# Junior Firewall Engineer

SUMMARY: Our Client in the IT Industry is seeking a Junior Firewall Engineer to join a technical team specialising in network security. POSITION INFO: Are you passionate about cybersecurity, networking, and protecting IT infrastructure? This could be your next career opportunity! 🔹 KEY REQUIREMENTS ✅ 1-3 years of hands-on production firewall experience. ✅ Firewall administration must have been a primary job function. ✅ Strong networking knowledge. ✅ Experience with firewall policies, NAT, VPNs, logging, and troubleshooting. ✅ A relevant industry or vendor firewall qualification. ✅ Good communication and documentation skills. ✅ Must be based in or able to work in Cape Town . ✅ Experience with Palo Alto Networks or Fortinet firewalls will be advantageous, but is not essential.

- **Id**: 3792849
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/job/gonova-recruitment-junior-firewall-engineer>
- **Role**: Industrial Engineering
- **Role family**: Industrial Engineering
- **Seniority**: junior
- **Employment type**: full_time
- **Work mode**: on_site
- **Hiring geo confidence**: structured
- **Locations**: Cape Town, South Africa
- **Countries**: ZA
- **Hiring countries total**: 0
- **Experience years min**: 1
- **Visa sponsorship**: no
- **Relocation package**: no
- **Has equity**: no
- **Status**: live
- **First seen at**: 2026-10-01T00:00:00Z
- **Last verified at**: 2026-10-01T00:00:00Z
- **Board verified**: no
- **Days open**: 40
- **Description format**: text
- **Description chars**: 791
- **Description truncated**: no
- **Relocation offered**: no
- **Industries**: Cybersecurity

## Company

- **Id**: 4497933
- **Name**: Gonova Recruitment
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/company/gonova-recruitment>
- **Is staffing agency**: yes
- **Employer type**: agency
- **Is intermediary**: no

## Trust

- **Level**: not_scored
- **Days open**: 40

## Requirements

- **Experience years min**: 1
- **Manages managers**: no
- **Security clearance**: no

## Lifecycle

- Event: open; At: 2026-11-05T07:12:25Z

## Liveness

- **Score**: 11
- **Band**: cold
- **Label**: Long shot
- **P open**: 0.6
- **P active**: 0.411
- **P room**: 0.45
- **Age days**: 39
- **Expected fill days**: 22
- **Reasons**: seen:39, agency, velocity, win:tail, comp:junior
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-09T06:03:00Z

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