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Palo Alto Cloud Engineer

AdientOne LLCColumbia, SC🇺🇸United StatesPosted 20 Jul 2026

Quick Overview

Work Type
Hybrid
Level
Mid Senior

Job Description

DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITES:
• Responsible for elicitation, analysis, and documentation of business requirements.
• Research and exploration of user requirements, costs, and benefits in support of documentation required for the demand management process.
• Responsible for analyzing the business needs to identify new processes and process improvements that will meet those needs.
• Documents current business processes and models to define requirements and/or gaps.
• Analyze detailed system factors including input/output requirements, information and paper flow, hardware, and software needs.
• Analyze “soft" system factors including roles, responsibilities, policy, culture, etc.
• Evaluate the impact of potential software and process changes on the organization.
• Develop and facilitate groups as necessary in pursuit of eliciting and defining requirements.
• Assist in the creation of the business case documentation.
• Understanding of architectural consistency and usability standards.
• Defines and develops user test cases and validates test results during testing.
• Executes unit and functional test cases.
• May conduct system demonstrations and training sessions, as well as participate in design/review of training content.
• Plays a third level support role by helping to troubleshoot and resolve issues with production systems.
• Participates in associate meetings and communicates any concerns to management.


QUALIFICATIONS AND REQUIREMENTS:
• Bachelor’s degree in computer science, Information Systems, Business, or another related field or equivalent work experience.
• Proven experience leading data migration requirements from legacy systems into a new ERP (Sage X3) environment
• Strong hands-on expertise in requirements elicitation, documentation, and management, with emphasis on data mapping, transformation rules, and validation
• Deep understanding of data structures, data quality, and migration best practices, with the ability to identify gaps and risks early
• Self-driven and accountable professional with strong stakeholder management and communication skills, able to drive outcomes with minimal oversight
• Working knowledge of Confluence and JIRA.
• Experience in any of the following business areas is desired: Sales operations, order entry, accounting, finance, procurement, warehouse operations, order management, and order fulfillment.
• Minimum of 3-5 years’ business analysis or systems analysis experience is preferred.
• Bonus: Sage X3 experience (ERP).


Associate is expected to operate at a proficient level across the following areas of technical knowledge and skill:
• Ability to organize and prioritize work.
• Detail oriented, proactive, creative, and efficient
• Intermediate level abilities in Excel, Outlook, PowerPoint, Visio, and Word
• Familiarity with application integration methods to include understanding of data mapping process.
• Ability to effectively work both independently and collaboratively in a team environment
• Ability to work on simultaneous and complex projects, with domain expertise in at least one business area.
• Expertise in ERP solution selection and implementation is a plus
• Ability to communicate effectively to both technical and non-technical audiences in written and non-written format
• Ability to work with all levels of associates
• Ability to work with minimal supervision in a very dynamic environment
• Ability to learn new systems and tools
• Knowledge of software development life cycle methodologies, processes, and procedures.
• Active listener
• Effective in a variety of formal/informal presentation settings: one-on-one, small, and large groups.

Job Title: Palo Alto Cloud Engineer

Location: Columbia, SC

Duration: 12 Months

W2 Only

 

Scope of the project:

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. Candidates should possess proficiency in both public and hybrid cloud models. Exceptional consulting skills and the ability to clearly derive desired states from customer requests are essential. The role also requires the ability to work with delivery teams. Importantly, this role is hands-on in delivery, requiring active involvement in the implementation and execution of security solutions. This is not a developer role.

 

Daily duties/responsibilities:

  • 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 skills (rank in order of importance):

  • 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 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 skills (rank in order of importance):

  • 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 Palo Alto, AWS, Or Azure Certification

 

Additional skills/duties:

  • Excellent communication skills, both written and verbal.
  • Self-Starter
  • Explicit experience in Panorama templates and device groups, Global protect in 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
  • Documentation of security tools, deployment configuration, incident reports, etc.

Skills

AWS
Azure
Confluence
HIPAA
Jira
Prisma
Stakeholder Management
Zero Trust

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