Senior Network Engineer, Enterprise Network

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.

FLEXWORK is an employee-centric reimagining of how we work. We built FLEXWORK based on employee feedback – it is about flexibility, trust, and choice whenever possible. It’s been a journey of disruption that has yielded the best of our values. We offer as much flexibility as possible, and choices that enable you to be most productive, including benefits that meet your needs and learning opportunities that you feel passionate about.

Job Description

Your Career

This position is responsible for Palo Alto Networks’ network and security infrastructure for all enterprise, partner, and customer-facing services. You will work with a team of senior-level Network Engineers leading projects crafting, implementing, and maintaining our global WAN/LAN network infrastructure. Dynamic, fast-changing and unpredictable defines our information technology team. We are looking for analytical, agile, and influential leaders who can quickly deliver meaningful results and solutions with the flexibility to accommodate evolving business needs and shifting priorities. Are you a motivated, intelligent, creative, and hardworking individual who wants to contribute and make a difference, this job is for you!

We expect office-based employees to be in the office four days per week, with one day working from where they choose. We believe being together facilitates casual conversations and those magic moments where we can work on issues and ideas informally. These moments build capability and deepen trusted relationships and allow our people to feel safe in taking risks and being disruptive. Like so many companies, we are working through the details and things could change …. but in general if a role is deemed office-based we want our teams to be together four days per week.

Your Impact 

• Design, implement and provide support for all network-related hardware/software
• Ensure system uptime and backup for network-related equipment
• Work with the team on establishing network design principles, practices, implementations, documentation and LAN/WAN maintenance
• Conduct security assessments (with security team) and make recommendations on data/voice network (LAN, WLAN, WAN, DMZ, Internet), disaster recovery, remote access, network appliances, servers, and directory services security
• Conduct incident triage and response, including working with firewall and device logs, investigating security events, protecting the forensic value of data and establishing monitoring and incident reporting and response procedures
• Work on establishing consistent metrics and collection methods for device log aggregation and review procedures
• Assist with defining the objectives of network implementations including developing and reviewing proposals and presentations
• Oversee security of hosted services and applications including security requirements and architecture, risk analysis, and periodic change reviews
• Work closely with engineering to help report issues and lead project deliverables and provide status and progress reports
• Provide comprehensive and timely support to all SOX and internal audit issues as they relate to Security Operations including analyzing data privacy requirements and implementing business process and IT controls

Qualifications

Your Experience

• BE/Btech or relevant engineering degree or equivalent military experience required
• 10+ years of relevant work experience with exposure in product organisations
• Experienced understanding of networking and routing protocols such as TCP/IP, BGP4 (multi-homing), OSPF (multi-area), RIP, ISIS, etc.
• Experience with Load Balancers, F5 preferred, AVI Load balancer and NGINX
• Knowledge of firewalls technologies, including VPNs and routing
• Knowledge in public cloud technologies - AWS/GCP/Azure
• Knowledge and experience of Python Scripting and Ansible for Network automation and analytics - Good to know
• Working knowledge in the operation of Ethernet LAN switching protocols and standards including, VLANs, VLAN aggregation, EtherChannel, PVLANs, Spanning Tree & Rapid Spanning Tree, 802.1Q
• Extensive background in planning and crafting projects and analyzing existing network systems