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Sr. Staff InfoSec Engineer
Sr. Staff InfoSec Engineer-October 2024
Santa Clara
Oct 30, 2025
ABOUT PALO ALTO NETWORKS
Palo Alto Networks provides robust, innovative protection against cyberattacks.
10,000+ employees
Technology
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About Sr. Staff InfoSec Engineer

  Our Mission

  At Palo Alto Networks® everything starts and ends with our mission:

  Being the cybersecurity partner of choice, protecting our digital way of life.

  Our vision is a world where each day is safer and more secure than the one before. We are a company built on the foundation of challenging and disrupting the way things are done, and we’re looking for innovators who are as committed to shaping the future of cybersecurity as we are.

  Our Approach to Work

  We lead with flexibility and choice in all of our people programs. We have disrupted the traditional view that all employees have the same needs and wants. We offer personalization and offer our employees the opportunity to choose what works best for them as often as possible - from your wellbeing support to your growth and development, and beyond!

  At Palo Alto Networks, we believe in the power of collaboration and value in-person interactions. This is why our employees generally work from the office three days per week, leaving two days for choice and flexibility to work where you feel most effective. This setup fosters casual conversations, problem-solving, and trusted relationships. While details may evolve, our goal is to create an environment where innovation thrives, with office-based teams coming together three days a week to collaborate and thrive, together!

  Your Career

  Palo Alto Networks is disrupting the Cyber Security industry! We are looking for a Senior Cloud and firewall Engineer to join our Infosec team that owns, securing and delivering security for our Enterprise, SaaS, and Public Cloud security services. With your networking, firewall, cloud, and development skills, you’ll design, build automation and integrate along with our secure programs – scale and secure our infrastructure and application in a Google Cloud Platform environment as well as collaborate with other team members. In this role, you will provide technical leadership in the development of Security programs by helping to drive the disruptive vision, technology planning, and estimation. If you are a fast learner and passionate about Cyber Security, this is a great opportunity for you.

  Your Impact

  Providing advanced operations and engineering support for critical systems and services, including application and security infrastructure on-prem and in the cloud

  Responsible for assessing and reviewing the security and cloud infrastructure on IT and production environment

  Coordinates with various teams to ensure appliances and services are configured with the correct posture to support business requirements

  In-depth knowledge of designing and implementing a Zero-Trust Network Architecture, including segmentation

  Continuous monitoring and improvement on the IT Support and accelerate scalability, reliability, and performance improvement in the product infrastructure

  Assist in maintaining strong oversight with cloud computing solutions to safeguard against undue risk presented by external entities

  Engage the community across multiple channels, looking to share, educate, and inspire - In particular, manage the strategic relationship with key security vendors in the Identity space

  Develop automation using SOAR tool on tasks that could be automated to improve efficiency of the team

  Work with different teams in unison outside the Security Fusion Center such as Vulnerability Mgmt, Network Teams, OS teams, Pen testing

  Understand urgency and security risk and respond to critical vulnerabilities and data exposures

  Perform traffic and port scans during an incident investigation

  Your Experience

  5+ years of experience in core firewall technologies - Must have a working knowledge of Palo Alto NGFW

  5+ years of experience with cloud service provider eco-system e.g. GCP/AWS/MS Azure

  Experience in designing, building, and maintaining scalable cloud infrastructure and applications

  Working knowledge of IP Networking, Routing, Switching, VPNs, DNS, and load balancing

  Experience in the deployment of secure wireless infrastructure in the enterprise environment

  Working knowledge of Networking dynamic routing protocols e.g. BGP, OSPF

  2+ years of Experience with REST API, Automation, and Integration using Python, Go or Java/C++ Ability to assess networking security policies within multiple firewalls

  Working knowledge of microservices technology and Experience with CI/CD tools - Jenkins, Gitlab, Chef, and Puppet is a plus

  "Self-starter" attitude and ability to troubleshoot independently

  Handle and respond to all cloud security incidents reported via ticketing platform (AWS, Azure, Google)

  Education

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

  CISSP, AWS , GCP certifications preferred

  PCNSE certification is a plus

  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.

  We are committed to providing reasonable accommodations for all qualified individuals with a disability. If you require assistance or accommodation due to a disability or special need, please contact us at [email protected] .

  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.

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

  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 $145,500/yr to $235,400/yr. The offered compensation may also include restricted stock units and a bonus. A description of our employee benefits may be found here (http://benefits.paloaltonetworks.com/) .

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