Senior Security Engineer

Senior Security Engineer

Location: San Francisco, CA - Fully Onsite

Top skills/tools, etc. that are MUST haves:

• Core security with experience deploying / upgrading and migrating Palo Alto firewalls
• Consultative and team player
• High level of experience with Panorama and log collectors
• Palo Alto Next Generation Firewalls
• Detailed technical experience in the installation, configuration, and operation of high-end firewall appliances, ideally Palo Alto Networks products

Job Description

You will provide guidance and technical support to clients deploying our security integrations. You'll act as the technical partner, providing strategic guidance around complex systems to secure a digital environment. Interacting directly with the client, you'll partner closely with client personnel to guide and suggest integrations to better serve their success.

• Work full-time at the customer site in a Hybrid rotation
• Communicate with the customer(s), sales teams, peers, engineering and support teams as appropriate
• Understand the customer environment, requirements, and security roadmap to implement the appropriate security solution
• Configure, implement, and maintain Security Operating Platform
• Optimize and migrate policies and objects from the existing environment to our Next-Gen Firewall
• Test and validate the migration environment
• Coordinate and execute cutover to production
• Provide guidance on code upgrades
• Facilitate the development of new application and threat signatures
• Interact with our Technical Assistance Center (TAC) to understand and diagnose support cases
• Some travel may be required, dependent on customer request
• You work with the customer's security & network teams to build confidence across the business units impacted by the change to Palo Alto Networks

Nice to haves:

• BS in Computer Science, MIS, business, or equivalent education/training/experience
• Minimum of 5 years' experience with network/security solutions and technologies (BGP, SD-WAN concepts, VXLAN and general routing and switching)
• Minimum of 3 years' experience leading security solutions in large environments)
• You're experienced in internetworking, LAN, and WAN technologies
• You have a good understanding of Internet protocols and applications
• You effectively handle multiple projects and work calmly in high pressure
• You're an excellent writer, with strong verbal communication skills, with demonstrable ability to communicate to senior leaders and technical peers