Sr. Cloud NW Security Engineer (PAN NGFW) - FedRamp - US Citizenship req'd - Santa Clara, CA HQ onsite 3 days per week

Company Description

To comply with U.S. federal government requirements, U.S. citizenship is required for this position 

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 is disrupting the Cyber Security industry!  We are looking for a Senior Cloud and firewall Engineer to join our Infosec team that owns, securing and delivering security for our Enterprise, SaaS, and Public Cloud security services. With your networking, firewall, cloud, and development skills, you’ll design, build automation and integrate along with our secure programs – scale and secure our infrastructure and application in a Google Cloud Platform environment as well as collaborate with other team members. In this role, you will provide technical leadership in the development of Security programs by helping to drive the disruptive vision, technology planning, and estimation. If you are a fast learner and passionate about Cyber Security,  this is a great opportunity for you

Your Impact

• Providing advanced operations and engineering support for critical systems and services, including application and security infrastructure on-prem and in the cloud
• Responsible for assessing and reviewing the security and cloud infrastructure on IT and production environment
• Coordinates with various teams to ensure appliances and services are configured with the correct posture to support business requirements
• In-depth knowledge of designing and implementing a Zero-Trust Network Architecture, including segmentation
•  Continuous monitoring and improvement on the IT Support and accelerate scalability, reliability, and performance improvement in the product infrastructure
• Assist in maintaining strong oversight with cloud computing solutions to safeguard against undue risk presented by external entities
• Engage the community across multiple channels, looking to share, educate, and inspire - In particular, manage the strategic relationship with key security vendors in the Identity space
• Develop automation using SOAR tool on tasks that could be automated to improve efficiency of the team
• Work with different teams in unison outside the Security Fusion Center such as Vulnerability Mgmt, Network Teams, OS teams, Pen testing
• Understand urgency and security risk and respond to critical vulnerabilities and data exposures
• Perform traffic and port scans during an incident investigation

Qualifications

Your Experience 

• 5+ years of experience in core firewall technologies - Must have a working knowledge of Palo Alto NGFW
• 5+ years of experience with cloud service provider eco-system e.g. GCP/AWS/MS Azure
• Experience in designing, building, and maintaining scalable cloud infrastructure and applications
• Working knowledge of IP Networking, Routing, Switching, VPNs, DNS, and load balancing
• Proficiency in virtualization technologies, particularly VMware, and experience with