Palo Alto Engineer - Urgent Role

Palo Alto Engineer
Location: Houston
Schedule: Hybrid 2 days onsite

Main qualifications and responsibilities:
• US Citizen
• Long-tenured roles at large enterprises
• Large enterprise Palo Alto experience - over 30 FWs
• Experience in host internet facing web applications
• Hands-on design and implementation of various network security stack architectures with a primary focus on Palo Alto firewalls
• Development of network security requirements, assists in technical regulatory compliance efforts, evaluates security services and technologies
• Reviews and documents information security policies and procedures as well as provides monitoring and oversight for alerts in this environment to hand off to Operations.

Other responsibilities:
• Strong Understanding of Palo Alto Firewalls
• Deploying Palo Alto firewalls in AWS and Azure (VM, NGFW and CN)
• Understands network and cloud firewall deployments and architectures
• Architecting and Engineering DMZ security for Internet facing web applications
• Network segmentation of non-prod and production environments
• Understanding various vendor solutions that are used to secure various architectures
• Proactively identify and determine priority for any network security gaps
• Mentors other Network Engineers for security best practices
• Point of Contact for all escalations from engineering and ops teams
• Firewall standards and tools used to audit standards are applied
• Firewall rule cleanup tools and procedures
• Works with security teams to create and/or steer processes for identifying and remediating vulnerabilities and risk
• Serve as point of escalation point for network security solutions
• Keep abreast of new cloud and automation developments, evaluate alternative approaches, and recommend new software or modifications which enhance operations and development activities
• Identify opportunities and make recommendations to improve availability, reliability, efficiency, performance and overall service within the distributed computing environment and associated departments
• Provide clear documentation of technical solutions and communicate plans to management and customers

Other qualifications:
• 7-10 years’ experience managing various network architectures
• 5+ years’ experience on Palo Alto firewalls and securing Internet facing applications
• 3+ years of experience in Public Cloud technologies including AWS and Microsoft Azure specifically in networking and security solutions and implementation.
• 5+ years of technical experience with network security technologies (ex. Firewalls, proxy and network segmentation)
• 5+ years experience working with routing protocols BGP and OSPF
• Experience in DevOps scripting and automation using tools such as Ansible, Puppet, Chef, and/or Terraform
• Understanding of Openshift, Docker and Kubernetes container environment
• Experience with DLP, WAF, DDOS, IPS/IDS
• Experience with Palo Cloud, SOAR, Twistlock, Redlock and Prisma Access
• Experience with various endpoint security solutions
• Information Technology/Cisco Certified Network Associate (CCNA)
• Information Technology/Cisco Certified Network Professional Security (CCNP)

Note: Any pay ranges displayed are estimations.  Actual pay is determined by an applicant's experience, technical expertise, and other qualifications as listed in the job description.  All qualified applicants are welcome to apply.

Yoh, a Day & Zimmermann company, is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, or status as a protected veteran.

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