Senior FedRAMP Compliance Engineer (FedRAMP/HIGH/IL5/ConMon)

Company Description

At Palo Alto Networks® everything starts and ends with our mission:

Being the cybersecurity partner of choice, protecting our digital way of life.

We have the vision of a world where each day is safer and more secure than the one before. These aren’t easy goals to accomplish – but we’re not here for easy. We’re here for better. 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.

Disruption is at the core of our technology and on our way of work to meet the needs of our employees now and in the future through FLEXWORK, our approach to how we work. We’re changing the nature of work from benefits to learning, location to leadership, we’ve rethought and recreated every aspect of the employee experience at Palo Alto Networks. And because it FLEXes around each individual employee based on their individual choices, employees are empowered to push boundaries and help us all evolve, together.

Job Description

Your Career

Palo Alto Networks is building a world-class product management organization and continues to look for top-notch members of the team. As a Senior member of the certifications team at Palo Alto Networks, you will play an instrumental role in attaining and maintaining certifications across our product line.  

Certifications are of high value as they enable our products to be sold into many key markets around the world. In this role, you will be responsible for coordinating all technical activities related to the product certifications, as well as individually contributing much of the content required to obtain these certifications.

Qualifications

Your Impact

• Work collaboratively with Product Management, Sales, Engineering and other stakeholders to develop certification strategies and execute in a timely manner, ensuring alignment of certification strategies and execution plans to business and product imperatives
• In depth knowledge of the NIST 800-53 requirements and the FedRAMP authorization processes and be able to translate them into requirements for internal teams
• Prior FedRAMP Moderate, HIGH, IL5 assessment experience
• Prior ISMAP, C5, IRAP, MLPS experience a plus
• Drive FedRAMP audit and Continuous Monitoring engineering activities, including producing POAM
• Hands on experience on SSP development
• Understand complex technical security architectures (including cloud architecture) and apply that to certification and compliance projects as needed
• Effectively communicate with all invested areas of the organization and management stakeholders, from engineering to leadership
• Develop a solid technical understanding of the product line to speak fluently with consultants, certification agencies, and more to achieve certifications with a few additional resources as possible
• Perform basic product testing and certifications documentation development to ensure success during the certification process

• At least 5 years for technology-focused FedRAMP risk assessments and remediation management
• At least 3 years experience with FedRAMP and Continuous Monitoring
• At least 3 years experience in systems administration for Linux and Windows operating systems
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills
• Hands-on in-style and approach to working with a very strong interest and demonstrable aptitude in technology products
• Ability to communicate effectively with a variety of internal partners and customers
• Understand the challenges of working in a distributed environment with multiple teams working on different problems
• Curious, positive, “can-do” and transparent attitude is very critical for success
• Unafraid to take charge, ask hard questions, manage distractions confidently yet respectfully and drive to goals
• Strong ability to work with minimum supervision
• Assertive yet open, thoughtful, respectful, and easy to work with; must embody Palo Alto Networks values
• BS degree ( or equivalent technical degree) required; MS preferred
• CISA, CRISC, CISSP or other similar security certifications desired

Additional Information

The Team

To stay ahead of the curve, it’s critical to know where the curve is, and how to anticipate the changes we’re facing. For the fastest growing cybersecurity company, the curve is the evolution of cyber attacks and the products and services that proactively address them. Our Global Certification, Assurance and Trust Team helps us do just that.

Our organization and employees are committed to changing as rapidly as our industry’s threats do, and to do that, we need creative product teams to addr