Palo Alto Engineer

Palo Alto Engineer to go onsite in Yavne, Israel

9 months contract, could be a contract to hire position.

Must be able to work as an independent contractor and paid via wire transfer.

Senior Security Engineer:

Responsibilities:

• Work with a global team of Infrastructure Engineers to maintain corporate security posture on-premises and in the cloud.

• Develop, implement, maintain, and oversee enforcement of policies, procedures, and associated plans for system security administration and user system access based on industry-standard best practices.

• Support Cloud Security Services; firewalls, load balancers, security groups, ACLs, SASE, SSE, etc.

• Design, engineer, and support all aspects of corporate and global firewalls, cloud security, and VPN configurations, both internal and customer-facing.

• Collaborates with Enterprise Architecture, Engineers, Analysts, Security Architects, and peers to brainstorm, design, deploy, and support integrations, solutions, security tools for highly available and disaster resilient solutions.

• Influencing product teams to implement practices that maintain a high security bar

• Provide subject matter expertise on firewalls and industry best practices

• Analyze and proactively come up with creative solutions for operational needs that present security challenges.

• Manage and maintain security systems by applying system patches and other periodic maintenance tasks.

• Create and Maintain standard operating procedures and guides for new and/or existing security solution implementations.

• Regularly communicate progress to company leadership and program stakeholders

• Attend weekly teleconferences, meetings, and participates in working groups, as related to constant changing security environment.

Qualifications:

• 8-10 years of experience working in a security team.

• Deep experience in deploying application-based firewalls (Palo Alto, Fortinet or similar) on premises or in cloud services (Prisma, Zscaler or similar), and SSL inspection techniques.

• In-Depth experience with Firewall migration projects and network segmentation in large complex enterprise deployments.

• Working knowledge on any Cloud Platform (Azure, AWS, GCP).

• Proficiency in multiple security technologies, including network security, NGFW, NAC, network segmentation, network security architecture.

• Solid knowledge and working experience with Layer 2-7 protocols and technologies

• Strong knowledge and troubleshooting experience with routing, security protocols, ACLs, Firewalls, WAF, and Intrusion Prevention Systems

• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills including the ability to build consensus and to present complex presentations

• Basic knowledge with one or more scripting languages.

• Certifications – PCNSA or similar, CISSP or similar, SANS GCIH or similar.