Need Network Security Engineer F5 & Palo Alto for Fulltime

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Network Security Engineer F5 & Palo Alto

Experience: 7+ Years

Location: Atlanta, GA

Position Overview

We are seeking a hands-on Network Security Engineer with strong experience in F5 BIG-IP, Palo Alto Networks, and security monitoring. The role involves managing enterprise network security infrastructure, monitoring security events, troubleshooting incidents, and ensuring secure and highly available environments.

Key Responsibilities

• Administer and troubleshoot F5 BIG-IP/LTM, including Virtual Servers, Pools, Health Monitors, iRules, SNAT, SSL offloading, and load balancing.
• Configure and manage Palo Alto NGFW, including security policies, NAT, VPN, App-ID, URL filtering, threat prevention, and SSL decryption.
• Manage Palo Alto Panorama for centralized firewall administration.
• Monitor firewall, F5, network, and security logs for suspicious activity and potential threats.
• Investigate and respond to security alerts, incidents, and anomalous network traffic.
• Work with SOC teams on SIEM monitoring, threat investigation, incident response, and remediation.
• Perform security event analysis, log correlation, and root-cause analysis.
• Identify and escalate potential security breaches, vulnerabilities, and policy violations.
• Support firewall rule reviews, security policy optimization, and network security hardening.
• Troubleshoot complex network and application connectivity issues.
• Perform F5/Palo Alto upgrades, migrations, configuration changes, and maintenance.
• Support network segmentation, routing, VPN, DNS, TCP/IP, and enterprise security architecture.
• Collaborate with SOC, Network, Cloud, Infrastructure, and Application teams.
• Maintain security documentation, incident reports, and operational procedures.

Required Qualifications

• 5+ years of Network Security/Network Engineering experience.
• Strong hands-on experience with F5 BIG-IP/LTM.
• Strong hands-on experience with Palo Alto Firewall/PAN-OS.
• Experience with Panorama; F5 ASM/AWAF is preferred.
• Experience with SIEM/security monitoring and incident response.
• Strong knowledge of TCP/IP, DNS, NAT, VPN, routing, VLANs, and network security.
• Experience troubleshooting production environments.
• Strong analytical, communication, and problem-solving skills.

Preferred Certifications:

PCNSE, F5 certifications, CCNP, CISSP, Security+, AWS/Azure certifications.