Senior Palo Alto Cloud Security Engineer

OPSWAT Meta Defender/ICAP

Date Posted: 07/20/2026

Hiring Organization:
Rose International

Position Number: 504378

Industry: Government/Staffing

Job Title:

Senior Palo Alto Cloud Security Engineer

Job Location:

Columbia, SC, USA, 29210

Work Model:
Hybrid

Work Model Details: 2 Days onsite per week

Shift: Regular

Employment Type:

Temporary

FT/PT:
Full Time

Estimated Duration (In months): 13

Min Hourly Rate($): 60.00

Max Hourly Rate($): 80.00

Must Have Skills/Attributes: AWS, Azure, Network Security, Troubleshooting

Experience Desired:
Hands-on Palo Alto VM-Series Firewall experience (5 yrs);
Network Security & Network Engineering experience (10 yrs);
Zero Trust Architecture` (5 yrs);
Experience in deploying, configuring, and maintaining BIG-IP F5 LTM (5 yrs)

Required Minimum Education:

Bachelor’s Degree

Required Certifications/Licenses:
Palo Alto certification or AWS certification or Azure certification

Preferred Certifications/Licenses: PCNSA or PCNSE or AWS Certified Cloud Solutions Architect or Microsoft Cybersecurity Architect

C2C is not available

Required

Education:

• College degree OR
• 10+ years of equivalent experience as a Palo Alto Cloud Engineer

• Palo Alto certification OR
• AWS certification OR
• Azure certification

• PCNSA
• PCNSE
• SC100 - Microsoft Cybersecurity Architect
• AWS Certified Cloud Solutions Architect

• 10 years' experience in Network Security and Engineering
• Minimum 5 years hands-on experience designing, deploying, scaling, upgrading, troubleshooting, and optimizing Palo Alto VM-Series Firewalls in both AWS and Azure cloud environments
• 5 years' experience in deploying, configuring, and maintaining BIG-IP F5 LTM
• Experience with Panorama management, security policy design, threat prevention tuning, and log analysis
• Must demonstrate ability to architect Zero-Trust controls using Palo Alto technology
• Excellent communication skills, both written and verbal
• Explicit experience in Panorama templates and device groups, Global Protect in cloud, and high availability VPN/traffic routing on VM-Series
• Experience designing and maintaining infrastructure in AWS/Azure
• Cloud security design, operations, and automation experience
• Documentation of security tools, deployment configuration, incident reports, etc

• Palo Alto Firewalls
• F5 LTM
• F5 ASM
• F5 i-Rules
• Infoblox DDI
• Forescout
• OPSWAT Meta Defender/ICAP
• BIG-IP F5 XC
• Prisma Cloud
• Cisco Umbrella

The Sr. Palo Alto Cloud Engineer will collaborate with Product Owners, Applications Owners, Network and Security teams to design and deliver optimal solutions for large-scale app and infrastructure cloud solutions. Candidates should possess proficiency in both public and hybrid cloud models. Exceptional consulting skills and the ability to clearly derive desired states from customer requests are essential. The role also requires the ability to work with delivery teams

• Design and deploy highly available, scalable, and secure cloud infrastructure with a focus on AWS and Azure Cloud
• Manage and deploy VM-Series Palo Alto firewalls in Azure and AWS cloud
• Manage and deploy F5 BIG-IP LTM and ASM in Azure and AWS cloud
• Analyze and resolve configuration issues in development, test, and production environments
• Familiar with major security compliance frameworks and building effective monitoring, logging, and auditing of production systems to ensure compliance with mandated compliance policies (e.g., ARC-AMP (formerly known as MARS-E), NIST, HIPAA, PII, SOX, PCI, CMMC, CUI, etc.)
• Experience implementing secure (Zero Trust) infrastructure in cloud
• Security experience with state and local government customers
• Only those lawfully authorized to work in the designated country associated with the position will be considered.
• Please note that all Position start dates and duration are estimates and may be reduced or lengthened based upon a client’s business needs and requirements.

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