Principal Cloud Security Engineer

Company Description

Our Mission

At Palo Alto Networks® everything starts and ends with our mission: protecting our way of life in the digital age by preventing successful cyberattacks. It’s not a small goal. It isn’t simple either, but we aren’t in this for the easy answer. As a company with a foundation in challenging the way things are done, we’re looking for innovators with a dedication to THE best. In return, your career will have a tangible impact - one that's working toward technology that affects every level of society.

Our mission doesn’t happen by treading softly. It happens by defining an industry. It means building products that haven't been thought of. It means selling products with a solutions mindset. It means supporting the infrastructure of a company that moves at an incredible speed… intentionally… to stay ahead of the world’s next cyberthreat.

Job Description

Your Career 

Palo Alto Networks protects tens of thousands of people every day from Cyber bad-actors, but who protects Palo Alto Networks?  The Palo Alto Networks Enterprise Cloud Security team has this incredible responsibility and, as a Principal Enterprise Cloud Security Engineer, it’s your job to protect the team so we can protect the world!  Working within a GCP environment, you will maintain our FedRAMP SaaS platform, assuring continuous reliability and efficiency.

Your Impact  

• Analyze technical risks of existing network / system and application architectures (IAAS/PAAS/SAAS and on premise) against correlating policies and risks, and provides appropriate remediation or risk reduction plans
• Evaluates ongoing practices and procedures, technical documentation, and diagrams for appropriate security measure maturity and effectiveness
• Independently leads projects, coordinates with team members and other technical departments, ensuring proper communication and management of the overall success through completion
• Generates and monitors effective and actionable Information Security reporting across the InfoSec technical landscape and provides pertinent input to briefing presentations
• Provides consulting on best practices to internal customers to ensure processes are embedded at the correct time and frequency and to ensure compliance to security standards
• Define technical control requirements, evaluate existing tool effectiveness, and propose solutions to enhance the company's security posture

Qualifications

Your Experience 

• 7-10 years of combined experience as an software engineer, infrastructure engineer, network engineer or cloud security engineer

• In depth knowledge  with public cloud architecture, such as GCP, AWS and Azure, and virtualization technologies, such as kubernetes, VMware and OpenStack
• In depth knowledge of threat model, network security, cryptography, authentication and authorization
• The ability to design, install and maintain security controls over multi-cloud networks
• Extensive experience and knowledge of the Linux OS, MS and iOS operating systems
• Possesses knowledge in; VPN, VRF, MPLS, and network routing
• Experience in security engineering related to vulnerability management, intrusion prevention, data protection, monitoring, analytical and correlation tools a PLUS
• Certification in any of the following is a plus: PCNSE; Google Cloud Architect; AWS Cloud Architect; CISSP-ISSEP - Sec. Eng. Professional;  GIAC Certified Enterprise Defender (GCED); CCSP, Splunk Cert. Enterprise Security Administrator

Education

• Bachelor's degree from four-year college or university; or equivalent training, education, and experience in information / cyber security, computer systems, IT, etc.

Additional Information

The Team

Think about it, security for an information security company. Working at a high-tech cybersecurity company within the Information Security team is a once in a lifetime opportunity. You’ll be joined with the brightest minds in technology, our global teams on the front line of defense against cyberattacks. We’re joined by one mission – but driven by the impact of that mission and what it means to protect our way of life in the digital age. Join a dynamic and fast-paced team that feels excitement at the prospect of a challenge and feels a thrill at resolving security gaps that inhibit our privacy.

Our Commitment

We’re trailblazers that dream big, take risks, and challenge cybersecurity’s status quo. It’s simple: we can’t accomplish our mission without diverse teams innovating, together. To learn more about our culture and dedication to inclusion and innovation, visit our careers page.

Palo Alto Networks is an equal opportunity employer. We celebrate diversity in our workplace, and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to age, ancestry, color, family or medical care leave, gender identity or expression, genetic information, marital status, medical condition, national origin, physical or mental disability, political affiliation, protected veteran status, race, religion, sex (including pregnancy), sexual orientation, or other legally protected characteristics.

The compensation offered for this position will depend on qualifications, experience, and work location. For candidates who receive an offer at the posted level, the starting base salary (for non-sales roles) or base salary + commission target (for sales/commissioned roles) is expected to be between $153000/yr to $247500/yr. The offered compensation may also include restricted stock units and a bonus. A description of our employee benefits may be found here.

All your information will be kept confidential according to EEO guidelines.

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