Cloud Network Operations Engineer - Remote​/Nationwide

About You

You are a person who is passionate about ensuring reliability, performance, security, and continuous improvement of cloud native network infrastructure. We need someone who is an expert with cloud operations to support daytoday system health, implement scalable cloud network solutions, and automate cloud network operations with a strong focus on Azure. In the role of Cloud Network Operations Engineer, you will be responsible for managing and securing cloud based perimeter and internal segmentation using Palo Alto firewalls.

• Tell us about your experience with Cloud Network Operations Engineering.
• Are you a team player and a self-motivator?
• What is your experience with conducting business in a way that is credit to a company?
• We are counting on you to manage multiple projects using your problem-solving skills.
• We are looking for someone UNCOMMON. What is uncommon about you?

Are you highly committed? Are you team-oriented? Do you value professionalism, trust, honesty, and integrity? If so, we cannot wait to meet you.

• Design, implement, and maintain cloud native network architectures (VPCs, VNets, subnets, load balancers, transit gateways, etc.).
• Configure cloud routing, firewalls, network security groups, VPNs, and segmentation policies.
• Develop and maintain network diagrams, documentation, and cloud infrastructure standards.
• Support cloudtocloud networking, peering, and interservice communication across cloud regions and accounts/subscriptions.
• Cloud Operations & Monitoring
• Continuously monitor cloud network performance, availability, and endpoint health.
• Troubleshoot and resolve cloud networking issues to minimize downtime.
• Execute cloud change control activities including upgrades, patches, and configuration updates.
• Participate in incident response, rootcause analysis, and longterm mitigation planning.
• Build automation and Infrastructure as Code tooling (Terraform, Bicep, Cloud Formation, Python, Power Shell) to streamline network operations.
• Optimize cloud networking performance, resiliency, and cost through proactive analysis and tuning.
• Implement automated monitoring, alerting, and self healing workflows.
• Implement and enforce cloud networking security controls such as encryption, identity based access policies, and zerotrust network configurations.
• Apply cloud provider security features (WAF, DDoS protection, Private Endpoints, Firewall/IDS/IPS).
• Participate in backup, failover, DR testing, and cloud native continuity planning.
• Ensure compliance with cloud security best practices and regulatory or organizational requirements.
• Partner with Dev Ops, application, and security teams to support cloud deployments and network-dependent services.
• Assist in CI/CD cloud integration by enabling secure, efficient network pathways.
• Provide technical guidance, documentation, and mentoring to team members and stakeholders.
• Configure, manage, and maintain Palo Alto Next Generation Firewalls (NGFW) within cloud environments, including policy creation, rule optimization, and secure traffic segmentation.
• Implement PANOS security features such as AppID, UserID, Content
  
  ID, SSL decryption, threat prevention, and URL filtering to secure cloud workloads.
• Manage Palo Alto Prisma Access or VMSeries firewalls deployed in Azure, ensuring scalable and resilient cloud firewall architectures.
• Monitor firewall logs, threat alerts, and network activity via Panorama or cloud native monitoring tools to detect and remediate security risks.
• Collaborate with cloud security teams to design and enforce zerotrust network architectures, leveraging Palo Alto policy sets and microsegmentation strategies.
• Conduct regular firewall audits, rule cleanup, performance tuning, and compliance validation to maintain a secure cloud posture.
• Support incident response by analyzing traffic patterns, threat signatures, and security events captured by Palo Alto tools.

• Bachelor's degree in IT, Computer Science, Networking, Cybersecurity, or equivalent experience.
• Minimum of 3 years working in cloud networking, cloud operations, or cloud engineering.
• Strong understanding of cloud networking concepts (VPC/VNet design, peering, load…