Palo Alto - Consultant (TS/SCI CI Poly)

Seamless Migration•Colorado Springs, CO

10h•Onsite

About The Position

Seamless Migration is a Service-Disabled Veteran-Owned Small Business (SDVOSB) started in 2021 with the purpose of enabling businesses and organizations through automation. Our goal is to help organizations discover, implement, and maintain solutions which evolve and mature with their ever-changing business needs. We believe in applying agile methodologies in all aspects of our business practices and use these methods to ensure effective results for our clients. Seamless Migration is seeking a career and customer-oriented Palo Alto Networks Consultant, to join our team.

Requirements

5 years of network security, firewall engineering, network engineering, or related infrastructure experience.
2 years of experience with Palo Alto Networks next generation firewalls and PAN-OS.
Experience with firewall policy design, review, implementation, and optimization.
Experience planning and supporting firewall installation, configuration, migration, and production deployment activities.
Experience with PAN-OS upgrade planning, testing, implementation, and validation.
Experience supporting product licensing, feature enablement, and deployment requirements.
Experience troubleshooting critical firewall, routing, policy, connectivity, and performance issues.
Experience working within formal change control and production deployment processes.
Experience developing technical documentation, runbooks, reports, test results, and knowledge transfer materials.
Strong customer communication, technical writing, collaboration, and problem-solving skills.
Active security clearance and site access as required by the customer.
TS/SCI W/ CI Poly (existing clearance required to start)

Responsibilities

Support next generation firewall planning, deployment, migration, optimization, and operational integration activities.
Provide advisory and hands-on technical support throughout the engagement lifecycle, including requirements planning, installation, configuration, migration preparation, production deployment, issue resolution, maintenance, documentation, stakeholder communication, reporting, and knowledge transfer.
Provide consulting and advisory support for Palo Alto Networks next generation firewall initiatives.
Assess customer requirements and develop deployment, migration, upgrade, and operational integration plans.
Support product deployment requirements, architecture alignment, licensing, feature enablement, and implementation readiness.
Install and configure Palo Alto Networks firewalls and supporting platform components.
Configure and review security policies, objects, zones, interfaces, routing, network address translation, logging, and administrative access.
Support migration planning, policy conversion, configuration validation, cutover preparation, and rollback planning.
Provide production deployment support, post-deployment validation, stabilization, and optimization.
Provide PAN-OS upgrade planning, compatibility review, implementation guidance, testing, and validation support.
Troubleshoot critical firewall, connectivity, policy, routing, performance, licensing, and feature issues.
Support issue escalation, root cause analysis, corrective actions, and technical resolution activities.
Ensure implementation activities follow approved change control, security, and operational procedures.
Develop deployment plans, configuration documentation, test plans, validation results, status reports, and operational runbooks.
Communicate technical status, risks, dependencies, and recommended actions to customer stakeholders.
Provide operational guidance and knowledge transfer to network and cybersecurity personnel.