Master Network & Security Engineer — Palo Alto NGFW Remote

GovCIO; Springfield (IL); Remote; USD 125,000 - 150,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Employee Assistance Program (EAP)

Corporate Discounts

Learning & Development platform

Certification assistance

Referral Bonus Program

Internal Mobility Program

Pet Insurance

Flexible Work Environment

Job summary

GovCIO seeks a highly experienced Master Network & Security Engineer to lead the design, implementation, and optimization of enterprise network-security infrastructure. You will manage Palo Alto NGFWs, Panorama, and high‑availability configurations while coordinating with SOC and infrastructure teams.

The role emphasizes incident escalation, policy design, and secure segmentation across on‑prem and cloud resources. Remote work is supported nationwide in the United States.

Qualifications

• Master’s degree in Cybersecurity, Information Technology, Computer Science, Engineering, or related field; equivalent experience may be considered.
• “10+ years of progressive experience in network engineering, network security, firewall administration, or security infrastructure operations.”
• “6+ years of hands-on Palo Alto Networks firewall experience in a production enterprise environment.”
• “Advanced operational experience with Palo Alto Panorama, multi-device policy management, templates, device groups, upgrades, configuration management, troubleshooting.”
• “Strong hands-on experience designing, maintaining, and troubleshooting Palo Alto High Availability environments.”
• “Clearance Required: Ability to obtain and maintain a Public Trust clearance.”

Responsibilities

• Lead design, deployment, administration, and lifecycle management of Palo Alto NGFW environments running PAN-OS.
• Own centralized firewall management through Palo Alto Panorama, including device groups, templates, and upgrades.
• Design and govern security policies using zero-trust, least-privilege, and risk-based principles.
• Configure and troubleshoot NAT, VPNs, decryption, URL Filtering, Threat Prevention, and App-ID policies.
• Lead network segmentation and microsegmentation with VLANs, subinterfaces, and routing controls.
• Develop secure controls for traffic between users, servers, apps, and cloud resources.
• Architect and troubleshoot HA deployments (Active/Passive, Active/Active).
• Plan HA failover testing, PAN-OS upgrades, and disaster-recovery exercises.
• Lead root-cause analyses for major incidents and drive corrective actions.

Skills

Leadership

Troubleshooting

TCP/IP

Operational excellence

Education

Master’s degree required

Tools

Palo Alto Panorama

Palo Alto NGFW

Strata Logging Service

Cortex XSIAM

Cisco Catalyst/Nexus

Job description

GovCIO seeks a highly experienced Master Network & Security Engineer to lead the design, implementation, and optimization of enterprise network-security infrastructure. You will manage Palo Alto NGFWs, Panorama, and high‑availability configurations while coordinating with SOC and infrastructure teams.

The role emphasizes incident escalation, policy design, and secure segmentation across on‑prem and cloud resources. Remote work is supported nationwide in the United States.