What are the responsibilities and job description for the Palto Alto Network Engineer - Consultant position at Veterans Resource Group LLC?
This contract opportunity is for a senior-level network and cloud security professional focused on designing, deploying, and optimizing secure cloud infrastructure in AWS and Azure environments. The role supports large-scale application and infrastructure initiatives with a hands-on emphasis on Palo Alto VM-Series firewalls and F5 BIG-IP LTM technologies. Responsibilities include architecture and implementation of zero-trust security controls, security policy design, threat prevention tuning, Panorama management, log analysis, and troubleshooting across cloud environments. The position also involves working closely with technical stakeholders to deliver secure, scalable, and highly available solutions while maintaining strong documentation and operational effectiveness in development, test, and production settings. This is a hybrid role based in Columbia, SC.
Contract Details
Required Skills
Preferred Skills
*Candidates must be legally authorized to work in the United States without employer sponsorship now or in the future. Resumes must clearly demonstrate required experience. This opportunity is open to direct hires only; Corp-to-Corp (C2C) and agency submittals will not be considered.
Contract Details
- Type: Contract
- Duration: 12 months
- Work Type: Hybrid
- Location: Columbia, SC
- Estimated Hourly Compensation: $76 - $84/hour
- Residency Requirement: Candidate must be located within a commutable distance to Columbia, SC
Required Skills
- Security policy design
- Threat prevention tuning
- BIG-IP F5 LTM deployment and maintenance (5 years)
- College degree
- Network security and engineering experience (10 years)
- Equivalent experience as Palo Alto Cloud Engineer (10 years)
- Azure certification
- Log analysis
- Panorama management
- Zero-trust architecture using Palo Alto
- Palo Alto certification
- AWS certification
- Palo Alto VM-Series firewalls in AWS and Azure (5 years)
Preferred Skills
- PCNSA
- F5 ASM
- BIG-IP F5 XC
- PCNSE
- Palo Alto firewalls
- F5 LTM
- F5 iRules
- Infoblox DDI
- Forescout
- OPSWAT MetaDefender/ICAP
- Prisma Cloud
- Cisco Umbrella
- SC100 Microsoft Cybersecurity Architect
- AWS Certified Cloud Solutions Architect
*Candidates must be legally authorized to work in the United States without employer sponsorship now or in the future. Resumes must clearly demonstrate required experience. This opportunity is open to direct hires only; Corp-to-Corp (C2C) and agency submittals will not be considered.
Salary : $76 - $84