Network Engineer Consultant Palo Alto Cloud Engineer

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.