Master Network & Security Engineer (Remote)

GovCIO; Phoenix (AZ); Remote; USD 125,000 - 150,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Employee Assistance Program (EAP)

Corporate Discounts

Learning & Development platform

Training, Education and Certification

Referral Bonus Program

Internal Mobility Program

Pet Insurance

Flexible Work Environment

Job summary

GovCIO is seeking a highly experienced Master Network & Security Engineer to lead the design, operation, troubleshooting, and continuous improvement of enterprise network‑security infrastructure. Responsibilities include managing Palo Alto NGFWs, Panorama, HA deployments, and zero‑trust policy design.

The role partners with SOC, infrastructure, cloud, and leadership teams to reduce risk and maintain highly available services.

Qualifications

• Master’s degree in Cybersecurity, Information Technology, Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field (three additional years if Bachelor’s degree); equivalent relevant 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, including multi-device policy management, templates, device groups, upgrades, configuration management, and troubleshooting.
• Strong hands-on experience designing, maintaining, and troubleshooting Palo Alto High Availability environments.

Responsibilities

• Lead the design, deployment, administration, and lifecycle management of Palo Alto Networks NGFW environments running PAN-OS.
• Own centralized firewall management through Palo Alto Panorama, including device groups, templates, template stacks, policy inheritance, upgrades, configuration backups, log monitoring, and firewall onboarding.
• Design and govern security policies using zero-trust, least-privilege, application-aware, and risk-based principles.
• Configure and troubleshoot security zones, NAT, virtual routers, static and dynamic routing, IPsec VPN, GlobalProtect, decryption, URL Filtering, Threat Prevention, WildFire, DNS Security, and App-ID policies.
• Lead enterprise network-segmentation and microsegmentation initiatives using security zones, VLANs, subinterfaces, virtual routers, routing controls, and application-based security policies.

Job description

GovCIO is seeking a highly experienced Master Network & Security Engineer to lead the design, operation, troubleshooting, and continuous improvement of enterprise network‑security infrastructure. Responsibilities include managing Palo Alto NGFWs, Panorama, HA deployments, and zero‑trust policy design.

The role partners with SOC, infrastructure, cloud, and leadership teams to reduce risk and maintain highly available services.