SENIOR PALO ALTO CLOUD ENGINEER

This position is for a 12 month contract located in Columbia SC. The position offers a Hybrid work schedule (2 days in office, 3 days remote).

Candidate MUST be a NC, GA, SC resident and willing to relocate to SC prior to starting the role at their own expense.

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.

This position requires demonstrated proficiency in Palo Alto cloud firewalls with a similar level of expertise in cloud architecture and design.

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

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.

Required Education:

College degree or 10+ years of equivalent experience as a palo alto cloud engineer

Must hold Palo alto, AWS, or azure certification

If a candidate falsely lies on a resume regarding actual skillset (work experience); then the candidate will be disqualified immediately upon discovery of such dishonesty. Also, if a candidate is selected for an interview and it is determined that the candidate is using an AI tool during the process, the interviewer reserves the right to cancel the interview immediately.