Sr Security Engineer/ Architect (Palo Alto) - INTL India

An employer is seeking Sr Security Engineer specializing in Palo Alto for a direct hire opportunity in India. The Sr Security Engineer is responsible for providing senior (Level 3) firewall architecture and engineering expertise to large, complex enterprise LAN and WAN client in predominantly Palo Alto environment.

Security Architecture and Design: Develop and implement robust security architectures and frameworks to protect our infrastructure and applications.
Performance Tuning: Optimize firewall performance, ensuring high availability, scalability, and minimal impact on network traffic.
Incident Response: Investigate and respond to security incidents related to firewall breaches, performing root cause analysis and remediation.
Policy and Rule Management: Create and enforce firewall policies and access control rules, regularly reviewing and updating them to address new threats and changes in network topology.
Security Best Practices: Advocate for and enforce security best practices across all stages of the development lifecycle.
Collaboration: Work closely with development teams to integrate security features and practices into new and existing applications and systems.
Documentation and Reporting: Maintain comprehensive documentation for security procedures, incidents, and system configurations. Provide regular reports and updates to stakeholders.
Compliance: Ensure that security practices comply with industry standards, regulations, and company policies.
Review scripting, planning and execution of Firewall (Palo Alto) Change Management process
Investigate firewall issues / incidents and bring to resolution within stated SLA parameters
Working with Incident, Problem, and Change Management
Provide Root Cause Analysis (RCA) to operations team and customers upon request
Provide technical leadership (both verbal and written) for Incident and Change firewall related
Able to work on network drawings with Visio
Work and collaborate with other app teams
Good understanding of BGP / EIRGP routing, NAT/PAT, VPN, and firewall technologies

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Required Skills & Experience

8+ years of experience within security engineering design/ architect NOT operations work
Palo Alto SME building from scratch, building new zones, new firewalls, new DMZs, etc.
Excellent communication
Strong network background route/switch/ Nexus/ SDWAN
Experienced in Jira

Nice to Have Skills & Experience

Palo Alto certifications
CCNP or CCIE

Benefit packages for this role will start on the 31st day of employment and include medical, dental, and vision insurance, as well as HSA, FSA, and DCFSA account options, and 401k retirement account access with employer matching. Employees in this role are also entitled to paid sick leave and/or other paid time off as provided by applicable law.