Remote Senior Network & Security Engineer

GovCIO; Annapolis (MD); Remote; USD 120,000 - 140,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

EAP

Corporate discounts

Learning & development

Certification assistance

Referral bonus

Internal mobility

Pet insurance

Flexible work environment

Job summary

GovCIO is seeking a Senior Network & Security Engineer to lead the design, operation, and optimization of enterprise network-security infrastructure. You will own Palo Alto NGFW environments, Panorama management, and high-availability configurations while collaborating with SOC, cloud, and application teams.

You will diagnose complex network and security incidents, mentor junior engineers, and drive architecture standards across zero-trust policies, microsegmentation, and secure traffic flows.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree with 8+ years or commensurate experience.
• 7+ years of progressive experience in network engineering, network security, firewall administration, or security infrastructure operations.
• 5+ 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 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

Palo Alto firewalls

Panorama management

HA deployments

Cisco switching

Zero-trust security

TCP/IP troubleshooting

Network segmentation

Security incident lead

Education

Bachelor's degree

Tools

Palo Alto Panorama

PAN-OS

Cisco Catalyst/Nexus

Cortex XSIAM

Strata Logging Service

Job description

GovCIO is seeking a Senior Network & Security Engineer to lead the design, operation, and optimization of enterprise network-security infrastructure. You will own Palo Alto NGFW environments, Panorama management, and high-availability configurations while collaborating with SOC, cloud, and application teams.

You will diagnose complex network and security incidents, mentor junior engineers, and drive architecture standards across zero-trust policies, microsegmentation, and secure traffic flows.