Cloud Network Operations Engineer - Remote​/Nationwide

Cloud Network Operations Engineer - Remote/Nationwide

Life insurance, paid holidays, sick time, tuition assistance, 401(k)

This is a remote based position. Applicants can be located nationwide.

About You

You are a person who is passionate about ensuring reliability, performance, security, and continuous improvement of cloud-native network infrastructure. We need someone who is an expert with cloud operations to support day-to-day system health, implement scalable cloud network solutions, and automate cloud network operations with a strong focus on Azure. In the role of Cloud Network Operations Engineer, you will be responsible for managing and securing cloud-based perimeter and internal segmentation using Palo Alto firewalls.

• Tell us about your experience with Cloud Network Operations Engineering.
• Are you a team player and a self-motivator?
• What is your experience with conducting business in a way that is credit to a company?
• We are counting on you to manage multiple projects using your problem-solving skills.
• We are looking for someone UNCOMMON. What is uncommon about you?

Are you highly committed? Are you team-oriented? Do you value professionalism, trust, honesty, and integrity? If so, we cannot wait to meet you.

About The Position

• Design, implement, and maintain cloud-native network architectures (VPCs, VNets, subnets, load balancers, transit gateways, etc.).
• Configure cloud routing, firewalls, network security groups, VPNs, and segmentation policies.
• Develop and maintain network diagrams, documentation, and cloud infrastructure standards.
• Support cloud-to-cloud networking, peering, and interservice communication across cloud regions and accounts/subscriptions.
• Cloud Operations & Monitoring
• Continuously monitor cloud network performance, availability, and endpoint health.
• Troubleshoot and resolve cloud networking issues to minimize downtime.
• Execute cloud change-control activities including upgrades, patches, and configuration updates.
• Participate in incident response, root-cause analysis, and long-term mitigation planning.
• Build automation and Infrastructure-as-Code tooling (Terraform, Bicep, Cloud Formation, Python, Power Shell) to streamline network operations.
• Optimize cloud networking performance, resiliency, and cost through proactive analysis and tuning.
• Implement automated monitoring, alerting, and self-healing workflows.
• Implement and enforce cloud networking security controls such as encryption, identity-based access policies, and zero-trust network configurations.
• Apply cloud provider security features (WAF, DDoS protection, Private Endpoints, Firewall/IDS/IPS).
• Participate in backup, failover, DR testing, and cloud-native continuity planning.
• Ensure compliance with cloud security best practices and regulatory or organizational requirements.
• Partner with Dev Ops, application, and security teams to support cloud deployments and network-dependent services.
• Assist in CI/CD cloud integration by enabling secure, efficient network pathways.
• Provide technical guidance, documentation, and mentoring to team members and stakeholders.
• Configure, manage, and maintain Palo Alto Next-Generation Firewalls (NGFW) within cloud environments, including policy creation, rule optimization, and secure traffic segmentation.
• Implement PAN-OS security features such as AppID, UserID, Content
  
  ID, SSL decryption, threat prevention, and URL filtering to secure cloud workloads.
• Manage Palo Alto Prisma Access or VM-Series firewalls deployed in Azure, ensuring scalable and resilient cloud firewall architectures.
• Monitor firewall logs, threat alerts, and network activity via Panorama or cloud-native monitoring tools to detect and remediate security risks.
• Collaborate with cloud security teams to design and enforce zero-trust network architectures, leveraging Palo Alto policy sets and microsegmentation strategies.
• Conduct regular firewall audits, rule cleanup, performance tuning, and compliance validation to maintain a secure cloud posture.
• Support incident response by analyzing traffic patterns, threat signatures, and security events captured by Palo Alto tools.

Minimum Requirements:

• Bachelor’s degree in IT, Computer Science, Networking,…