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Sr. Palo Alto Cloud Engineer # 26-17515
Job Location:
Job Location:
Columbia, SC - USA
Hourly Salary:
USD 80 - 82
Hourly Salary:
Posted:
8 September 2026 (3 hours ago)
Posted:
Application Deadline:
6 December 2026
Application Deadline:
Vacancies:
1 Vacancy
Vacancies:
Job Summary
Duration: 12 Months
Location: Hybrid Columbia SC (2 days in office 3 days remote).
Candidate Location: Candidate MUST be a NC GA SC resident and willing to relocate to SC prior to starting the role at their own expense. (Preference for resources local to South Carolina at the time of submission).
Scope:
Job Functions & Responsibilities:
Required skills (rank in order of importance):
Required Education/Certifications:
Preferred skills (rank in order of importance):
Preferred Certifications:
Additional skills/Duties:
About US Tech Solutions:
US Tech Solutions is a global staff augmentation firm providing a wide range of talent on-demand and total workforce solutions. To know more about US Tech Solutions please visit .
US Tech Solutions is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race colour religion sex sexual orientation gender identity national origin disability or status as a protected veteran.
AI Statement: By applying you acknowledge that AI-assisted tools may be used during hiring.
Location: Hybrid Columbia SC (2 days in office 3 days remote).
Candidate Location: Candidate MUST be a NC GA SC resident and willing to relocate to SC prior to starting the role at their own expense. (Preference for resources local to South Carolina at the time of submission).
Scope:
- The Sr. Palo Alto Cloud Engineer will collaborate with Product Owners Applications Owners Network and Security teams to design and deliver optimal solutions for large-scale app and infrastructure cloud solutions. Candidates should possess proficiency in both public and hybrid cloud models. Exceptional consulting skills and the ability to clearly derive desired states from customer requests are essential. The role also requires the ability to work with delivery teams. Importantly this role is hands-on in delivery requiring active involvement in the implementation and execution of security solutions.
- This position requires demonstrated proficiency in Palo Alto cloud firewalls with a similar level of expertise in cloud architecture and design.
Job Functions & Responsibilities:
- Design and deploy highly available scalable and secure cloud infrastructure with a focus on AWS and Clienture Cloud.
- Manage and deploy VM-Series Palo Alto firewalls in Clienture and AWS cloud.
- Manage and deploy F5 BIG-IP LTM and ASM in Clienture and AWS cloud.
- Analyze and resolve configuration issues in development test and production environments.
- Familiar with major security compliance frameworks and building effective monitoring logging and auditing of production systems to ensure compliance with mandated compliance policies (e.g. ARC-AMP (formerly known as MARS-E) NIST HIPAA PII SOX PCI CMMC CUI etc.).
- Experience implementing secure (zero trust) infrastructure in cloud.
- Security experience with state and local government customers
Required skills (rank in order of importance):
- 10 years experience in Network Security and Engineering
- Minimum 5 years hands-on experience designing deploying scaling upgrading troubleshooting and optimizing palo alto VM-Series Firewalls in both AWS and Clienture cloud environments.
- Experience with Panorama Management security policy design threat prevention tuning and log analysis required.
- must demonstrate ability to architect zero-trust controls using Palo Alto Technology.
- 5 years experience in deploying configuring and maintaining BIG-IP F5 LTM
Required Education/Certifications:
- College degree or 10 years of equivalent experience as a palo alto cloud engineer
- Must hold Palo alto AWS or Clienture certification
Preferred skills (rank in order of importance):
- Palo Alto Firewalls
- F5 LTM
- F5 ASM
- F5 I-Rules
- INFOBLOX DDI
- Forescout
- OPSWAT METADEFENDER/ICAP
- Big-IP F5 XC
- Prisma Cloud
- Cisco Umbrella
Preferred Certifications:
- PCNSA PCNSE
- SC100 - Microsoft Cybersecurity Architect
- AWS Certified Cloud Solutions Architect
Additional skills/Duties:
- Excellent communication skills both written and verbal.
- Self-starter
- explicit experience in panorama templates and device groups global protect in cloud and high availability VPN/Traffic routing on VM-series
- Experience designing and maintaining infrastructure in AWS/ClientURE
- Cloud Security design operations and automation experience
- Documentation of security tools deployment configuration incident reports etc.
About US Tech Solutions:
US Tech Solutions is a global staff augmentation firm providing a wide range of talent on-demand and total workforce solutions. To know more about US Tech Solutions please visit .
US Tech Solutions is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race colour religion sex sexual orientation gender identity national origin disability or status as a protected veteran.
AI Statement: By applying you acknowledge that AI-assisted tools may be used during hiring.
Required Experience:
Senior IC
