Senior Network & Security Architect — Fully Remote

GovCIO; Columbia (SC); 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 an experienced Senior Network & Security Engineer to lead design, operation, and troubleshooting of enterprise network-security infrastructure. You will manage Palo Alto NGFWs, PAN-OS, Panorama, and Cisco switching, ensure HA resilience, and integrate Cortex XSIAM and Strata Logging Service.

The role requires mentoring engineers, coordinating with SOC and infrastructure teams, and delivering secure network segmentation and policy governance.

Qualifications

• 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.

Responsibilities

• Lead the design, deployment, administration, and lifecycle management of Palo Alto Networks 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.
• Develop secure controls for traffic between users, servers, applications, management networks, guest networks, IoT/OT devices, data-center workloads, and cloud resources.
• Architect, configure, test, and troubleshoot Palo Alto High Availability deployments, including Active/Passive and Active/Active designs as required.

Skills

Palo Alto Networks

PAN-OS

Panorama

High Availability

Cisco Switching

Cortex XSIAM

Strata Logging Service

Zero Trust

Education

Bachelor’s degree

Tools

Palo Alto Panorama

Cisco Catalyst/Nexus

Strata Logging Service

Cortex XSIAM

Job description

GovCIO is seeking an experienced Senior Network & Security Engineer to lead design, operation, and troubleshooting of enterprise network-security infrastructure. You will manage Palo Alto NGFWs, PAN-OS, Panorama, and Cisco switching, ensure HA resilience, and integrate Cortex XSIAM and Strata Logging Service.

The role requires mentoring engineers, coordinating with SOC and infrastructure teams, and delivering secure network segmentation and policy governance.