Design, deploy, and optimize advanced security architectures across enterprise and service-provider environments. Collaborate with cross-functional teams to ensure secure network architectures aligned with Zero Trust principles. Implement next-generation firewalls and cloud-integrated security platforms.
Key Highlights
Technical Skills Required
Benefits & Perks
Job Description
Compensation & Role Details
- Salary: $180,000 – $200,000
- Employment Type: Full-time, W-2 only (No C2C)
- Location: Fully Remote
- Benefits: Competitive benefits package
- Start Date: As soon as the right candidate is identified
We are seeking a Senior Network Security Engineer with deep expertise in designing, deploying, and optimizing advanced security architectures across enterprise and service-provider environments. This role is highly technical and hands-on, with a strong emphasis on next-generation firewalls, Zero Trust principles, secure segmentation, and cloud-integrated security platforms.
You will work across complex multi-environment landscapes (on-prem, hybrid, and cloud) and collaborate with cross-functional teams including Cloud, Network Engineering, SOC, and Architecture.
Architecture & Design
- Develop secure network architectures aligned with Zero Trust Network Access (ZTNA)
- Lead end-to-end design of firewalls, segmentation, secure remote access, and cloud-edge security
- Create high-quality HLD/LLD documentation, migration plans, and testing strategies
- Deploy, configure, and tune next-generation firewalls (NGFW) with a strong emphasis on Palo Alto Networks
- Panorama / Strata Cloud Manager
- Prisma Access
- GlobalProtect
- ADEM
- Migrate legacy security stacks to modern, cloud-integrated architectures
- Implement network segmentation, IDS/IPS, URL filtering, VPN/remote access, and threat-prevention solutions
- Integrate security platforms into enterprise logging, monitoring, and automation ecosystems
- Provide advanced troubleshooting across L3/L4–L7 security layers
- Perform root-cause analysis, deliver remediation guidance, and support security operations escalations
- Optimize rulesets, policies, signatures, and performance
- Ensure solutions align with frameworks such as NIST, CIS, ISO 27001, SOC 2, and internal governance
- Maintain detailed documentation, runbooks, and operational standards
- Participate in audits, assessments, and architecture reviews
- 7+ years of hands-on network and security engineering experience
- Strong expertise with Palo Alto Networks security technologies (NGFW, Panorama/SCM, Prisma Access, GlobalProtect)
- Deep understanding of Zero Trust (ZTNA), segmentation, firewall policy optimization, and application-layer security
- Experience with routing fundamentals and packet-level analysis
- Proven history delivering enterprise-scale security projects
- Strong documentation, communication, and consulting skills
- Palo Alto certifications (PCNSE, PCCET, Prisma Access)
- Experience with:
- Endpoint security
- Cloud security architectures
- SASE / SD-WAN
- SIEM/SOAR platforms
- Network/security automation
- Strong analytical and problem-solving abilities
- Ability to work across multiple simultaneous projects
- Effective, clear communication with technical and non-technical partners