Mid-Level Network Security Engineer

📋 Job Overview

You are a skilled Network Security Engineer with hands-on experience implementing, migrating, supporting, and troubleshooting Palo Alto Networks firewall environments. You bring strong technical fundamentals across enterprise networking, firewall policy, VPN, routing, high availability, and security services, along with the professionalism needed to deliver client-facing project work.

🏢 About Myriad360

Our mission is to challenge and enable our employees to achieve great things. We live and breathe our core values: We Before Me, Dare To Be Great, and Own It. We are consistently listed among Inc & Crain's \"Best Places to Work\" and we're proud of our accessible & engaged executive team. We believe in cultivating an atmosphere of inclusion and providing an environment that enables every employee to work to the best of their ability.

🎯 The Role

The Network Security Engineer – Palo Alto Networks supports the delivery of client security engagements through hands-on configuration, deployment, migration, validation, troubleshooting, and operational transition of Palo Alto Networks firewalls and supporting security services. This role combines technical implementation with growing design, consulting, and technical leadership responsibility. The engineer will deliver assigned workstreams, participate in client workshops and technical reviews, and contribute reusable knowledge that helps build a scalable, high-quality Network Security practice.

✅ Key Responsibilities

• Configure, deploy, migrate, validate, and troubleshoot Palo Alto Networks firewalls and support security services.
• Support discovery, implementation planning, testing, cutover, rollback, documentation, and operational transition activities.
• Administer security policy, NAT, routing, VPN, high availability, logging, threat prevention, and Panorama-managed environments.
• Participate in client workshops, technical reviews, and knowledge-transfer sessions with increasing independence.
• Partner with senior engineers, Technical Project Leads, PMO, and Delivery Operations to surface risks and deliver predictable outcomes.
• Build trusted client relationships through strong ownership, clear communication, and reliable delivery.
• Produce implementation plans, test results, as-built documentation, diagrams, and knowledge-transfer materials.
• Contribute lessons learned, implementation standards, reusable playbooks, and delivery documentation.
• Mentor developing engineers and support knowledge sharing across the Network Security practice.
• Support planned maintenance windows and travel when client delivery requires it.
• Complete ongoing security awareness training and comply with company policies to the requirements section.
• Identify and escalate security risks to the appropriate Executive Leadership Team member and actively contribute to remediation efforts
• Other duties as assigned

📌 Required Qualifications

• 4-7 years of experience in network security, firewall engineering, or enterprise networking, including hands-on project delivery.
• 2+ years of Palo Alto Networks experience across implementation, migration, operations, or troubleshooting.
• Working knowledge of PAN-OS, Panorama, security policy, NAT, GlobalProtect, site-to-site VPN, routing, high availability, logging, and security profiles.
• Understanding of TCP/IP, VLANs, BGP/OSPF, segmentation, identity services, certificates, and enterprise network dependencies.
• Experience supporting discovery, implementation planning, testing, cutover, rollback, and operational transition activities.
• Ability to create clear technical documentation, diagrams, implementation plans, test results, and knowledge-transfer materials.
• Professional Services, consulting, multi-site deployment, or customer-facing delivery experience strongly preferred.
• Palo Alto Networks professional-level certification or active progress toward one preferred; PCNSA or PCNSE legacy credentials remain relevant evidence.
• Experience with Prisma Access, Strata Cloud Manager, GlobalProtect, decryption, SD-WAN, cloud firewalls, or SIEM integrations is a plus.
• Complementary certifications such as CCNA, CCNP Security, Security+, CISSP Associate, Azure Security, or AWS Security are a plus.
• Strong communication, ownership, and collaboration skills with the ability to escalate risks before they become delivery issues.

⭐ Desirable Experience

• Experience with Prisma Access, Strata Cloud Manager, GlobalProtect, decryption, SD-WAN, cloud firewalls, or SIEM integrations.
• Complementary certifications such as CCNA, CCNP Security, Security+, CISSP Associate, Azure Security, or AWS Security.

🎁 Benefits

• Unlimited Paid Time Off (PTO)
• Incentive compensation plans for all employees
• Company-funded 401k contributions
• Zero-cost employer-covered health insurance
• Annual BYOD (Bring Your Own Device) reimbursement up to $500
• Paid Parental Leave
• Transparent, candid culture with 1:1 coaching, performance reviews, and a consistent feedback loop
• Quirky, diverse, respectful, high-performing coworkers you'll want to achieve greatness with!

🛂 Visa & Eligibility

Must be based in the United States.