ASSOCIATE ARCHITECT - Palo Alto Networks - Firewalls

Job description

**Key Responsibilities** - Lead and architect with 8-10 years of experience in enterprise-wide deployments and migrations of Palo Alto firewalls. - Design, implement, and maintain Palo Alto NGFW security policies in alignment with organizational security standards. - Review, optimize, and rationalize firewall rules to reduce complexity and security risk. - Administer and enhance Panorama for centralized policy management, logging, and reporting. - Implement network segmentation, zone-based architecture, and security best practices. - Perform risk assessments, policy recertification, and support compliance audits. - Partner with cross-functional teams to ensure security architecture aligns with business requirements. - Lead incident response activities, including troubleshooting, root cause analysis (RCA), and performance tuning. - Ensure firewall availability, execute upgrades, and manage full lifecycle operations of Palo Alto devices. - Hands-on experience with High Availability (HA) configurations and firewall upgrade activities in enterprise environments. - Experience working with Palo Alto PAN-OS versions 9.x and 11.x, including upgrades and feature migrations. **Core Palo Alto Technologies** - Palo Alto Networks NGFW (PA Series, VM-Series) - Panorama centralized management - App-ID, User-ID, Content-ID technologies, EDL - NAT configuration and IPSec/GlobalProtect VPNs - Security profiles including Antivirus, Anti-Spyware, URL Filtering, and WildFire - High Availability (HA) design and implementation - Log collection, analysis, and troubleshooting Palo Alto Networks - Firewalls