Data Security Analyst

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🇺🇸 United States – Remote

💵 $125k - $150k / year

⏰ Full Time

🟠 Senior

🔴 Lead

🔐 Security Analyst

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1001 - 5000 employees

Founded 2010

💼 Consulting

🏛️ Government

🔒 Cybersecurity

Consulting • Government • Cybersecurity

GovCIO is a technology company that specializes in providing digital solutions and IT services to government agencies. Their focus is on transforming public sector operations through innovative technology, thereby enhancing the efficiency and effectiveness of government services.

📋 Description

• Architect, deploy, administer, and optimize Palo Alto Networks next-generation firewalls across data center, campus, branch, cloud, and remote-access environments • Lead centralized firewall management using Palo Alto Panorama • Design and maintain least-privilege, application-aware security policies and associated security controls • Lead operational use of the Palo Alto Networks Strata portfolio • Deploy and operationalize Cortex capabilities for security analytics, detection, investigation, automation, orchestration, and response • Investigate security alerts, anomalous traffic, malware activity, policy violations, data-exfiltration indicators, and firewall-related incidents • Develop and tune detections, correlation logic, dashboards, investigations, and response playbooks • Build and maintain secure network segmentation strategies, including zone-based architecture and microsegmentation • Partner with Cisco network engineering teams on routing, switching, VPN, wireless, identity, and network-access controls • Support Cisco security technologies and enterprise network services • Review, approve, implement, and document firewall and network-security change requests • Perform firewall rulebase reviews, access recertifications, risk assessments, policy cleanup, and security-control validation • Maintain network security diagrams, data-flow documentation, firewall standards, runbooks, architecture decisions, and escalation procedures • Conduct vulnerability and configuration assessments and validate remediation • Collaborate with Security Operations, Incident Response, Cloud Engineering, Infrastructure, Application Development, GRC, and Audit teams • Provide technical mentorship and lead complex troubleshooting and root-cause analysis • Evaluate emerging technologies, platform features, and threat trends and recommend improvements to the enterprise security roadmap

🎯 Requirements

• Bachelor's with 12+ years (or commensurate experience) • 10+ years of progressive experience in cybersecurity, network security, security engineering, or security operations, including substantial hands-on firewall administration and incident-response experience • Deep expertise administering Palo Alto Networks next-generation firewalls in complex enterprise environments • Advanced experience with Palo Alto Panorama, including centralized policy administration, device-group design, templates, HA workflows, logging, upgrades, troubleshooting, and configuration governance • Strong practical knowledge of Palo Alto Strata security capabilities, including NGFW architecture, App-ID, User-ID, Content-ID, security profiles, decryption, segmentation, and policy optimization • Strong experience using Palo Alto Cortex products or related XDR/EDR/SOAR/SIEM technologies • Ability to investigate and resolve complex network-security issues using packet captures, firewall traffic logs, threat logs, system logs, routing information, and endpoint telemetry • Strong Cisco networking background, including TCP/IP, DNS, DHCP, NAT, routing, switching, VLANs, VRFs, BGP/OSPF fundamentals, VPNs, network segmentation, and high-availability concepts • Experience supporting Cisco Secure Firewall/Firepower, ASA, ISE, Secure Network Analytics, Catalyst switching, Nexus switching, enterprise routing, and wireless platforms • Thorough understanding of zero trust, least privilege, defense in depth, identity-aware access, network segmentation, threat prevention, encryption, logging, and vulnerability management • Experience with NIST Cybersecurity Framework, NIST SP 800-53, CIS Controls, ISO 27001, PCI DSS, HIPAA, SOX, or similar requirements • Strong written and verbal communication skills • Must be able to attain and maintain an AOUSC Public Trust • Master's degree in Cybersecurity, Information Technology, Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field (preferred) • Palo Alto Networks certifications such as PCNSA or PCNSE (preferred) • Cisco certifications such as CCNA, CCNP Enterprise, CCNP Security, CCIE Enterprise Infrastructure, or CCIE Security (preferred) • Experience with cloud networking and security in AWS, Microsoft Azure, and/or Google Cloud Platform • Experience with infrastructure-as-code, automation, or scripting using Python, PowerShell, Ansible, Terraform, REST APIs, or Panorama APIs • Experience with SIEM platforms, log pipelines, threat intelligence, vulnerability-management tools, and network detection and response capabilities • Experience leading security projects, technical workstreams, audit remediation, control modernization, or enterprise-wide firewall migrations

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