Cloud Network Operations Engineer - Remote/Nationwide

About You

You are a person who is passionate about ensuring reliability, performance, security, and continuous improvement of cloudnative network infrastructure. We need someone who is an expert with cloud operations to support daytoday 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 cloudbased 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 cloudnative 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 cloudtocloud 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 changecontrol activities including upgrades, patches, and configuration updates.
• Participate in incident response, rootcause analysis, and longterm mitigation planning.
• Build automation and InfrastructureasCode tooling (Terraform, Bicep, CloudFormation, Python, PowerShell) to streamline network operations.
• Optimize cloud networking performance, resiliency, and cost through proactive analysis and tuning.
• Implement automated monitoring, alerting, and selfhealing workflows.
• Implement and enforce cloud networking security controls such as encryption, identitybased access policies, and zerotrust network configurations.
• Apply cloud provider security features (WAF, DDoS protection, Private Endpoints, Firewall/IDS/IPS).
• Participate in backup, failover, DR testing, and cloudnative continuity planning.
• Ensure compliance with cloud security best practices and regulatory or organizational requirements.
• Partner with DevOps, application, and security teams to support cloud deployments and networkdependent 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 NextGeneration Firewalls (NGFW) within cloud environments, including policy creation, rule optimization, and secure traffic segmentation.
• Implement PANOS security features such as AppID, UserID, ContentID, SSL decryption, threat prevention, and URL filtering to secure cloud workloads.
• Manage Palo Alto Prisma Access or VMSeries firewalls deployed in Azure, ensuring scalable and resilient cloud firewall architectures.
• Monitor firewall logs, threat alerts, and network activity via Panorama or cloudnative monitoring tools to detect and remediate security risks.
• Collaborate with cloud security teams to design and enforce zerotrust 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, Cybersecurity, or equivalent experience.
• Minimum of 3 years working in cloud networking, cloud operations, or cloud engineering.
• Strong understanding of cloud networking concepts (VPC/VNet design, peering, load balancing, DNS, IP addressing, firewalls).
• Experience with IaC and scripting (Terraform, Bicep, Python, Bash, PowerShell).
• Experience with cloud platforms (AWS, Azure)
• Familiarity with cloud IAM, certificate management, and secure cloud architecture.

Preferred Requirements:

• 6+ years working in cloud networking, cloud operations, or cloud engineering.
• Cloud certifications (Azure Network Engineer Associate or Azure Solutions Architect Expert (networking focused architecture exposure)
• Palo Alto Networks certifications, (Palo Alto Networks Certified Network Security Administrator or Palo Alto Networks Certified Network Security Engineer)
• Experience designing or operating large scale cloud networks with multiple regions or accounts/subscriptions.
• Background supporting latency sensitive, distributed, or high availability cloud applications.
• Experience with container networking (AKS, EKS, GKE)

About Us

You are uncommon. We are, too. We are looking for people to help us in our mission of working hard at lowering healthcare administrative costs for federal government agencies, payers, and providers. At Signature, our mission is to improve the health of our clients' business and make the lives of the people we work with better. As we continue to experience exponential growth, we are looking for uncommon individuals to enhance our vision. We will continue to accomplish our mission by leading with our values of Passion, Courage, Integrity, and Respect in all interactions, making us a consistent annual Best Places to Work organization. We need uncommon leaders with uncommon qualities to shape our uncommon culture and achieve our uncommon mission.

About the Benefits

When you are a member of Signature Performance, you are a part of a solutions-based organization where the values of passion, integrity, courage, and respect are the driving forces behind all our decision-making. We trust you to do important work and bring the best version of yourself to work every day, so we want to help you achieve a work-life balance while consistently challenging yourself. Signature believes in fully developing each one of our Associates. Our performance-driven philosophy boasts competitive pay and additional position specific incentives, where world-class training and development, resources, and events drive our award-winning culture where everyone thrives.

• Health Insurance
• Fully Paid Life Insurance
• Fully Paid Short- & Long-Term Disability
• Paid Vacation
• Paid Sick Leave
• Paid Holidays
• Professional Development and Tuition Assistance Program
• 401(k) Program with Employer Match

• U.S. Citizenship or naturalized citizenship is required for this position.
• All work on all positions at Signature Performance must be completed in the continental United States, Alaska, or Hawaii.