Optiv
Principal Palo Alto Engineer| Remote, USA
Remote Principal Network Security Engineer role with clear candidate location fit.
PostedJun 18, 2026
Eligible countries1 accepted country
Seniority signalSenior
Work settingRemote
Accepted candidate locations
USA
Role overview
Principal Palo Alto Engineer| Remote, USA
Requirements and responsibilities
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- Able to solo deliver or act as "point" for complex projects/requests.
- Acts as technical escalation point to assist junior engineers.
- Lead in capacity planning and HW specification recommendation efforts.
- Lead in all deployment and management activities, connector configuration, custom rule development, workflow configuration and development, and third-party system integration.
- Lead User Acceptance Testing and bug-related engineering efforts.
- Provide knowledge transfer and post production support activities as necessary.
- Effective team communicator.
- Maintain professional and technical knowledge by attending educational workshops; reviewing professional publications; establishing personal networks; participating in professional associations such as ISSA.
- Obtain and maintain top tier vendor certification and accreditation.
- Complete administrative project tasks like time and expense entry, status reporting, and project completion reporting.
- Acts as contributor in Optiv communities for solutions of focus.
- Develop and maintain runbooks/procedural documentation.
- U.S. Citizenship required. This position also requires a CJIS Background Check and Fingerprinting as part of the onboarding process.
- A current PCNSE certification is required for this role.
- Hands-on experience implementing Palo Alto, including Prisma Access, Prisma Cloud and optionally Prisma Cortex.
- Hands on experience with cloud providers specifically AWS, Azure and optionally GCP
- Minimum eight (8) years of hands-on experience with Palo Alto
- Minimum six (6) years of professional Information Security experience in a consulting, vendor or enterprise-level role.
- InfoSec/Cyber implementation/practical experience
- Fully qualified/certified on 1 or more technologies
- Experience in a customer facing/consulting capacity
- Demonstrated ability to lead junior colleagues
What you can expect from Optiv
- A company committed to our inclusive value through our Employee Resource Groups
- Work/life balance
- Professional training resources
- Creative problem-solving and the ability to tackle unique, complex projects
- Volunteer Opportunities. “Optiv Chips In” encourages employees to volunteer and engage with their teams and communities.
- The ability and technology necessary to productively work remotely/from home (where applicable)
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