Remote Network Security Engineer Jobs
Remote network security engineer jobs are open across the U.S. at remote-first firms, distributed enterprise teams, and managed security service providers in sectors like financial services, healthcare, cloud infrastructure, and defense contracting. Employers hiring remotely right now include Noblis, M&T Bank, and PDI Technologies. Find a role that fits below and apply directly.
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Cybersecurity
Firewalls
Network Infrastructures
Network Security
Troubleshooting
REQ#: RQ231137
Public Trust: BI Full 6C (T4)
Requisition Type: Regular
Your Impact
Own your opportunity to work alongside federal civilian agencies. Make an impact by delivering solutions that improve citizen services millions depends on.
Job Description
As a Senior Cybersecurity Engineer supporting the Zero Trust and Security Engineering team, you will provide senior-level technical expertise for the design, implementation, integration, operation, sustainment, and modernization of enterprise cybersecurity platforms supporting a large, complex federal environment.
Responsibilities
- Provide hands-on engineering for next-generation firewalls, secure remote access, segmentation, and related network-security services.
- Engineer, administer, troubleshoot, optimize, and sustain enterprise firewall technologies. Palo Alto Networks NGFW, PAN-OS, Panorama, Prisma Access, Strata Cloud, or comparable technologies are strongly preferred.
- Manage the firewall policy lifecycle, including rules, objects, NAT, security profiles, recertification, cyber hygiene, optimization, and removal of obsolete or overly permissive policies.
- Lead firewall and security-platform changes, including impact analysis, testing, change control, rollback, validation, and documentation.
- Support Zero Trust and SASE capabilities including ZTNA, Secure Web Gateway, Firewall-as-a-Service, secure remote access, segmentation, device posture, and policy enforcement.
- Troubleshoot complex issues involving routing, NAT, VPN, DNS, authentication, PKI/certificates, TLS/SSL inspection, logging, performance, and high availability.
- Support platform deployments, upgrades, patching, hardening, configuration management, vendor escalation, and platform-specific vulnerability remediation.
- Engineer and support SOAR, security automation, workflow orchestration, and API-based integrations.
- Develop automation for alert enrichment, IOC analysis/blocking, incident triage, ticket creation, containment, remediation, policy changes, and reporting using REST APIs, Python, or comparable technologies.
- Integrate security capabilities and telemetry across SIEM/XDR, endpoint, identity, ITSM, vulnerability management, DLP, NAC, threat intelligence, cloud, and enterprise logging/data platforms.
- Evaluate AI-assisted security operations that improve detection, investigation, response, administration, and analyst workflows while maintaining appropriate human validation and guardrails.
- Support greenfield deployments, migrations, environment separation, coexistence, testing, and transition to operations.
- Collaborate with Security Operations, network engineering, IAM/ICAM, endpoint, NAC, vulnerability management, cloud, and infrastructure teams; serve as a senior technical escalation point as needed.
- Develop architecture diagrams, SOPs, implementation/test plans, runbooks, troubleshooting guides, configuration baselines, and as-built documentation.
- Support security assessments, authorization activities, audits, evidence collection, and compliance requirements.
- Develop and maintain high-quality technical documentation, including architecture and data-flow diagrams, engineering standards, SOPs, implementation plans, test plans, validation procedures, operational runbooks, troubleshooting guides, configuration baselines, and change documentation.
- Ensure security-platform configurations and engineering changes align with applicable organizational cybersecurity policies, technical standards, approved architectures, and change-management requirements.
- May serve as a technical or project lead for assigned initiatives. This position does not require direct personnel-management responsibilities.
In Order to Be Considered
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Cybersecurity, IT, Engineering, or related STEM discipline and 10+ years of relevant experience; allowable substitutions may apply per contractual labor-category requirements.
- Significant hands-on experience engineering and troubleshooting enterprise next-generation firewalls in complex production environments.
- Strong experience with firewall policy lifecycle management, NAT, zones, segmentation, logging, optimization, and change control.
- Strong network-engineering fundamentals including TCP/IP, routing, BGP, DNS, DHCP, NAT, VPN, TLS/SSL, PKI/certificates, packet analysis, and high availability.
- Experience with Zero Trust/SASE technologies and working knowledge of NIST SP 800-207 or comparable Zero Trust principles.
- Working knowledge of SOAR, security automation, APIs, workflow orchestration, and security-platform integration. Python, REST API, JSON, webhooks, or similar experience is strongly preferred.
- Experience integrating enterprise security platforms and telemetry is strongly preferred.
- Experience with greenfield deployments, migrations, environment separation, or independently managed security environments is strongly preferred.
- Palo Alto Networks or comparable enterprise network-security and SASE experience is strongly preferred, with direct Palo Alto experience highly desirable.
- Federal, government, or highly regulated enterprise experience is preferred.
- Strong analytical, troubleshooting, documentation, communication, and cross-functional collaboration skills.
- Must be able to support planned maintenance and change windows, including occasional after-hours activities, and provide senior technical support for priority incidents or service-impacting security-platform issues when required.
- Must be able to obtain and maintain the required federal suitability determination/background investigation for the position.
Preferred Certifications
- Relevant professional certifications in network security, Zero Trust/SASE, cybersecurity architecture, security automation, cloud security, or network engineering are preferred.
Work Requirements
7 + years of related experience
- may vary based on technical training, certification(s), or degree
Palo Alto Networks Certified Network Security Engineer (PCNSE) | Palo Alto Networks - Palo Alto Networks
Less than 10%
U.S. Citizenship Required
Salary and Benefit Information
The likely salary range for this position is $149,469 - $184,000. This is not, however, a guarantee of compensation or salary. Rather, salary will be set based on experience, geographic location and possibly contractual requirements and could fall outside of this range.
Our Identity Verification Process
As part of the hiring process, we will ask you to complete an identity verification process that leverages advanced biometrics and artificial intelligence to ensure authenticity and protect against identity fraud. You are expected to be on camera during virtual interviews. We reserve the right to take your picture to verify your identity and prevent fraud. By proceeding, you authorize the collection, processing, and use of your biometric data for identity verification and security purposes.
About Our Work
We are GDIT. A global technology and professional services company that delivers technology solutions and mission services to every major agency across the U.S. government, defense and intelligence community. Our 26,000 experts extract the power of technology to create immediate value and deliver solutions at the edge of innovation. We operate across 50+ countries worldwide, offering leading mission-ready capabilities in AI, cloud, cyber and software development.
Join our Talent Community to stay up to date on our career opportunities and events at gdit.com/tc.
Equal Opportunity Employer / Individuals with Disabilities / Protected Veterans
Cybersecurity
Firewalls
Network Infrastructures
Network Security
Troubleshooting
REQ#: RQ231137
Public Trust: BI Full 6C (T4)
Requisition Type: Regular
Your Impact
Own your opportunity to work alongside federal civilian agencies. Make an impact by delivering solutions that improve citizen services millions depends on.
Job Description
As a Senior Cybersecurity Engineer supporting the Zero Trust and Security Engineering team, you will provide senior-level technical expertise for the design, implementation, integration, operation, sustainment, and modernization of enterprise cybersecurity platforms supporting a large, complex federal environment.
Responsibilities
- Provide hands-on engineering for next-generation firewalls, secure remote access, segmentation, and related network-security services.
- Engineer, administer, troubleshoot, optimize, and sustain enterprise firewall technologies. Palo Alto Networks NGFW, PAN-OS, Panorama, Prisma Access, Strata Cloud, or comparable technologies are strongly preferred.
- Manage the firewall policy lifecycle, including rules, objects, NAT, security profiles, recertification, cyber hygiene, optimization, and removal of obsolete or overly permissive policies.
- Lead firewall and security-platform changes, including impact analysis, testing, change control, rollback, validation, and documentation.
- Support Zero Trust and SASE capabilities including ZTNA, Secure Web Gateway, Firewall-as-a-Service, secure remote access, segmentation, device posture, and policy enforcement.
- Troubleshoot complex issues involving routing, NAT, VPN, DNS, authentication, PKI/certificates, TLS/SSL inspection, logging, performance, and high availability.
- Support platform deployments, upgrades, patching, hardening, configuration management, vendor escalation, and platform-specific vulnerability remediation.
- Engineer and support SOAR, security automation, workflow orchestration, and API-based integrations.
- Develop automation for alert enrichment, IOC analysis/blocking, incident triage, ticket creation, containment, remediation, policy changes, and reporting using REST APIs, Python, or comparable technologies.
- Integrate security capabilities and telemetry across SIEM/XDR, endpoint, identity, ITSM, vulnerability management, DLP, NAC, threat intelligence, cloud, and enterprise logging/data platforms.
- Evaluate AI-assisted security operations that improve detection, investigation, response, administration, and analyst workflows while maintaining appropriate human validation and guardrails.
- Support greenfield deployments, migrations, environment separation, coexistence, testing, and transition to operations.
- Collaborate with Security Operations, network engineering, IAM/ICAM, endpoint, NAC, vulnerability management, cloud, and infrastructure teams; serve as a senior technical escalation point as needed.
- Develop architecture diagrams, SOPs, implementation/test plans, runbooks, troubleshooting guides, configuration baselines, and as-built documentation.
- Support security assessments, authorization activities, audits, evidence collection, and compliance requirements.
- Develop and maintain high-quality technical documentation, including architecture and data-flow diagrams, engineering standards, SOPs, implementation plans, test plans, validation procedures, operational runbooks, troubleshooting guides, configuration baselines, and change documentation.
- Ensure security-platform configurations and engineering changes align with applicable organizational cybersecurity policies, technical standards, approved architectures, and change-management requirements.
- May serve as a technical or project lead for assigned initiatives. This position does not require direct personnel-management responsibilities.
In Order to Be Considered
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Cybersecurity, IT, Engineering, or related STEM discipline and 10+ years of relevant experience; allowable substitutions may apply per contractual labor-category requirements.
- Significant hands-on experience engineering and troubleshooting enterprise next-generation firewalls in complex production environments.
- Strong experience with firewall policy lifecycle management, NAT, zones, segmentation, logging, optimization, and change control.
- Strong network-engineering fundamentals including TCP/IP, routing, BGP, DNS, DHCP, NAT, VPN, TLS/SSL, PKI/certificates, packet analysis, and high availability.
- Experience with Zero Trust/SASE technologies and working knowledge of NIST SP 800-207 or comparable Zero Trust principles.
- Working knowledge of SOAR, security automation, APIs, workflow orchestration, and security-platform integration. Python, REST API, JSON, webhooks, or similar experience is strongly preferred.
- Experience integrating enterprise security platforms and telemetry is strongly preferred.
- Experience with greenfield deployments, migrations, environment separation, or independently managed security environments is strongly preferred.
- Palo Alto Networks or comparable enterprise network-security and SASE experience is strongly preferred, with direct Palo Alto experience highly desirable.
- Federal, government, or highly regulated enterprise experience is preferred.
- Strong analytical, troubleshooting, documentation, communication, and cross-functional collaboration skills.
- Must be able to support planned maintenance and change windows, including occasional after-hours activities, and provide senior technical support for priority incidents or service-impacting security-platform issues when required.
- Must be able to obtain and maintain the required federal suitability determination/background investigation for the position.
Preferred Certifications
- Relevant professional certifications in network security, Zero Trust/SASE, cybersecurity architecture, security automation, cloud security, or network engineering are preferred.
Work Requirements
7 + years of related experience
- may vary based on technical training, certification(s), or degree
Palo Alto Networks Certified Network Security Engineer (PCNSE) | Palo Alto Networks - Palo Alto Networks
Less than 10%
U.S. Citizenship Required
Salary and Benefit Information
The likely salary range for this position is $149,469 - $184,000. This is not, however, a guarantee of compensation or salary. Rather, salary will be set based on experience, geographic location and possibly contractual requirements and could fall outside of this range.
Our Identity Verification Process
As part of the hiring process, we will ask you to complete an identity verification process that leverages advanced biometrics and artificial intelligence to ensure authenticity and protect against identity fraud. You are expected to be on camera during virtual interviews. We reserve the right to take your picture to verify your identity and prevent fraud. By proceeding, you authorize the collection, processing, and use of your biometric data for identity verification and security purposes.
About Our Work
We are GDIT. A global technology and professional services company that delivers technology solutions and mission services to every major agency across the U.S. government, defense and intelligence community. Our 26,000 experts extract the power of technology to create immediate value and deliver solutions at the edge of innovation. We operate across 50+ countries worldwide, offering leading mission-ready capabilities in AI, cloud, cyber and software development.
Join our Talent Community to stay up to date on our career opportunities and events at gdit.com/tc.
Equal Opportunity Employer / Individuals with Disabilities / Protected Veterans
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Who's Hiring
Top Industries Hiring
- Food & Beverage
- Technology & Software
- Healthcare & Medical Services
What Employers Look For
The qualifications that appear most often in remote network security engineer jobs.
- Bachelor's degree in computer science, cybersecurity, or a related field
- Hands-on experience with firewalls, IDS/IPS, and SIEM platforms such as Splunk or Microsoft Sentinel
- Industry certifications including CISSP, CompTIA Security+, or CEH
- Proficiency in network protocols, TCP/IP stack analysis, and VPN configuration
- Experience with cloud security controls across AWS, Azure, or Google Cloud
- Familiarity with compliance frameworks such as NIST, ISO 27001, or SOC 2
Tips for Your Remote Network Security Engineer Job Search
Apply early to remote roles that fit
Migrate Mate lists remote network security engineer openings from across the U.S. in one place. Search for roles that match your skills and apply directly without sifting through general job boards to separate remote from on-site listings.
Build a visible async security portfolio
Remote hiring managers can't see you work, so give them a written record. Document a network segmentation project, a firewall rule audit, or an incident response you led. A GitHub repo or a clear write-up shows self-direction and communication ability before the first interview.
Highlight remote-ready security tooling fluency
Remote network security roles run on cloud-native and SaaS-delivered tools. Name the specific platforms you've used, whether that's Splunk, CrowdStrike Falcon, Palo Alto Prisma, or AWS Security Hub. Generic 'SIEM experience' reads weaker than a platform-specific example with context.
Prepare for remote incident response interviews
Remote employers probe how you'd handle a breach or escalation without walking over to a colleague's desk. Practice talking through your async communication habits during an active incident, how you document findings in real time, and how you coordinate across time zones in a distributed team.
Remote Network Security Engineer Jobs: Frequently Asked Questions
How do I get a remote network security engineer job?
Remote network security engineer roles go to candidates who can demonstrate both technical depth and the ability to work independently without in-person oversight. Remote employers screen heavily for hands-on skills in firewall management, SIEM platforms, zero-trust architecture, and cloud security tools like AWS Security Hub or Azure Sentinel. Strong written communication matters too, since most remote teams rely on async documentation for incident response and policy updates. Certifications like CISSP, Security+, or CCNP Security give your application concrete credibility alongside any lab or project work.
Which companies hire remote network security engineers?
Employers currently hiring remote network security engineers include Noblis, M&T Bank, and PDI Technologies, per current remote listings on Migrate Mate as of November 2026. Remote openings are especially active at cloud-native companies, managed security service providers, and distributed financial services and healthcare organizations that need security coverage without geographic constraints.
Can you get a remote network security engineer job with no experience?
Yes, but remote entry-level network security engineer roles are harder to land because you're expected to troubleshoot and make judgment calls without a senior engineer nearby. The companies most likely to hire entry-level remote are smaller remote-first firms and MSSPs that value self-starters. A home lab, a documented capture-the-flag portfolio, or a cloud security project you can walk through in an interview substitutes meaningfully for professional experience and signals you can work without hand-holding.
Do you need a degree for remote network security engineer jobs?
Not always. Remote employers in network security weigh certifications, demonstrable skills, and real project outcomes heavily alongside or instead of a degree. CISSP, CISM, CEH, CompTIA Security+, and vendor-specific credentials from Palo Alto or Cisco carry real weight with hiring managers. A documented portfolio of network security work, such as firewall configurations, incident response write-ups, or vulnerability assessments, often moves a non-degree candidate further than a degree with no applied work behind it.
Which industries hire the most remote network security engineers?
The sectors hiring the most remote network security engineers are Food & Beverage, Technology & Software, and Healthcare & Medical Services, based on current remote listings on Migrate Mate as of November 2026. These industries rely on distributed teams managing sensitive data and regulated infrastructure, making remote network security coverage a core operational need rather than an exception.
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