS, certificates and routing.
• Apply API security controls, including discovery, schema validation, authentication, JWT validation and rate limiting.

Required profile

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Cybersecurity, IT or related field.
• Minimum 2 years of hands‑on experience as a Network Engineer, Network Security Engineer or Firewall Engineer.

Required skills

• Palo Alto Networks (PAN‑OS, Panorama, GlobalProtect, Prisma Access).
• Fortinet suite (FortiGate, FortiManager, FortiAnalyzer, FortiClient, FortiSASE, FortiWeb, FortiAppSec, Secure SD‑WAN).
• Imperva WAF and API Security.
• SASE, Zero Trust Network Access, CASB, VPN, threat‑prevention.
• Web Application Firewall policy configuration.
• API security concepts: OpenAPI, JSON, XML, JWT, rate limiting.