Palo Alto Engineer/Team Lead

Our client is searching for an experienced Palo Alto NGFW Network Engineer and Team Lead to join our dynamic IT team in San Francisco, CA. This hybrid role requires candidates to work 2-3 days per week on-site. In this role, you will provide guidance and technical support to clients deploying our security integrations. Youll act as the technical partner, providing strategic guidance around complex systems to secure a digital environment. Interacting directly with the client, youll partner closely with client personnel to guide and suggest integrations to better serve their success. Your thorough understanding of our product integrations contributes to the development of new principles and concepts providing detailed analysis around whats working, whats not, and what could be better.

This in an ideal opportunity if:

• You enjoy implementation work, are proactive about resolving potential concerns, and operate well around strict best practices that enable our clients on their road to a more secure digital world.
• Youre creative, innovative, and you love a challenge learning how integrations might work better around new products and technologies.

Key Responsibilities:

• Lead and manage a team of engineers, providing mentorship and guidance to ensure successful project delivery and team development.
• Work full-time to support the end client in a hybrid work environment (2-3 days per week on-site)
• 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

Qualifications

• 6 years of experience deploying Palo Alto networking products and NGFW
• 4 years of management experience, with a proven track record of leading and mentoring teams of network security engineers.
• High level of experience with Panorama and log collectors
• NGFW
• Global Protect
• 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
• Detailed technical experience in the installation, configuration, and operation of high-end firewall appliances, ideally Palo Alto Networks products
• Experience in internetworking, LAN, and WAN technologies
• Good understanding of Internet protocols and applications
• Possess the following industry certifications: CISSP, CCNA, CNSE, JNCIE-SEC
• Ability to effectively handle multiple projects and work calmly in high pressure
• Excellent writing skills, with strong verbal communication skills, with demonstrable ability to communicate to senior leaders and technical peers

Requirements

• Please note that pursuant to a government contract, this specific position requires U.S. citizenship status
• Minimum of 6 years experience deploying Palo Alto Networking Products
• Minimum of 6 years experience with NGFW
• Minimum of 4 years experience as a Team Lead
• Must be able to work full-time to support the end client in a hybrid work environment (2-3 days per week on-site) in San Francisco, CA.

What is Important to Us:

• You are an excellent communicator in writing and speaking.
• You have the ability to work independently but also value teamwork.
• Your problem-solving skills are excellent.
• You are looking for a job where performance appraisals occur regularly, and you look forward to advancing your career.
• You seek a community of virtue-centered co-workers and clients.