Remote Senior Network & Security Engineer – Palo Alto

GovCIO; Helena (MT); Remote; USD 120,000 - 140,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Employee Assistance Program (EAP)

Corporate Discounts

Learning & Development platform

Training, Education and Certification

Job summary

GovCIO seeks a Senior Network & Security Engineer to lead design, operation, and optimization of enterprise network-security infrastructure, focusing on Palo Alto NGFWs, Panorama, HA, and Cisco switching. You will mentor engineers, drive incident response, and collaborate with SOC and cloud teams.

This fully remote role requires expertise in PAN-OS, device groups, policy management, and secure segmentation. United States applicants welcome.

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 and multi-device policy management.
• Strong hands-on experience with Palo Alto High Availability environments.

Responsibilities

• Lead design, deployment, administration, and lifecycle management of Palo Alto Networks NGFW environments (PAN-OS).
• Own centralized firewall management through Palo Alto Panorama and device groups.
• Design and govern security policies using zero-trust and least-privilege principles.
• Configure and troubleshoot security zones, NAT, VPNs, decryption, URL Filtering, and App-ID policies.
• Lead enterprise network segmentation and microsegmentation initiatives.

Skills

Palo Alto Networks

Firewall administration

Network security

TCP/IP troubleshooting

incident response

Mentoring

Education

Bachelor’s degree

Tools

PAN-OS

Palo Alto Panorama

Cisco Nexus/Catalyst

Cortex XSIAM

Strata Logging Service

Job description

GovCIO seeks a Senior Network & Security Engineer to lead design, operation, and optimization of enterprise network-security infrastructure, focusing on Palo Alto NGFWs, Panorama, HA, and Cisco switching. You will mentor engineers, drive incident response, and collaborate with SOC and cloud teams.

This fully remote role requires expertise in PAN-OS, device groups, policy management, and secure segmentation. United States applicants welcome.