Which roles ask for Firewalls at tech companies · 59 roles · 90 days to Oct 16, 2026
Updated
59 roles counted that list Firewalls, one per company, title and level; 127 postings in the window.
In short
Firewalls: listed in 59 roles at tech companies whose requirements we read, in the 90 days to Oct 16, 2026. It was required in 45 and preferred in 14. The largest group is security engineer roles: 23 of 59 (39%).
- Required
- 45 of 59 (76%)
- Of the roles that list Firewalls
- Preferred
- 14 of 59 (24%)
- Of the roles that list Firewalls
- Largest group
- 23 of 59 (39%)
- Security engineer
Roles that ask for Firewalls
Roles listing Firewalls, by title family. Where the role has a page, the count is also out of that role's roles whose requirements we read.
| Role | Roles | Of the role's roles we read |
|---|---|---|
| Security engineer | 23 | 23 of 391 (6%) |
| Platform engineer | 15 | 15 of 213 (7%) |
| Software engineer | 8 | 8 of 2,466 (0%) |
| DevOps engineer | 6 | 6 of 168 (4%) |
| Site reliability engineer | 5 | 5 of 219 (2%) |
| AI engineer | 1 | 1 of 218 (0%) |
| Machine learning engineer | 1 | 1 of 323 (0%) |
Companies that ask for it most
- Dragos2 roles
- Fleetio2 roles
- Horizon3.ai2 roles
- NVIDIA2 roles
- Akuna Capital1 role
- Order.co1 role
- Outsource Access1 role
- SpaceX1 role
- The CORE Institute1 role
- Tiger Resourcing Group1 role
Asked alongside
Out of the 59 Firewalls roles whose requirements we read: the other skills they ask for. At most 10 per list, those asked for most.
| Skill | Roles asking |
|---|---|
| Python | 30 of 59 (51%) |
| AWS | 28 of 59 (47%) |
| DNS | 27 of 59 (46%) |
| Networking | 27 of 59 (46%) |
| Terraform | 25 of 59 (42%) |
| Azure | 23 of 59 (39%) |
| Cybersecurity | 23 of 59 (39%) |
| Linux | 21 of 59 (36%) |
| Identity and Access Management | 19 of 59 (32%) |
| Kubernetes | 19 of 59 (32%) |
| Skill | Roles asking |
|---|---|
| CI/CD | 8 of 59 (14%) |
| Incident Response | 8 of 59 (14%) |
| Infrastructure as Code | 7 of 59 (12%) |
| Terraform | 7 of 59 (12%) |
| AI | 5 of 59 (8%) |
| Cybersecurity | 5 of 59 (8%) |
| Kubernetes | 5 of 59 (8%) |
| LLMs | 5 of 59 (8%) |
| Open Source | 5 of 59 (8%) |
| Python | 5 of 59 (8%) |
Experience
Asked most often: 5–7 years, 25 of 47.
Of the 47 roles that state years
- Under 1 year
- 0 of 47
- 1 year
- 1 of 47
- 2 years
- 2 of 47
- 3–4 years
- 11 of 47
- 5–7 years
- 25 of 47
- 8–9 years
- 5 of 47
- 10+ years
- 3 of 47
Degree
8 of 58 (14%) require a degree, and 20 more accept experience instead.
Of the 58 roles we could read for it
- Required
- 8 of 58 (14%)
- Required, or experience instead
- 20 of 58 (34%)
- Preferred
- 3 of 58 (5%)
- Not mentioned
- 27 of 58 (47%)
Pay and remote work
Of the 59 roles we could read for it. Pay these roles state, not what the skill pays.
- Roles stating pay
- 25 of 59 (42%)
- Remote roles
- 41 of 59 (69%)
How we count: 59 roles from 55 employers in the 90 days to Oct 16, 2026, each role counted once however many boards post it. Skills are counted out of the roles whose requirements we read. Roles are not filtered by country. Methodology