L3 Security Engineer - Firewall Architecture (10-15 yrs)

Job Description :

- Provide 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

Previous Job Experience :

- Network or Firewall build and engineering experience and expertise in a variety of predominantly in Palo Alto firewalls, Panaroma, PRISMA cloud, Cisco LAN and WAN in large, complex, enterprise environment

- Experience implementing/managing firewall rules, policies, PAN-OS upgrades etc.,

- Experience using network analysis, management, and performance monitoring tools to plan for growth, diagnose problems and determine source

- Working on comprehensive projects in complex networking / VPN environment with IPSEC, Meet Me and NAT