Senior Network Engineer - Palo Alto Firewall

Description :

- LAN/WAN/WiFi network design, engineering, implementation, and optimization for the Corporate Network product, adhering to all applicable standards including architecture, security, privacy, compliance, etc. with a heavy focus on global WiFi networking.

- Network service and circuit capacity management

- Project planning and delivery including hardware and software specification, vendor coordination, and full operational turnover

- Change planning and run book review

- Governance of third-party service providers

- Level 3 escalation support for operational issues and/or outages

- Collaborate with other key teams including Network Architects, Test and Certification, Information Security, Finance, Procurement, etc.

- Participate in product strategy and planning

- Develop and execute new initiatives to simplify, standardize, optimize, and automate the network designs, tooling, and operations, reducing implementation cycle times, minimizing/eliminating service downtime, and optimizing performance

Skill and Experience :

- 6+ years experience as a Network Engineer with 5 or more years in a hands-on role that implements engineering standards, documenting engineering designs, and participating in project cutovers.

- Implementation of WAN, LAN, and datacenter networks with a focus on mission-critical, customer-facing applications and services

- Technical Knowledge in networking (Cisco and non-Cisco) with an emphasis on software defined networking (SDN), firewalls, DNS, NTP, Network Tools and Management as well as common routing protocols (OSPF, BGP, etc) deployed across large global networks

- Direct experience deploying and supporting Prisma Access services including FWaaS and Global Protect.

- Experience designing and delivering networking service in public clouds such as AWS, Azure, AliCloud, GCP, OCI, etc

- Experience designing and delivering WAN connectivity to public clouds utilizing CSP native connect solutions as well as other service offerings to create the underlay WAN fabric for the network

- Experience with writing Infrastructure as a Code for Cloud network components (VPC, RT, TGW, WAN, Shared Services) as well as Firewalls as a Service, SDWAN, SSE/SASE.

Other Skills and Attributes :

- Experience leveraging automation, AI and machine learning to deploy and manage networks

- Development and deployment of virtualized network services

- Vendor experience : Cisco; Juniper/Mist; Palo Alto Networks FW, Prisma Access and SDWAN; ServiceNow; Netskope; Equinix Fabric; traditional and next-gen underlay providers

- Cloud Networking Certifications

- Strong inter-personal communication skills, including the ability to collaborate with other non-Network technical teams and non-technical customers