Network Security Team Lead

Job overview

The Network Security Team Lead role is onsite in Dallas, TX, with a stated rate of $125–$150 per hour for W-2 consultants. Eliassen Group is a strategic consulting firm providing technology, business advisory, and life sciences solutions. The role leads the design and migration of a Palo Alto Panorama management environment for an estate of approximately 350 firewalls. It combines architecture, migration-wave leadership, hands-on change-window work, policy cleanup, and documentation to deliver a validated cutover and client handoff.

What you'll do

• Design the Panorama hierarchy, including device groups, templates, policy structure, administrative roles, and logging
• size and specify the deployment
• inventory the firewall estate and map configuration archetypes
• define onboarding checks, validation, and rollback
• lead migration waves and enforce the runbook
• work as part of a two-person change-window pair
• migrate and clean up policies
• manage parallel running and cutover
• hand over complete runbooks.

What we're looking for

Skills & competencies

network security

team lead

palo alto panorama

pan-os

firewall migration

350 firewalls

dallas tx

onsite

$125–$150/hr w-2

policy migration

change windows

eliassen group

Work arrangement

• Weekend coverage required

Benefits & perks

• W-2 consultants may receive medical, dental, vision, 401(k) matching, and life insurance benefits.

Why this role

Requires production Panorama hierarchy design at 250+ devices and leadership of network security delivery at comparable scale; PCNSE or equivalent depth required.

About the employer

Eliassen Group is hiring for this role. Industry: Computer Systems Design Services. Sector: 54.