Senior Network & Security Engineer — Remote

GovCIO; Little Rock (AR); Remote; USD 125,000 - 150,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

EAP

Corporate Discounts

Learning & Development platform

Certification Assistance

Referral Bonus Program

Internal Mobility Program

Pet Insurance

Flexible Work Environment

Job summary

GovCIO is seeking a Master Network & Security Engineer to lead design, operation, troubleshooting, and improvement of enterprise network-security infrastructure. This role focuses on Palo Alto NGFWs, Panorama, High Availability, Cisco switching, network segmentation, Cortex XSIAM, and Strata Logging Service.

The Senior Engineer will act as a technical escalation point for complex incidents, drive architecture initiatives, establish standards, and collaborate with SOC, infrastructure, cloud,

Qualifications

• Master’s degree in Cybersecurity, Information Technology, Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field; equivalent experience may be considered.
• 10+ years of progressive experience in network engineering, network security, firewall administration, or security infrastructure operations.
• 6+ 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.

Skills

Palo Alto Networks expertise

PAN-OS troubleshooting

Network security architecture

HA design & failover

TCP/IP networking

Zero trust policies

Education

Master's degree in Cybersecurity/IT/Engineering

Tools

Palo Alto Panorama

Strata Logging Service

Cortex XSIAM

Cisco Catalyst/Nexus

Job description

GovCIO is seeking a Master Network & Security Engineer to lead design, operation, troubleshooting, and improvement of enterprise network-security infrastructure. This role focuses on Palo Alto NGFWs, Panorama, High Availability, Cisco switching, network segmentation, Cortex XSIAM, and Strata Logging Service.

The Senior Engineer will act as a technical escalation point for complex incidents, drive architecture initiatives, establish standards, and collaborate with SOC, infrastructure, cloud,