Palo Alto Security Engineer

Title Palo Alto Security Engineer

Position Fulltime/Contract to Hire

Location Hybrid (Camden, NJ)

Key Responsibilities:

• Monitor the status of network and endpoint security systems to include:

o rule effectiveness and efficiency

o device performance

• Firewall and endpoint metrics
• Create and Enhance security documentation related to the Strata, Prisma and Cortex XDR platforms at American Water.
• Act as a technology direction lead for the Strata, Prisma, and Cortex XDR platforms, which includes providing detailed information and advice as necessary in that specialization in order to achieve business outcomes.
• Develop and/or promote technical solutions which support the business requirements. Be accountable for specific deliverables in relation Firewall and Endpoint Metrics, and technology effectiveness.
• Engage closely with stakeholders to understand what business objectives they want to accomplish through the network security platform and then work with the various technology teams to ensure the resiliency and disaster recovery needs are met.

Experience/Education

• Bachelors' degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, relevant field of Engineering or similar technology field.
• 5+ years of hands-on experience with Network Security Devices, Palo Alto Networks platform and Strata Cloud Manager Preferred
• Experience with SASE security implementations and coordination of policies between SASE components.
• Experience managing EDR deployments across varying OS and device types, with direct Cortex XDR experience preferred.