Network Engineer - Consultant - Palo Alto Cloud Engineer

Globalpundits · Columbia, SC

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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

10 years' experience in Network Security and Engineering
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
Experience with Panorama Management, security policy design, threat prevention tuning, and log analysis
Demonstrated ability to architect zero-trust controls using Palo Alto technology
5 years' experience deploying, configuring, and maintaining BIG-IP F5 LTM

Preferred Skills

Preferred Certifications

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.