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