Senior Network Security Engineer Edge Defense Remote/Hybrid

Billennium; Town of Poland (NY); Hybrid; USD 150,000 - 190,000; Full time

Job summary

Billennium is seeking a Senior Network Security Engineer (Edge Defense) to design, implement, and optimize perimeter and cloud security across hybrid and multi-cloud environments. You will lead deployments of NGFWs (Palo Alto and Fortinet), develop Zero Trust solutions, and drive secure architectures for AWS, Azure, and GCP.

You will automate security infrastructure with Ansible, Terraform, and Python, build observability for security operations, and participate in global on-call rotations while

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Security, Software Engineering, or related field.
• 5+ years of hands-on experience managing enterprise firewall environments.
• Strong expertise with Palo Alto and/or Fortinet Next-Generation Firewalls.
• Experience with SSL/TLS inspection, IPS/IDS, URL filtering, threat prevention, WildFire, GlobalProtect, and user identification technologies.
• Practical experience implementing network security controls in at least two major cloud providers (AWS, Azure, GCP).
• Strong understanding of hybrid and multi-cloud networking concepts, including VPCs, VNETs, and Transit Gateways.

Responsibilities

• Lead the deployment, configuration, and maintenance of Palo Alto and/or Fortinet NGFW environments with high-availability architectures.
• Design and implement Zero Trust Network Access (ZTNA) solutions and support the transition from traditional VPNs.
• Engineer and manage network security controls across AWS, Azure, and GCP environments.
• Develop and optimize DDoS mitigation strategies and advanced threat prevention capabilities.
• Drive the full lifecycle of Edge Security solutions, from design and implementation to global rollout and continuous improvement.
• Act as a technical SME for complex network security incidents, troubleshooting and root cause analysis.
• Build monitoring, telemetry, and observability solutions to improve visibility into network security operations.
• Automate security infrastructure and policy management using Infrastructure as Code and orchestration tools.
• Develop APIs and self-service solutions that enable secure consumption of network security services.
• Participate in an on-call rotation supporting critical global security services.

Skills

Firewall management

Cloud security

Zero Trust

Security automation

Incident response

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Security, Software Engineering, or related field

Tools

Palo Alto NGFW

Fortinet NGFW

Ansible

Terraform

Python

Job description

Billennium is seeking a Senior Network Security Engineer (Edge Defense) to design, implement, and optimize perimeter and cloud security across hybrid and multi-cloud environments. You will lead deployments of NGFWs (Palo Alto and Fortinet), develop Zero Trust solutions, and drive secure architectures for AWS, Azure, and GCP.

You will automate security infrastructure with Ansible, Terraform, and Python, build observability for security operations, and participate in global on-call rotations while