Network Engineer - Consultant - Palo Alto Cloud Engineer

Minimum 5 years hands-on experience designing, deploying, scaling, upgrading, troubleshooting, and optimizing Palo Alto VM-Series Firewalls in both AWS and Azure cloud environments. Explicit experience with Panorama templates and device groups, GlobalProtect in the cloud, and high-availability VPN/traffic routing on VM-Series.

Daily Duties & Responsibilities

• Design and deploy highly available, scalable, and secure cloud infrastructure with a focus on AWS and Azure
• Manage and deploy VM-Series Palo Alto firewalls in Azure and AWS
• Manage and deploy F5 BIG-IP LTM and ASM in Azure and AWS
• Analyze and resolve configuration issues across development, test, and production environments
• Build and maintain effective monitoring, logging, and auditing to ensure compliance with mandated frameworks (e.g., ARC-AMP/MARS-E, NIST, HIPAA, PII, SOX, PCI, CMMC, CUI)
• Implement secure, zero-trust infrastructure in the cloud
• Apply security experience relevant to state and local government environments

Required Skills

1. 10 years' experience in Network Security and Engineering
2. Minimum 5 years hands-on experience designing, deploying, scaling, upgrading, troubleshooting, and optimizing Palo Alto VM-Series Firewalls in both AWS and Azure cloud environments
3. Experience with Panorama Management, security policy design, threat prevention tuning, and log analysis
4. Demonstrated ability to architect zero-trust controls using Palo Alto technology
5. 5 years' experience deploying, configuring, and maintaining BIG-IP F5 LTM

Preferred Skills

• Palo Alto Firewalls
• F5 LTM
• F5 ASM
• F5 I-Rules
• INFOBLOX DDI
• Forescout
• OPSWAT MetaDefender/ICAP
• Big-IP F5 XC
• Prisma Cloud
• Cisco Umbrella

Preferred Certifications

• PCNSA, PCNSE
• SC100 – Microsoft Cybersecurity Architect
• AWS Certified Cloud Solutions Architect

Required Education

• College degree or 10+ years of equivalent experience as a Palo Alto Cloud Engineer
• Must hold a Palo Alto, AWS, or Azure certification

Additional Skills & Attributes

• Excellent communication skills, both written and verbal
• Self-starter
• Explicit experience with Panorama templates and device groups, GlobalProtect in the cloud, and high-availability VPN/traffic routing on VM-Series
• Experience designing and maintaining infrastructure in AWS/Azure
• Cloud security design, operations, and automation experience
• Experience documenting security tools, deployment configurations, incident reports, etc.