Principal Network Engineer (Prisma)

This range is provided by Eliassen Group. Your actual pay will be based on your skills and experience — talk with your recruiter to learn more.

Base pay range

$91.00/hr - $95.00/hr

Principal - Recruiting & Hiring Consultant - Eliassen Group

• Position: Principal Network Engineer
• Requires onsite work in Washington DC office
• Requires 15+ years of professional experience
• Requires experience with Prisma
• Requires certification in AWS or Azure
• Hiring in October 2025 or November 2025

Top Qualifications, Skills, Experience or Certifications:

• 10+ years of experience deploying/configuring workloads within AWS Commercial Cloud using the Console, CLI, and scripting methods, 15+ years experience in technology
• Solid experience with PrismaCloud platform and familiarity with PaloAlto services
• Demonstrated understanding of compute, network, and storage principals
• Demonstrated proficiency managing large Organization with Organization Units, Policies, Configs to maintain compliance
• AWS Solutions Architect Professional (or other AWS or Azure certification)

Job Role Specific Requirements:

• Solid experience with PrismaCloud platform and familiarity with PaloAlto services
• Support strategic cloud initiatives, such as TIC 3.0, Zero Trust Architectures, and DevSecOps by providing architectural guidance and hands on implementation approach
• Identify and communicate opportunities for improving agency security posture within cloud environments
• Collaborate with external development teams to validate solution architecture within agency cloud environment
• Identify opportunities to periodically review and improve Service Control Policies, Configs, remediations
• Monitor alerts for security upgrades and risks as well as notifications from AWS and Azure
• Design and buildout of AWS environments using the console, CLI, and Infrastructure as Code
• Deploy CloudFormation IAC stacks/sets across Accounts
• Support all tiers of applications deployed in the cloud, configuring network, cloud native services, infrastructure, and privileges for development teams (AWS Accounts, IAM Users and Roles, VPCs, cloud native services)
• Identify opportunities for optimizing cloud consumption by the agency
• Support migration of on-premise workloads to cloud following agency governance and reference architectures
• Recommend enterprise design improvements to comply with Federal policies and standards

Preferred skills and qualifications:

• Experience implementing, managing, and supporting security products to protect workloads in AWS
• Good understanding of FedRAMP services and best practices for their consumption by application workloads – examples include API Gateway, Lambda functions, Cognito, AWS Code Commit, and container services
• Experience assessing, customizing, troubleshooting, optimizing, and maintaining current and emerging technologies, platforms, and applications to help ensure greater security and efficiencies, inclusive of containers
• Demonstrated understanding of cloud engineering methods, applications, and best practices across cloud service providers.
• Demonstrated proficiency with implementing and managing AWS services via AWS Console or CLI of AWS accounts, IAM users, IAM roles, VPCs, load balancers.
• Experience managing AWS Public and GovCloud across regions.
• Experience with deploying stack sets and using AWS Control Tower.
• Good knowledge of GovCloud organizations provision accounts using Compliance Framework.
• Proficiency in automating processes with Terraform, AWS CloudFormation, Packer, PowerShell, or Python, including use of remote APIs
• Experience with cloud orchestration tools and continuous delivery processes to deploy and manage cloud infrastructure for customers to consume

Due to client requirements, applicants must be willing and able to work on a w2 basis. For our w2 consultants, we offer a great benefits package that includes Medical, Dental, and Vision benefits, 401k with company matching, and life insurance.

Rate: $90 - $95 / hr. w2

Skills, experience, and other compensable factors will be considered when determining pay rate. The pay range provided in this posting reflects a W2 hourly rate; other employment options may be available that may result in pay outside of the provided range.

W2 employees of Eliassen Group who are regularly scheduled to work 30 or more hours per week are eligible for the following benefits: medical (choice of 3 plans), dental, vision, pre-tax accounts, other voluntary benefits including life and disability insurance, 401(k) with match, and sick time if required by law in the worked-in state/locality.