Sr. IT Systems Engineer

Our Mission

At Palo Alto Networks were united by a shared missionto protect our digital way of life. We thrive at the intersection of innovation and impact solving real-world problems with cutting-edge technology and bold thinking. Here everyone has a voice and every idea counts. If youre ready to do the most meaningful work of your career alongside people who are just as passionate as you are youre in the right place.

Who We Are

In order to be the cybersecurity partner of choice we must trailblaze the path and shape the future of our industry. This is something our employees work at each day and is defined by our values: Disruption Collaboration Execution Integrity and Inclusion. We weave AI into the fabric of everything we do and use it to augment the impact every individual can have. If you are passionate about solving real-world problems and ideating beside the best and the brightest we invite you to join us!

Job Summary

The Team

Information Technology - Working at a high-tech cybersecurity company within Information Technology is a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity. Youll join the brightest minds in technology creating building and supporting tools and enabling our global teams on the front line of defense against cyberattacks. Were connected 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 of people who feel excited by the prospect of a challenge and feel a thrill at resolving technical gaps that inhibit productivity.

Job Summary

Palo Alto Networks is looking for a talented Senior IT Systems Engineer Identity & Access Management who will be responsible for maintainability build and configuration of user identity & authentication services single sign on (SSO) and access automation. The ideal candidate enjoys working in a fast-paced environment with highly innovative technologies and will make a big impact in this highly visible role strengthening our identity services.

Key Responsibilities

• Implement and support the SSO. MFA and user access provisioning services

• Develop and maintain IAM policies procedures and standards

• Partner with IT and product teams for SSO and user registration integration

• Maintain and support API based micro services for customizing customer and partner registration

• Manage scalability capacity planning redundancy and resiliency

• Maintain service availability and performance SLAs based on business and product requirements

• Work with other Identity Platform engineers to deploy and maintain services capacity planning create and review operational runbooks

• Contribute to future roadmap design deployment validation operations and DR/BCP

• Design proactive service monitoring alerting and trend analysis of the services and implement self healing

• Participate in on-call support rotation and handle IAM-related incidents as needed

Qualifications

Required Qualifications

• Due to the nature of this project/government contract this position requires US Citizenship

• Must be located in Reston VA or Dallas Tx to be onsite.

• 3 years of hands-on experience in managing and supporting identity & access technologies like Okta Azure AD Ping Identity CyberArk

• Very strong knowledge of SSO MFA and user identity management domain

• Advanced understanding of SAML OAuth and SCIM standards and protocols and practical knowledge of their implementation

• Ability to work cross-functionally across multiple business units such as IT application infrastructure and product development teams

• Strong technical writing skills to support required documentation

• Bachelors/Masters degree in Computer Science Information Technology or technical stream with the equivalent combination of work experience or equivalent military experience required

Preferred Qualifications

• Knowledge of directory services preferably active directory

• Familiarity with privileged access management platforms

• Hands on experience with cloud provides (GCP/ AWS)

• Strong scripting / automation skills in Python / Bash /Go

Compensation Disclosure

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/com-missioned roles) is expected to be the annual range listed below. The offered compensation may also include restricted stock units and a bonus. A description of our employee benefits may be found here.

Our Commitment

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