Remote Master Network & Security Engineer

GovCIO; Juneau (AK); Remote; USD 125,000 - 150,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Employee Assistance Program

Corporate Discounts

Learning & Development platform

Training, Education and Certification

Referral Bonus Program

Internal Mobility Program

Pet Insurance

Flexible Work Environment

Job summary

GovCIO seeks a Master Network & Security Engineer to lead the design, operation, troubleshooting, and improvement of enterprise network-security infrastructure. The role focuses on Palo Alto NGFWs, PAN-OS, Panorama, HA designs, and full lifecycle management from architecture to incident response.

As a senior technical escalation point, you will partner with SOC, infrastructure, cloud, and application teams to reduce risk and maintain highly available services while adhering to zero-trust and

Qualifications

• Master’s degree in Cybersecurity, Information Technology, Computer Science, Engineering, or related field (three additional years if Bachelor’s).
• 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.
• Advanced understanding of HA1, HA2, HA3, configuration synchronization, session synchronization, failover behavior, link monitoring, path monitoring, peer health, and recovery processes.

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.

Skills

Network engineering

Security engineering

Firewall management

Palo Alto

Education

Master's degree in Cybersecurity

Tools

Palo Alto Panorama

Cortex XSIAM

Strata Logging Service

Cisco Nexus

Nexus switching

Job description

GovCIO seeks a Master Network & Security Engineer to lead the design, operation, troubleshooting, and improvement of enterprise network-security infrastructure. The role focuses on Palo Alto NGFWs, PAN-OS, Panorama, HA designs, and full lifecycle management from architecture to incident response.

As a senior technical escalation point, you will partner with SOC, infrastructure, cloud, and application teams to reduce risk and maintain highly available services while adhering to zero-trust and