Sr. Engineer - Network Engineering

Provide senior (Level 3) firewall architecture and engineering expertise to large, complex enterprise LAN and WAN client in predominantly Palo Alto environment.

· Security Architecture and Design: Develop and implement robust security architectures and frameworks to protect our infrastructure and applications.

· Performance Tuning: Optimize firewall performance, ensuring high availability, scalability, and minimal impact on network traffic.

· Incident Response: Investigate and respond to security incidents related to firewall breaches, performing root cause analysis and remediation.

· Policy and Rule Management: Create and enforce firewall policies and access control rules, regularly reviewing and updating them to address new threats and changes in network topology.

· Security Best Practices: Advocate for and enforce security best practices across all stages of the development lifecycle.

· Collaboration: Work closely with development teams to integrate security features and practices into new and existing applications and systems.

· Documentation and Reporting: Maintain comprehensive documentation for security procedures, incidents, and system configurations. Provide regular reports and updates to stakeholders.

· Compliance: Ensure that security practices comply with industry standards, regulations, and company policies.

· Review scripting, planning and execution of Firewall (Palo Alto) Change Management process

· Investigate firewall issues / incidents and bring to resolution within stated SLA parameters

· Working with Incident, Problem, and Change Management

· Provide Root Cause Analysis (RCA) to operations team and customers upon request

· Provide technical leadership (both verbal and written) for Incident and Change – firewall related

· Able to work on network drawings with Visio

· Work and collaborate with other app teams

· Good understanding of BGP / EIRGP routing, NAT/PAT, VPN, and firewall technologies

Education: 4-year Bachelor's Degree or equivalent experience, preferably in Computer Science, Information Systems or Engineering (or) Three years of College or Technical School resulting in an Associate’s Degree or equivalent

· Required Certifications or equivalent experience: Palo Alto Certifications

· Additional desirable certifications / equivalent experience:

· CCNA Enterprise Route/Switch Other Security Certification

· Network or Firewall build and engineering experience and expertise in a variety of predominantly in Palo Alto firewalls, Panaroma, PRISMA cloud, Cisco LAN and WAN in large, complex, enterprise environment

· Experience implementing/managing firewall rules, policies, PAN-OS upgrades etc.,

· Experience using network analysis, management, and performance monitoring tools to plan for growth, diagnose problems and determine source

· Working on comprehensive projects in complex networking / VPN environment with IPSEC, Meet Me and NAT

Partial US EST hours

May require late hours and weekends to complete assignments and projects.