Palo Alto Integration Engineer, MID
Listed on 2026-09-17
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IT/Tech
Cybersecurity, Network Security
Palo Alto Integration Engineer, MID
Location:
Washington, DC – On-Site
Work Schedule:
Full-Time, On-Site – Daily Commute Required
Employment Type:
Full-Time
Clearance:
Active security clearance or ability to obtain and maintain the required Government background investigation and IT access
Salary Range: $110,000 – $140,000 annually
Digital Global Connectors (DGC) is seeking a Palo Alto Integration Engineer, MID to support the engineering, implementation, administration, and continuous improvement of enterprise Palo Alto Networks security infrastructure in a federal government environment.
This is a local, on-site position requiring a daily commute to the customer site in the Washington, DC area. Only candidates who currently reside within a reasonable daily commuting distance of the worksite will be considered. This position is not remote, and candidates seeking to relocate to the area at a later date will not be considered for this opening.
The Palo Alto Integration Engineer will work as part of a network and cybersecurity engineering team supporting Palo Alto Networks Next-Generation Firewalls (NGFW), Panorama, Prisma Access, Global Protect, Prisma Cloud, and Cortex XDR capabilities. The engineer will work closely with senior security engineers, network engineers, cloud operations personnel, and Government stakeholders to maintain secure, reliable, and compliant network security services.
The ideal candidate has hands-on Palo Alto Networks experience, strong enterprise networking fundamentals, and experience supporting cybersecurity operations in environments governed by Federal security and compliance requirements.
Key Responsibilities Palo Alto NGFW Engineering & Administration- Engineer, implement, configure, administer, and troubleshoot Palo Alto Networks Next-Generation Firewall infrastructure across perimeter, internal segmentation, data center, and cloud-connected environments.
- Develop and maintain firewall security policies using Palo Alto Networks App-, User-, and Content-.
- Configure and maintain threat prevention capabilities, including antivirus, anti-spyware, vulnerability protection, URL filtering, file blocking, Wild Fire, and DNS Security.
- Assist with the implementation and maintenance of SSL/TLS decryption policies.
- Perform firewall rule reviews, rule-base optimization, shadow-rule identification, and security policy lifecycle management.
- Troubleshoot firewall connectivity, performance, routing, and security policy issues and perform root-cause analysis.
- Analyze NGFW traffic, threat, and security logs to support troubleshooting, security monitoring, and incident investigations.
- Administer and maintain Palo Alto Networks Panorama centralized management capabilities.
- Configure and maintain Panorama device groups, templates, shared policies, pre-rules, and post-rules.
- Support onboarding and configuration management of Palo Alto Networks firewalls through Panorama.
- Monitor Panorama platform health, device connectivity, synchronization, and policy deployment.
- Support Panorama upgrades, patches, configuration changes, and operational maintenance.
- Generate operational, security, and compliance reports through Panorama.
- Support the administration and maintenance of Palo Alto Networks Prisma Access capabilities.
- Configure and troubleshoot Global Protect remote-access services, gateways, agents, and authentication integrations.
- Monitor Prisma Access availability, connectivity, performance, and security effectiveness.
- Maintain and optimize cloud-delivered security policies, URL filtering, and threat prevention configurations.
- Monitor and analyze Palo Alto Networks threat prevention logs, Wild Fire results, and security events.
- Assist with tuning threat prevention profiles and firewall policies to improve security effectiveness and reduce false positives.
- Support cybersecurity incident response activities through firewall log analysis, traffic investigation, policy analysis, and containment support.
- Assist with Cortex XDR monitoring, alert triage, prevention policy administration, and detection-content tuning.
- Support the use of MITRE ATT&CK concepts in security monitoring and detection activities.
- Assist with the administration and monitoring of Palo Alto Networks Prisma Cloud capabilities.
- Monitor and triage cloud security posture and compliance findings.
- Support Prisma Cloud policy configuration, alerting,…
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