Network Security Consultant-FirewallPalo Alto

Job Title: Network Security Consultant Firewall Palo Alto

Location: Salisbury NC (Onsite)

Job Description Network Security Consultant

The ideal candidate will have deep experience of networking technologies such as Routing and switching Firewalls proxy GNAC IDS/IPS routing switching managing heterogeneous environment & generate metrics related to Security Network performance capacity availability failure rates and will also have a strong background in network performance management service delivery and strategic operations planning with a strong technical orientation & creative in problem solving.

Required Qualifications and Experience:

• Minimum 5 years of working in a Network / Telecommunications role with expert level experience with Routing and Switching Firewall Management Proxy Management IDS/IPS Management NAC Management SD-WAN VPN Firewalls etc technologies
• Experience with technologies Forti Manager Forti Analyzer Fortinet Firewalls and Fortinet SD-WAN is must.
• Hands on experience with Azure Enterprise-scale reference architecture
• Infrastructure as Code (IaC) experience - scripting and automation via AZ CLI/PowerShell Bash Bicep JSON templates etc.
• Policy as Code (PaS) experience
• Well versed in Azure cloud Security native security tools and network technologies

• Experience in creating architecture patterns for public cloud and cloud-native solutions
• Experience with assessments of cloud security.
• Hands on experience with IaC tools like ARM terraform ansible PowerShell python azcli github.
• Working experience in any public ( Azure GCP Oracle Aws or others) or hybrid cloud
• Experience on Cloud native or third-party firewalls on cloud

Knowledge and education:

• Bachelors degree in computer science Information Technology Engineering or related field
• 5 years of experience designing and planning Azure environments in enterprise environments including application dependencies client presentation mechanisms network con

Key responsibilities include:

This is a hands-on technical role:

Independently own the Security Infrastructure support solving complex issues and suggest design modifications as appropriate.

- Ensure SLAs are met - Responsible for performance analysis proactive troubleshooting and capacity planning for the Security platforms.

- Perform monitoring and maintenance of overall environment working with experienced team members.

- Perform change controls. Update process documentation and team portals

- Participate in troubleshooting capacity planning and analysis performance analysis & Root Cause Analysis.

- Communicate with peers and managers regarding system issues & participate in 24x7 on-call.

- Automate operational tasks to make processes simpler and more robust.

- Ability to handle multiple complex tasks in a dynamic environment with tight deadlines concurrently.