Network Security Engineer - Norfolk, VA

Our Deloitte AI & Engineering team to transform technology platforms, drive innovation, and help make a significant impact on our clients' success. You'll work alongside talented professionals reimagining and reengineering operations and processes that are critical to businesses. Your contributions can help clients improve financial performance, accelerate new digital ventures, and fuel growth through innovation.

Work You'll Do

We are seeking a skilled and experienced Network Security Engineer to join our Network Operations Center (NOC) team. The ideal candidate for this position will have experience designing, deploying, and managing Palo Alto Next-Generation Firewalls (NGFWs)-both physical (e.g., PA-450) and virtual (e.g., VM-300, VM-700)-and Panorama across geographically dispersed sites.

The primary job of the support team is to integrate key locations into the infrastructure by standing up all technologies, both software and hardware, to integrate systems into this network topology with an end goal of enhancing the cyber security posture and enable continuous monitoring of critical systems.

• Expertise in designing, deploying, and configuring Palo Alto firewalls (physical and virtual) and Panorama.
• Proficiency in deploying and managing virtual Palo Alto firewalls in VMware NSX for software-defined networking and security.
• Ability to manage firewall policies, rules, security zones, and access controls.
• Experience in planning and performing firmware updates, patches, and software upgrades.
• Knowledge of aligning firewall policies with Zero Trust principles, compliance requirements, and security best practices.
• Collaboration skills with network engineers and system administrators for configuration alignment.
• Capability to provide training and share expertise on Next Generation Firewall technologies
• Strong understanding of network security principles, Zero Trust architectures, and compliance requirements.
• Expertise in firewall policy management, access control, and policy enforcement across physical, virtual, and NSX-integrated firewalls.
• Proficiency with configuring network protocols (BGP) and security policies within the Palo Alto Environment
• Experience with automation tools (e.g., Python, Ansible) and NSX integrations

The Team

Deloitte's Government and Public Services (GPS) practice - our people, ideas, technology and outcomes-is designed for impact. Serving federal, state, & local government clients as well as public higher education institutions, our team of professionals brings fresh perspective to help clients anticipate disruption, reimagine the possible, and fulfill their mission promise.

Our Hybrid Cloud Infrastructure offering provides specialized engineering capabilities to design, implement, manage, and operate hybrid cloud environments, modernize networks and AI infrastructure from the core to the edge, and incubate new infrastructure and device services to help clients stay ahead with the latest technology advances.

Qualifications

Required

• Bachelor's Degree
• 5+ of experience in configuring and managing Palo Alto Next-Generation Firewalls (physical and virtual) and Panorama
• Valid Sec+ certification or ability to obtain before starting
• Active Secret security clearance required
• Must be legally authorized to work in the United States without the need for employer sponsorship, now or at any time in the future
• Ability to travel 10% on average, based on the work you do and the clients and industries/sectors you serve.
• Must be able to work onsite 5 days a week in Norfolk, VA

Preferred:

• Experience with virtual Palo Alto firewalls as a service in VMware NSX environments is highly desirable.
• Preferred Certifications include
• Certified Information Systems Security Professional (CISSP)
• Palo Alto Networks Certified Network Security Engineer (PCNSE) or equivalent certification
• VMware certifications (e.g., VCP-NV) are a plus.
• Offensive Security Certified Professional (OSCP)

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