Remote Network Security Specialist Jobs
Remote network security specialist jobs are in active demand across the U.S., with remote-first firms and distributed security teams hiring for roles that protect cloud infrastructure, enterprise networks, and sensitive data. Industries from financial services to healthcare technology regularly post remote openings. Employers hiring remotely right now include Noblis, M&T Bank, and PDI Technologies. Scan the live roles below and apply to whichever ones fit.
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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 specialist jobs.
- Three or more years of hands-on experience in network security or a closely related role
- Proficiency with SIEM platforms such as Splunk, Microsoft Sentinel, or IBM QRadar
- Industry certification such as CompTIA Security+, CISSP, CEH, or equivalent
- Experience configuring and managing firewalls, intrusion detection systems, and VPNs
- Knowledge of NIST, ISO 27001, or other security frameworks and compliance standards
- Bachelor's degree in cybersecurity, computer science, information technology, or a related field
Tips for Your Remote Network Security Specialist Job Search
Apply early to remote roles that fit
Migrate Mate lists remote network security specialist openings from across the U.S. in one place. Search for roles that match your certifications and experience level and apply directly while postings are fresh, since competitive remote openings close quickly.
Show async incident documentation in your portfolio
Remote security teams depend on written runbooks, incident postmortems, and clear async communication. Share examples of documentation you've written, whether from a home lab, a CTF walkthrough, or a prior role, to prove you can operate without real-time hand-holding.
Highlight remote-ready security tool experience
Name the specific tools you use daily: cloud SIEM platforms, endpoint detection and response tools, VPN administration, and ticketing systems. Remote employers want to know you can plug into a distributed security stack on day one without an in-person setup.
Prepare for remote-format technical interviews
Remote network security interviews frequently include screen-share threat-hunting exercises, live firewall rule reviews, or async take-home scenarios. Practice walking through your analysis out loud over video and writing clear, structured answers to scenario-based questions sent by email or shared document.
Remote Network Security Specialist Jobs: Frequently Asked Questions
How do I get a remote network security specialist job?
Target companies with distributed security teams and remote-first hiring cultures, including cloud-native technology firms, managed security service providers, and financial technology companies. Remote employers screen heavily for self-direction, clear written communication, and the ability to triage incidents without in-person escalation. Certifications like CISSP, CompTIA Security+, or CEH signal readiness. Candidates who can demonstrate async documentation habits and experience with remote SIEM and VPN tools stand out.
Which companies hire remote network security specialists?
Companies hiring remote network security specialists right now include Noblis, M&T Bank, and PDI Technologies, based on current remote listings on Migrate Mate as of November 2026. Remote-first technology firms, managed security service providers, and distributed enterprise teams across financial services and healthcare are among the most consistent employers for this role.
Can you get a remote network security specialist job with no experience?
Yes, but remote entry-level roles are harder to land because employers expect you to work independently from day one with minimal oversight. Smaller remote-first companies and managed security service providers occasionally hire entry-level candidates. Building a home lab, earning foundational certifications like CompTIA Security+, and contributing to open-source security projects gives hiring managers something concrete to evaluate instead of a work history.
Do you need a degree for remote network security specialist jobs?
Not always. Many remote employers weigh certifications, demonstrated technical skills, and a provable history of securing real environments more heavily than a formal degree. Credentials like CISSP, CEH, or CompTIA CySA+ carry significant weight. Candidates who can show hands-on results through a home lab, prior incident response work, or security tooling experience often compete effectively without a four-year degree.
Which industries hire the most remote network security specialists?
Most remote network security specialist openings sit in Food & Beverage, Technology & Software, and Healthcare & Medical Services, per current remote listings on Migrate Mate as of November 2026. These sectors rely on distributed teams protecting sensitive data and regulated systems, making remote network security specialists a core part of their ongoing security operations.
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