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Network Engineer - Consultant - Palo Alto Cloud Engineer

CCS Global TechColumbia, SC🇺🇸United StatesPosted 24 Jul 2026

Quick Overview

Work Type
Hybrid
Level
Mid Senior

Job Description

CCS Global Tech is a rapidly growing Information Technology company with a diverse portfolio of technology products and services and a large network of industry partnerships. With over 22 years of being a successful business with a global talent pool and presence, CCS is a certified Microsoft Gold Partner and specializes in delivering expert Microsoft based solutions for technical and business needs. We have been recognized by Inc. 500 Magazine as one of the fastest growing small companies in the Unites States.
we are a Tier 1 vendor for the City and County of San Francisco for Cloud Services, Staffing Services and Training Services. For this multi-year opportunity with a diverse set of needs to address, we are currently focusing on establishing partnerships with individuals as well as companies who can help us enhance our overall service portfolio, cut lead times, and ultimately help us deliver successfully. We currently hold sizable Government accounts in the San Francisco bay area including City and County of San Francisco, San Mateo County, and Santa Clara County.
We take great pride in our global reach and local influence. Your experience alongside our highly skilled and talented internal team who guide you along the way, offers key insights into what helps you stand out in a competitive job market.
If you are a partner company, please submit resumes with contact information of your own W2 Consultants only. Submitted consultants are expected to have excellent communication skills.

Roles/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
  • Cloud security design, operations, and automation experience
  • Documentation of security tools, deployment configuration, incident reports, etc

Mandatory Skills:

  1. College Degree or 10+ years of experience as a Palo Alto Cloud Engineer
  2. Holds one of the following certifications: Palo Alto, AWS, or Azure certification
  3. 10 years' experience in network security and engineering
  4. 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.
  5. Experience with panorama management, security policy design, threat prevention tuning, and log analysis required.
  6. Must demonstrate ability to architect zero-trust controls using Palo Alto technology.
  7. 5 years' experience in deploying, configuring and maintaining BIG-IP F5 LTM

Preferred Skills

  1. Certification: PCNSA, PCNSE
  2. Certification: SC100 - Microsoft Cybersecurity Architect
  3. Certification: AWS Certified Cloud Solutions Architect
  4. Palo Alto Firewalls
  5. INFOBLOX DDI
  6. F5 LTM/ASM/I-RULES
  7. FORESCOUT
  8. OPSWAT METADEFENDER/ICAP
  9. Prisma Cloud
  10. Cisco Umbrella
  11. Excellent communication skills, both written and verbal.
  12. Self-starter
  13. Explicit experience in panorama templates and device groups, global protect in cloud, and high availability vpn/traffic routing on vm-series
  14. Experience designing and maintaining infrastructure in aws/azure

Skills

AWS
Azure
HIPAA
Prisma
Zero Trust

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