Senior Cybersecurity Engineer - Remote Palo Alto & Cloud

General Dynamics Information Technology, Inc.; Maryland; Hybrid; USD 164,000 - 178,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical plan options

Dental plan options

Vision plan

401(k) with company match

Flex work weeks

Paid time off

Job summary

General Dynamics Information Technology, Inc. is seeking a cybersecurity engineer with 5+ years of hands-on experience to design, deploy, and operate secure networking and cloud architectures.

You will work with Palo Alto firewalls, Prisma Cloud, and IaC practices to enforce Zero Trust and robust security across hybrid environments. The role involves evidence mapping to NIST/FISMA/FedRAMP, incident response, and collaboration across security and operations teams.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree and 5+ years of hands-on cybersecurity engineering experience (or 8+ years of experience in cloud security engineering in lieu of degree).
• Experience designing, deploying, managing, and troubleshooting Palo Alto Networks Firewalls and hybrid network security architectures.

Responsibilities

• Design, deploy, manage, and optimize Palo Alto Networks next-generation firewalls, including security policies, NAT, routing, VPN, application controls, threat prevention, and URL filtering.
• Design secure connectivity, segmentation, and security boundaries between cloud and on-premises environments.
• Manage firewall high availability, upgrades, lifecycle, capacity, and policy optimization.
• Modernize environment to leverage Infrastructure as Code using Terraform and/or Ansible.
• Support security controls and evidence mapping aligned with frameworks such as NIST 800-53/800-171, FedRAMP, and FISMA.
• Evaluate existing security architectures and identify improvements in security, resiliency, scalability, performance, and operational efficiency.
• Develop secure, resilient architecture spanning cloud and on-premises infrastructure using defense-in-depth and Zero Trust principles.
• Troubleshoot complex network, firewall, cloud and application-connectivity issues.
• Support security incidents, production outages, and root-cause analysis.
• Develop monitoring, logging, alerting, dashboards, runbooks, and engineering standards.
• Perform performance tuning, capacity planning, and security infrastructure lifecycle management.
• Participate in on-call or escalation support as required.

Skills

Firewalls

Network Security

Security Architecture Design

Security Automation

Security Technologies

Education

Bachelor's degree

Tools

Palo Alto Panorama

Prisma Cloud

Terraform

Ansible

Python

Bash

APIs

Job description

General Dynamics Information Technology, Inc. is seeking a cybersecurity engineer with 5+ years of hands-on experience to design, deploy, and operate secure networking and cloud architectures.

You will work with Palo Alto firewalls, Prisma Cloud, and IaC practices to enforce Zero Trust and robust security across hybrid environments. The role involves evidence mapping to NIST/FISMA/FedRAMP, incident response, and collaboration across security and operations teams.