Senior Manager, Infrastructure Engineering

As a Sr. Engineering Manager, you will serve as the strategic technical and people leader for Nike’s Core Infrastructure Engineering Organization, which deals with enterprise firewall architecture, implementation, and operations. You will drive an engineering team which designs and deploys scalable, secure, and resilient firewall solutions across global environments, ensuring alignment with Zero Trust principles, compliance frameworks, and business continuity goals. This role is pivotal in shaping the future of the organization's network security posture.

The candidate shall have significant enterprise level Security acumen, experience working on Palo Alto Next Generation Firewalls, and strong people leadership experience.

Bachelor’s degree in computer science, Engineering, or a related technical field.

12+ years in network security engineering with a focus on enterprise firewall platforms.

Deep expertise in Palo Alto Networks technologies and HA firewall architectures.

Strong knowledge of routing/switching protocols (BGP, VRF, MPLS), wireless, and SD-WAN.

Proven experience with SSL decryption, DLP, and Zero Trust implementations.

Familiarity with compliance frameworks such as NIST, ISO 27001, and GDPR.

Preferably looking for candidates who have hands exposure with Software Engineering and programming background and moved towards Core Network and Infrastructure Engineering domain.

Proficiency in scripting and automation (Python, Terraform, Jenkins).

Experience with agentic / generative AI, AI/ML technologies, or a strong interest and demonstrated eagerness to learn and apply AI driven solutions to improve engineering productivity and system outcomes, and operational efficiency

Understanding of network design and operations across full stack technologies