Senior Palo Alto Firewall & Security Engineer

CO2000 H. Lee Moffitt Cancer Center and Research Institute, Inc.; United States; On-site; USD 100,000 - 150,000; Full time

Job summary

CO2000 H. Lee Moffitt Cancer Center and Research Institute, Inc. is seeking a Security Systems Engineer III to lead design and implementation of security controls across applications, infrastructure, and cloud environments, including SIEM/log management and XDR delivery.

You will interact with stakeholders to improve governance and security posture. The role emphasizes architecture, policy reviews, and hands-on engineering of firewalls (Palo Alto), incident response tooling, and security

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or Information Systems required.
• 7+ years IT support experience; or 9 years with an Associate’s degree.
• Alternative: 11 years with a High School diploma.
• Strong knowledge of Palo Alto Networks firewall platforms.
• Experience with firewall policy administration and rule management.
• Proficient in TCP/IP networking; Visio, Wireshark, Splunk, PowerShell.

Responsibilities

• Install and configure security systems and applications, including policy assessment and compliance tools, network security appliances and host-based security systems.
• Research threats and vulnerabilities and, where appropriate, takes action to mitigate threats and remediate vulnerabilities
• Designs infrastructure and web applications firewalls, including physical and virtual firewalls
• Participates in infrastructure projects to develop, plan and implement specifications for network and distributed system security technologies in support of key information systems
• Implements or coordinates remediation required by audits, and document exceptions as necessary. Also works with Cyber Security on any issues or challenges

Skills

Palo Alto firewalls

Firewall administration

Firewall policy management

Firewall policies troubleshooting

TCP/IP networking

Visio

Wireshark

Splunk

PowerShell

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or Information Systems

7+ years IT support experience or 9 years with Associate's degree

High School diploma + 11 years experience alternative

Job description

CO2000 H. Lee Moffitt Cancer Center and Research Institute, Inc. is seeking a Security Systems Engineer III to lead design and implementation of security controls across applications, infrastructure, and cloud environments, including SIEM/log management and XDR delivery.

You will interact with stakeholders to improve governance and security posture. The role emphasizes architecture, policy reviews, and hands-on engineering of firewalls (Palo Alto), incident response tooling, and security