USA remote
Mid-Level Network Security Engineer - Palo Alto (Remote)
About this role
Who You Are You are a skilled Network Security Engineer with hands-on experience implementing, migrating, supporting, and troubleshooting Palo Alto Networks firewall environments. You bring strong technical fundamentals across enterprise networking, firewall policy, VPN, routing, high availability, and security services, along with the professionalism needed to deliver client-facing project work. You are detail-oriented, collaborative, and accountable, with the ability to communicate clearly, surface risks early, and contribute to predictable delivery outcomes.
You are eager to deepen your Palo Alto Networks expertise, grow into broader design and consulting responsibilities, and help strengthen reusable standards, documentation, and delivery practices across the Network Security practice. About The Role The Network Security Engineer – Palo Alto Networks supports the delivery of client security engagements through hands-on configuration, deployment, migration, validation, troubleshooting, and operational transition of Palo Alto Networks firewalls and supporting security services.
This role combines technical implementation with growing design, consulting, and technical leadership responsibility. The engineer will deliver assigned workstreams, participate in client workshops and technical reviews, and contribute reusable knowledge that helps build a scalable, high-quality Network Security practice. Other responsibilities include: Configure, deploy, migrate, validate, and troubleshoot Palo Alto Networks firewalls and support security services.
Support discovery, implementation planning, testing, cutover, rollback, documentation, and operational transition activities. Administer security policy, NAT, routing, VPN, high availability, logging, threat prevention, and Panorama-managed environments. Participate in client workshops, technical reviews, and knowledge-transfer sessions with increasing independence. Partner with senior engineers, Technical Project Leads, PMO, and Delivery Operations to surface risks and deliver predictable outcomes.
Build trusted client relationships through strong ownership, clear communication, and reliable delivery. Produce implementation plans, test results, as-built documentation, diagrams, and knowledge-transfer materials. Contribute lessons learned, implementation standards, reusable playbooks, and delivery documentation. Mentor developing engineers and support knowledge sharing across the Network Security practice. Support planned maintenance windows and travel when client delivery requires it.