Senior Security Engineer - Palo Alto Strata Cloud
Navy Federal Credit UnionAbout the role
Navy Federal Credit Union is seeking a Senior Security Engineer to maintain and implement the latest Palo Alto Strata Cloud Manager technology and strategies to ensure the security posture of the systems is scalable and effective across the organization.
Additionally, this position will provide security engineering support to research, evaluate, design, implement, and maintain system and product solutions, applying knowledge of engineering principles. To provide technical direction and engineering support for projects and infrastructure. Develop and maintain expert functional knowledge of evolving IT engineering industry technologies/competition, concepts, and trends.
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- Available for on-call support for major outages and maintenance related to Palo Alto Strata Cloud Manager
- Highly proficient on the architecture, design, and deployment of Palo Alto Strata Cloud Manager
- Integrate development of the proxy with other security solutions
- Function as a liaison between the client and Palo Alto Support
- Engage in technical design of solutions based on use cases and business requirements to protect security services for the global security infrastructure
- Participate in proof of concepts and other technical evaluations of technologies, designs and solutions, and provide recommendations
- Stay relevant to emerging technologies and threats, proactively assess and evaluate the adoption thereof into the organization
- Support the development of security requirements, design and architecture artifacts, plans and policies
- Support defining security development and test efforts, implement security controls for networking devices, databases, operating systems and hardware and software components
- Integrate security development, performing analysis on security data and test results
- Strong written, oral and presentation skills with the ability to discuss highly technical concepts to all audiences, ranging from non-technical people to executive level technical decision-makers
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Technology or the equivalent combination of training, education, and experience
- 3+ years of total experience in security engineering, on premise and cloud architectures, proxy management, cloud governance and security controls
- 2+ years of Palo Alto Prisma Access, Strata Cloud Manager experience
- Domain expertise of network security sensors such as IDS, cloud security access broker (CSAB), Virtual Network security, DDOS protections, DNS, etc.
- Detail understanding of Virtual Network Technologies Routers, switches, Load Balancers, firewalls, proxy, etc.
- An understanding and exposure to Cloud standards, architecture and models
- In depth understanding of TCP/UDP/ICMP/IP protocols
- PowerShell, Python and Splunk experience
- Experience with PKI, SSL, SSH, HTTPS, etc.
- Experience with industry leading firewalls, proxy and load balancing solutions
- Experience with network security concepts and principles
- Experience with Server and Endpoint operating system security
Desired Qualifications
- Zero Trust Network Access
- SASE, SD-WAN, Cloud Proxy, Web Isolation
Hours: Monday - Friday, 8:00AM - 4:30PM
Location: 820 Follin Lane, Vienna, VA 22180 | 5510 Heritage Oaks Drive, Pensacola, FL 32526 | 141 Security Drive, Winchester, VA 22602 | Remote
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