Sr. Security Engineer - Southeast region

GuidePoint Security is hiring a Senior Security Engineer to deliver complex network security engagements, primarily in security architecture and advisory, firewall security, and SASE/SSE. The role leads architecture, assessment, design, implementation, and pre-sales scoping while supporting clients and mentoring engineers.

Responsibilities:

• Lead architecture-level design and advisory engagements including security architecture reviews, Zero Trust strategy, and vendor-neutral roadmaps translating client requirements into defensible solution designs and serving as the practice’s senior advisory presence (Security Architecture & Advisory)
• Conduct assessments, architecture reviews, and technology evaluations that produce risk findings and prioritized security roadmaps, identifying natural next engagements across the lifecycle (Security Architecture & Advisory)
• Independently deliver firewall and perimeter engagements end to end design, configure, and deploy next-generation firewall and secure-infrastructure solutions on Palo Alto Networks and Fortinet platforms, owning technical quality (Network Security & Firewall)
• Lead firewall policy optimization, migration, and lifecycle engagements, applying delivery standards that protect margin and quality (Network Security & Firewall)
• Support secure access and cloud-edge solutions SASE/SSE, ZTNA, and VPN-to-ZTNA migrations for distributed and remote-work environments as a secondary delivery focus (SASE/SSE)
• Provide pre-sales technical leadership: lead scoping of engagements, define assumptions, level of effort, deliverables, and acceptance criteria to protect margin and prevent scope creep
• Serve as a senior technical point of contact on assigned engagements; mentor and cross-train Associate and mid-level Security Engineers as pillar sub-team’s form
• Enforce delivery discipline: adhere to practice playbooks, change-control, and project-health standards, and escalate delivery blockers immediately
• Maintain a target 80% billable utilization while investing the remaining 20% in enablement, certifications, pre-sales and scoping support, and practice development

Requirements:

• 5–8 years of progressive experience in network security engineering and consulting, with demonstrated independent, multi-pillar delivery
• Deep, hands-on expertise with Palo Alto Networks and Fortinet platforms (firewall/NGFW design, configuration, and deployment)
• Demonstrated ability to lead security architecture and advisory engagements, including risk assessments, roadmaps, and technology evaluations
• Experience providing pre-sales technical leadership and scoping complex, multi-pillar engagements
• Working proficiency designing and deploying secure-access/cloud-edge solutions (SASE/SSE, ZTNA) as a secondary delivery area
• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Security, a related technical field, or equivalent professional experience
• Embraces emerging technologies, including AI tools, to work smarter, solve problems, and drive better business outcomes
• Must hold or obtain, within 90 days of hire, at least one professional-level certification on a primary platform (e.g., Palo Alto PCNSE or Fortinet NSE 4)
• Applicants must be authorized to work for any employer in the U.S
• We are unable to sponsor or take over sponsorship of an employment visa for this role
• Palo Alto Networks certifications (e.g., PCNSE, PCNSA)
• Fortinet certifications (e.g., NSE 4–7 / Fortinet Certified Solution Specialist)
• Industry architecture or security certifications (e.g., CISSP, CCSP, SABSA, TOGAF)
• Secure-access/cloud-edge certifications (e.g., Zscaler ZDTA/ZCCP, Netskope NCCP)
• Experience leading security architecture and Zero Trust programs for strategic accounts
• Prior consulting or professional-services delivery experience with client-facing pre-sales and scoping
• Experience mentoring junior engineers and contributing to practice playbooks and enablement