Remote Senior Network Security Engineer Jobs
Remote Senior Network Security Engineer jobs are open across the U.S. at remote-first firms, distributed tech teams, and enterprises in finance, healthcare, and defense contracting. 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 senior network security engineer jobs.
- Seven or more years of hands-on network security engineering experience in enterprise or critical infrastructure environments
- Deep expertise in firewalls, intrusion detection and prevention systems, and network access control tools
- CISSP, CCNP Security, or CCIE Security certification is strongly preferred or required
- Experience designing and implementing zero-trust network architecture and microsegmentation strategies
- Proficiency with SIEM platforms such as Splunk, Microsoft Sentinel, or IBM QRadar for threat monitoring
- Bachelor's degree in computer science, cybersecurity, information systems, or a closely related field
Tips for Your Remote Senior Network Security Engineer Job Search
Apply early to remote roles that fit
Migrate Mate lists remote senior network security engineer openings from across the U.S. in one place, so you can find roles that match your skills and apply directly. Remote postings move fast, and early applicants get more attention from hiring managers.
Document your remote incident response process
Remote employers want proof you can manage a security incident without walking to someone's desk. Write up two or three real incidents you handled, including your detection method, containment steps, and communication approach, and keep them ready to share.
Show async communication fluency in your application
Distributed security teams run on written communication. Use your cover letter and any take-home assessments to demonstrate clear, concise technical writing. Employers screening for remote fit will weigh how well you explain complex security decisions in writing.
Highlight cloud and zero-trust architecture experience
Remote senior network security engineer roles concentrate in organizations running cloud-native or hybrid environments. Lead your resume with hands-on experience in AWS, Azure, or GCP security controls, zero-trust frameworks, and identity-based access management to match what distributed teams are actively screening for.
Remote Senior Network Security Engineer Jobs: Frequently Asked Questions
How do I get a remote senior network security engineer job?
Remote senior network security engineer roles go to candidates who can demonstrate self-direction, clear written communication, and the ability to triage incidents without relying on in-person escalation. Remote-first firms and distributed security teams screen heavily for async collaboration skills, proficiency with cloud security platforms, and experience managing zero-trust architectures independently. Certifications like CISSP or CCNP Security, combined with documented remote project ownership, give candidates a clear edge.
Which companies hire remote senior network security engineers?
Employers currently hiring remote senior network security engineers include Noblis, M&T Bank, and PDI Technologies, per current remote listings on Migrate Mate as of November 2026. Remote-first technology companies, managed security service providers, and distributed enterprise teams in finance and healthcare are among the most consistent sources of fully remote openings for this role.
Can you get a remote senior network security engineer job with no experience?
Yes, but remote entry into this role is harder because you're expected to work independently from day one without on-site mentorship. Remote-first companies and smaller distributed teams are more open to candidates who show hands-on lab work, open-source contributions, or self-built home lab documentation. A strong portfolio of real configurations, threat analyses, or incident response writeups can open doors that a blank resume won't.
Do you need a degree for remote senior network security engineer jobs?
Not always. Remote employers weigh demonstrated skills, active certifications like CISSP, CISM, or CompTIA Security+, and verifiable work output more heavily than a four-year degree. A candidate who can show firewall rule management, SIEM tuning, or cloud security architecture in a portfolio is competitive against degree holders, particularly at remote-first firms focused on practical capability over credentials.
Which industries hire the most remote senior network security engineers?
The sectors hiring the most remote senior 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 protecting sensitive data and critical infrastructure, which makes fully remote senior security roles a practical and common arrangement rather than an exception.
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