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Job Description
Job Description
Seeking a Senior level Network Engineer with a specialization in Palo Alto. This is a Long Term Contract (12 month minimum) located in Columbia, SC. This opportunity is a hybrid model, 3x a week on site and must be a resident of South Carolina, North Carolina or Georgia. No c2c candidates please.
About The Role: The Sr. Palo Alto Cloud Engineer will collaborate with Product Owners, Applications Owners, Network and Security teams to design and deliver optimal solutions for large-scale app and infrastructure cloud solutions. This position requires demonstrated proficiency in Palo Alto cloud firewalls with a similar level of expertise in cloud architecture and design.
What You Will Do In This Role:
- Design and deploy highly available, scalable, and secure cloud infrastructure with a focus on AWS and Azure Cloud.
- Manage and deploy VM-Series Palo Alto firewalls in Azure and AWS cloud.
- Manage and deploy F5 BIG-IP LTM and ASM in Azure and AWS cloud.
- Analyze and resolve configuration issues in development, test, and production environments.
- Familiar with major security compliance frameworks and building effective monitoring, logging, and auditing of production systems to ensure compliance with mandated compliance policies (e.g., ARC-AMP (formerly known as MARS-E), NIST, HIPAA, PII, SOX, PCI, CMMC, CUI, etc.).
- Experience implementing secure (zero trust) infrastructure in cloud.
- Security experience with state and local government customers.
Required Experience:
- 10 years’ experience in network security and engineering.
- 5+ years of 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 required.
- Must demonstrate ability to architect zero-trust controls using Palo Alto technology.
- 5 years’ experience in deploying, configuring and maintaining BIG-IP F5 LTM.
Preferred Experience:
- Palo Alto Firewalls
- INFOBLOX DDI
- F5 LTM/ASM/I-RULES
- FORESCOUT
- OPSWAT METADEFENDER/ICAP
- Prisma Cloud
- Cisco Umbrella
Required Education:
- Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, Information Technology or related field.
Required Certifications: Must hold one of the following certifications:
- Palo Alto, AWS, or Azure certification
Location and commute
Columbia, SC 29212.
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How to apply
Review the vacancy and complete the application on the employer or recruitment partner’s website. Requisition ID: WJ-2990854408.