Senior Firewall Engineer
Betway Africa is seeking a Senior Firewall Engineer to manage, support, and maintain critical network security infrastructure. The role focuses on ensuring the stability, performance, and security of production environments through rigorous policy management, firmware maintenance, and proactive monitoring.
This position involves working with advanced security technologies, including SASE and cloud-based solutions, to protect the company's digital perimeter. The successful candidate will act as an escalation point for complex technical issues and contribute to the evolution of zero-trust architectures within the organisation.
- Manage, support, and maintain Palo Alto Networks (Panorama and standalone) and Cisco ASA firewalls in production environments.
- Create, review, and optimize security policies, following least-privilege principles and cleaning up redundant or overly permissive rules.
- Perform firmware and OS upgrades, patching, and high-availability (HA) failover testing.
- Implement new firewalls where required.
- Monitor firewall health, performance, and logs, and troubleshoot connectivity and traffic-flow issues.
- Manage change requests, including risk assessment, implementation, and rollback planning.
- Build, troubleshoot, and maintain site-to-site IPSec VPN tunnels (IKEv1/IKEv2) with partners, vendors, and cloud providers.
- Configure and manage NAT (static, dynamic, PAT, and policy-based NAT) across platforms.
- Implement and support policy-based routing and related traffic-steering functions.
- Support remote access VPN, including GlobalProtect and Cisco AnyConnect.
- Support and administer Palo Alto Prisma Access, including remote networks, mobile users, and policy alignment with on-prem firewalls.
- Contribute to the adoption and evolution of SASE and zero-trust architectures.
- Manage and tune Cloudflare WAF rules, rate limiting, bot management, and custom rulesets.
- Configure and support WAF and threat-prevention features on the firewalls (e.g., URL filtering, IPS, and application-layer controls).
- Investigate false positives and security events, and work with application teams on remediation.
- Respond to security incidents involving firewall or perimeter controls.
- Support audits and compliance requirements with evidence, rule reviews, and configuration reports.
- Maintain accurate network diagrams, runbooks, and standards documentation.
- Mentor junior engineers and act as an escalation point for complex issues.
- 7+ years of hands-on experience in network security or firewall engineering (required).
- Strong, proven experience administering Palo Alto Networks firewalls and Cisco ASA firewalls (required).
- Solid experience with IPSec VPN tunnels, NAT, and policy-based routing (required).
- Strong understanding of networking fundamentals: TCP/IP, routing (static, BGP, OSPF), VLANs, and subnetting (required).
- Working knowledge of SASE solutions, particularly Palo Alto Prisma Access (required).
- Experience supporting a WAF, including Cloudflare, and application-layer security on firewalls (required).
- Strong troubleshooting skills, including packet captures and log analysis (required).
- Clear written and verbal communication, and the ability to work independently (required).
- A relevant certification, such as: Palo Alto Networks Certified Network Security Engineer (PCNSE) or Cisco CCNP Security or CCIE Security (preferred).
- Experience with Panorama, Strata Cloud Manager, or Cisco FMC/FTD (preferred).
- Familiarity with cloud networking (AWS, Azure, or GCP) and cloud-native firewalls (preferred).
- Experience with automation or scripting (Python, Ansible, Terraform, or APIs) for firewall management (preferred).
- Knowledge of zero-trust principles, SD-WAN, and frameworks such as NIST or ISO 27001 (preferred).
Betway Africa is the African arm of Betway, the sports-betting and online-casino brand owned by Super Group (SGHC), a holding company listed on the New York Stock Exchange. Operating since 2006, it delivers sports betting and casino products - including the Jackpot City, Lucky Nugget and Ruby Fortune brands - across markets such as South Africa, Ghana, Nigeria, Zambia, Tanzania, Malawi and Mozambique. The division employs more than 1,000 people, with offices in Johannesburg and Cape Town. It covers functions spanning marketing, technology, finance and customer care for Betway's African operations.
