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The Role
Team focuses on operational engineering activities across the suite of security tools managed in the NIS central service environment. The core areas of focus for Perimeter Security are Firewalls (Cloud, Physical, Virtual, WAF), Proxies, IPS, and VPN. This includes but is not limited to Major Incident Response and Resolution, Tuning and maintaining solutions, providing mentoring to junior staff, improving security posture, operational projects, and overall operational process improvement.
Job Requirements and Preferences:
Basic Qualifications:
Minimum Degree Required:
Minimum Years of Experience:
- 2-4+ year(s) of progressive professional roles involving information security and/or IT management.
- Ideally some full time engineering expertise with Palo Alto Networks, including experience building/deploying/configuring/managing firewalls in an enterprise level environment with 50+ firewalls
- Experience in networking and firewalls
- Ideally has a PCNSE (Or willing to work towards one within 3 months of hiring)
Preferred Qualifications:
- Degree Preferred: Bachelors
Preferred Certifications:
- Palo Alto Certified - PCNSE
Preferred Knowledge/Skills:
Demonstrates extensive abilities and/or proven record of success as a team leader in the following areas:
- Troubleshooting and resolution of complex network security incidents, to include packet capture and analysis, log review, and critical thinking;
- Possessing experience with Palo Alto administration as well as the design and implementation of best practices;
- Solving technical problems through engineering, including requirements analysis, design, development, implementation and testing;
- Possessing stakeholder management skills and the ability to set expectations and respond to business needs in a complex high-pressure environment;
- Demonstrating Security Risk Assessment for firewall rule implementations;
- Possessing knowledge of Azure NSG, Load Balancer, UDR configuration and troubleshooting;
- Understanding of knowledge management and training for more junior firewall consultants;
- Managing Documentation for perimeter security environments;
- Developing global standards for Palo Alto technologies;
- Understanding security technology operational industry standards;
- Contributing to a central technology service organization;
- Navigating a matrix organization and collaborating with multiple stakeholders across functional and technical skill sets.
- Leveraging facts and data when approaching problems and considering both the customer's perspective as well as the enterprise's perspective while focusing on overarching goals and objectives;
- Exhibiting capabilities to multitask, performing and delivering results as both part of a team and independently;
- Demonstrating relationship skills that foster an inclusive and collaborative environment for stakeholders and team members; and,
- Collaborating with design and build engineering teams to ensure maximum capability of security solutions are achieved in the run state.