Network Security Consultant

Long View Systems • Toronto, ON

2d • CA$90 - CA$110 • Onsite

About The Position

Long View is seeking an energetic and client-oriented Network Security Consultant for their Toronto branch. This is a 6-month contract with a possibility of extension. The role involves leading the migration of legacy firewall estates to cloud-based Palo Alto firewalls and rolling out advanced security capabilities at scale. It is a hands-on engineering position focused on designing, migrating, and operating next-gen firewalls natively in the cloud.

Requirements

• Strong, demonstrable expertise with Palo Alto Networks firewalls in AWS / cloud environments
• Strong experience with Infrastructure as Code in AWS and experience building and deploying firewalls from a Palo Alto in AWS
• Proven track record of migrations from Check Point (or similar platforms) to cloud-based Palo Alto firewalls
• Hands-on experience enabling and rolling out TLS inspection at scale.
• Solid understanding of AWS networking and cloud security architecture
• Experience designing for high availability and scale in the cloud.
• Advanced enterprise routing experience with BGP, EIGRP, OSPF, route redistribution, route filtering, summarization, and path selection
• Strong understanding of hybrid cloud connectivity, including AWS Direct Connect, Azure ExpressRoute, VPN, private peering, and redundant circuit design
• Experience designing and supporting AWS Transit Gateway, including VPC attachments, route tables, segmentation, and centralized inspection patterns
• Hands-on knowledge of Azure hub-and-spoke networking, ExpressRoute gateways, route propagation, UDRs, NSGs, and firewall integration
• Ability to troubleshoot complex routing issues across on-premises data centers, cloud networks, firewalls, SD-WAN, and VPN tunnels
• Strong skills in high availability network design, failover testing, resilient routing, and multi-region/multi-cloud connectivity
• Automation skills, Ansible, IaC, Terraform

Nice To Haves

• Palo Alto Networks certification (PCNSE)
• AWS certification (e.g., Solutions Architect or Advanced Networking).
• Experience with Infrastructure-as-Code (Terraform / CloudFormation) for firewall deployment

Responsibilities

• Design and execute migrations from Check Point (or similar platforms) to cloud-based Palo Alto Networks firewalls (VM-Series / Cloud NGFW) on AWS
• Architect and deploy Palo Alto firewalls in AWS, including high-availability and scalable, multi-account/multi-region designs
• Deploy firewalls using Infrastructure as Code using strict standards
• Enable, tune, and roll out TLS/SSL inspection and decryption across enterprise workloads
• Implement and operationalize advanced capabilities — App-ID, WildFire, threat prevention, and related Next-Gen features in the cloud
• Integrate firewall deployments with AWS networking constructs (VPCs, Transit Gateway, Gateway Load Balancer, routing)
• Act as technical lead on migration engagements: requirements, architecture, delivery, and cutover

Benefits

• Great people and culture
• Interesting Work – Be part of exciting projects while accessing all the latest technologies
• Flexible Environment – A workplace that values the importance of flexibility for personal/professional growth, happiness, and wellness

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level
• Education Level: No Education Listed