Sr Staff Enterprise Security Engineer (InfoSec)
Palo Alto NetworksAbout the role
Company Description
Our Mission
At Palo Alto Networks® everything starts and ends with our mission:
Being the cybersecurity partner of choice, protecting our digital way of life.
Our vision is a world where each day is safer and more secure than the one before. We are a company built on the foundation of challenging and disrupting the way things are done, and we’re looking for innovators who are as committed to shaping the future of cybersecurity as we are.
Who We Are
We take our mission of protecting the digital way of life seriously. We are relentless in protecting our customers and we believe that the unique ideas of every member of our team contributes to our collective success. Our values were crowdsourced by employees and are brought to life through each of us everyday - from disruptive innovation and collaboration, to execution. From showing up for each other with integrity to creating an environment where we all feel included.
As a member of our team, you will be shaping the future of cybersecurity. We work fast, value ongoing learning, and we respect each employee as a unique individual. Knowing we all have different needs, our development and personal wellbeing programs are designed to give you choice in how you are supported. This includes our FLEXBenefits wellbeing spending account with over 1,000 eligible items selected by employees, our mental and financial health resources, and our personalized learning opportunities - just to name a few!
At Palo Alto Networks, we believe in the power of collaboration and value in-person interactions. This is why our employees generally work full time from our office with flexibility offered where needed. This setup fosters casual conversations, problem-solving, and trusted relationships. Our goal is to create an environment where we all win with precision.
Job Description
Your Career
Palo Alto Networks protects tens of thousands of people every day from Cyber bad-actors, but who protects Palo Alto Networks? The Palo Alto Networks Enterprise Security team has this incredible responsibility and, as a Senior Enterprise Security Engineer, it’s your job to protect the team so we can protect the world. Leading the effort of creating our technology strategy and roadmap with a primary focus on designing, implementing and managing security controls to safeguard enterprise Identity & Access Management in compliance with regulatory frameworks, you’ll be responsible for the following:
Your Impact
- Design, build and implement security capabilities and services to protect Palo Alto Networks enterprise landscape
- Develop strategies to maintain Identity security architecture, prevent unauthorized access, and ensure identity governance across the enterprise
- Implement and manage Identity Security and Access Management tools
- Work with Security Operations team to investigate identity breach incidents, identify root cause and provide appropriate remediation or risk reduction plans
- Be the first customer for Palo Alto Networks’ Identity products and provide practitioner feedback to the product teams
- Collaborate with legal and governance, risk and compliance (GRC) teams to ensure adherence to Identity protection regulations
- Evaluate ongoing practices and procedures, technical documentation, and diagrams for appropriate security measure maturity and effectiveness
- Be hands on and lead POC with rigorous benchmarks on security technology innovations and adoptions while maintaining a team collaboration mindset
- Be a strong thought leader and clearly communicate and build support for your ideas
Qualifications
Your Experience
- 8+ years of combined experience as a Identity security engineer, cloud security engineer or Enterprise Security engineer
- Extensive experience in information security, security engineering, identity & access management roles with a Zero Trust mindset
- Deep understanding of Identity security in enterprise environments
- Strong experience in designing, implementing and managing Identity security solutions - e.g. Identity providers (Okta, Ping Federate), Access governance (Sailpoint, Saviynt), directory services (Active Directory, RedHat)
- In depth knowledge of public cloud architecture, such as GCP, AWS and Azure, with focus on securing Identities in the cloud environments
- In depth knowledge of threat model, application security assessments, network security, encryption, authentication and authorization
- Expert level experience performing threat modeling and design reviews to assess security implications and requirements
- Experience with programming / scripting in any language (Python / Golang / Powershell etc.)
- Experience in security e
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