Palo Alto Firewalls Network Engineer

Title: Palo Alto Firewalls Network Engineer

Location: Remote

Length: Long term

Restriction: W2 or C2C

Description:

Interview Type: Skype *** Very long term project initial PO for 1 year, expect to go for 4+ years *** ***Remote***

Description:

Responsibilities include but are not limited to:

Troubleshooting cloud infrastructure issues related to networking and security.

Building highly scalable and highly available solutions deployed on public clouds (such as AWS, Azure, and or GCP), and or hybrid environments.

Assistance in working with other DIT teams, which includes the network and security teams, for cloud on-boarding and migrations.

Assist the operational team as needed and requested.

Perform root cause analysis and post implementation reviews.

Assist the cloud team to evaluate and identify optimal cloud solutions.

Schedules and coordinates the installation and configuration of cloud network infrastructure solutions with customers and other internal DIT teams.

Maintain and keep track of all technical duties that are related to cloud networking such as design, planning, management, maintenance, and support.

Manage, monitor, troubleshoot and resolve network performance issues: utilization/throughput, slowness, and unexpected latency.

Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities Competencies:

Extensive hands-on experience with Palo Alto VM Series firewall and Panorama configuration and optimization

Experience with VPN technologies to include IPsec and SSL technologies.

Ability to work on large TCP/IP networks, design, implementation, and troubleshooting.

Experience with name services and resolution, associated IP assignments.

Experience with routers, routing protocols, transit gateways, load balancing, and overall cloud networking, including VPCs, subnets, routes, security groups, endpoints, CIDR assignments.

Experience with security best practices and implementing security controls in a AWS cloud environment.

Possess strong problem-solving skills, including the ability to troubleshoot complex cloud networking infrastructure issues.

Strong communication skills, including the ability to communicate cloud standards and security best practices to technical and non-technical audiences.

Self-motivated with strong team-oriented and collaborative attitude.

Strong knowledge and understanding of cloud infrastructure components such as compute, storage, network management, and monitoring (network and security).

Knowledge of WAF as a Service (AWS, Azure, GCP).

Knowledge of core network services (including DNS, DHCP, and IPAM technologies)

Knowledge of IAM technologies (Azure AD, AD AWS SSO).

Ability to document detailed designs.

Required Skills

Extensive hands-on experience with Palo Alto VM Series firewall and Panorama configuration and optimization 7 Years

Experience with VPN technologies to include IPsec and SSL technologies 7 Years

Ability to work on large TCP/IP networks, design, implementation, and troubleshooting. 7 Years

Experience with routers, routing protocols, transit gateways, load balancing, and overall cloud networking 7 Years

Strong knowledge of cloud infrastructure components such as compute, storage, network management, and monitoring (network and security) 7 Years

Knowledge of WAF as a Service (AWS, Azure, GCP). 5 Years

Knowledge of core network services (including DNS, DHCP, and IPAM technologies) 5 Years

Knowledge of IAM technologies (Azure AD, AD AWS SSO). 5 Years