Remote Senior Network Security Engineer

GovCIO; Montgomery (AL); Remote; USD 120,000 - 140,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Employee Assistance Program (EAP)

Corporate Discounts

Learning & Development platform, to  

Training, Education and Certification

Referral Bonus Program

Internal Mobility Program

Pet Insurance

Flexible Work Environment

Job summary

GovCIO is seeking a highly experienced Senior Network & Security Engineer to lead design, operation, troubleshooting, and continuous improvement of enterprise network-security infrastructure, including Palo Alto NGFWs, Panorama, HA, Cisco switching, and Cortex XSIAM.

The role is fully remote within the United States and will partner with SOC, infrastructure, cloud, and application teams to reduce risk and maintain highly available services while mentoring junior engineers.

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 firewall-policy and microsegmentation design.
• Configure and troubleshoot NAT, VPN, decryption and App-ID policies.
• Manage PAN-OS NGFW environments and Panorama.
• Mentor engineers and lead security incident responses.

Skills

Palo Alto Networks

Panorama

HA design

Microsegmentation

Security policy design

Education

Bachelor’s degree with 8+ years (or commensurate experience)

Tools

Panorama

NGFW

Cisco Nexus

DNS & VPN

Job description

GovCIO is seeking a highly experienced Senior Network & Security Engineer to lead design, operation, troubleshooting, and continuous improvement of enterprise network-security infrastructure, including Palo Alto NGFWs, Panorama, HA, Cisco switching, and Cortex XSIAM.

The role is fully remote within the United States and will partner with SOC, infrastructure, cloud, and application teams to reduce risk and maintain highly available services while mentoring junior engineers.