Remote Senior Network & Security Engineer (Palo Alto)

GovCIO; Trenton (NJ); 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

Referral Bonus Program

Internal Mobility Program

Pet Insurance

Flexible Work Environment

Job summary

GovCIO is seeking a Senior Network & Security Engineer to lead the design, deployment, and operation of enterprise network-security infrastructure in a fully remote role based in the United States.

The role focuses on Palo Alto NGFWs, Panorama, HA, Cisco switching, zero-trust policy design, and integration with Cortex XSIAM and Strata Logging Service. The engineer will mentor others and partner with SOC and infrastructure teams.

Qualifications

• 8+ years of network engineering, network security, firewall administration, or security ops.
• 5+ years of hands-on Palo Alto Networks firewall experience in production enterprise.
• Advanced operational experience with Palo Alto Panorama, including multi-device policy management, templates, upgrades, troubleshooting.
• Strong hands-on experience with Palo Alto High Availability deployments and failover.
• Experience with Cisco Catalyst/Nexus switching and enterprise routing/switching.

Responsibilities

• Lead the design, deployment and lifecycle management of Palo Alto NGFW environments (PAN-OS).
• Own centralized firewall management through Palo Alto Panorama (device groups, templates, upgrades).
• Design and govern security policies using zero-trust and least-privilege principles.
• Configure and troubleshoot VPN, decryption, URL filtering, Threat Prevention, and App-ID policies.
• Lead network segmentation and microsegmentation with VLANs, subinterfaces, and routing controls.
• Develop secure controls for traffic among users, servers, apps, data-center workloads and cloud resources.
• Architect and troubleshoot Palo Alto HA deployments (Active/Passive and Active/Active).
• Plan HA failover testing, PAN-OS upgrades, and disaster recovery exercises.
• Troubleshoot connectivity and performance issues via logs, captures, and monitoring tools.
• Integrate NGFWs with Strata Logging Service and Cortex XSIAM for telemetry.
• Mentor junior engineers and lead technical reviews and incidents.

Skills

Palo Alto Networks firewall

Network security design

Zero-trust security

High availability design

TCP/IP troubleshooting

Education

Bachelor’s degree

Tools

Palo Alto Panorama

PAN-OS

Cisco switching

Cortex XSIAM

Strata Logging Service

Job description

GovCIO is seeking a Senior Network & Security Engineer to lead the design, deployment, and operation of enterprise network-security infrastructure in a fully remote role based in the United States.

The role focuses on Palo Alto NGFWs, Panorama, HA, Cisco switching, zero-trust policy design, and integration with Cortex XSIAM and Strata Logging Service. The engineer will mentor others and partner with SOC and infrastructure teams.