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Our Mission

At Palo Alto Networks®, we’re united by a shared mission—to 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 you’re ready to do the most meaningful work of your career alongside people who are just as passionate as you are, you’re 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!

We believe collaboration thrives in person. That’s why most of our teams work from the office full time, with flexibility when it’s needed. This model supports real-time problem-solving, stronger relationships, and the kind of precision that drives great outcomes.

Job Summary

Join Palo Alto Networks and help shape the future of cybersecurity. As a Senior Network Security Engineer on our Enterprise Security team, you will play a critical role in protecting and enabling the infrastructure behind our Enterprise, SaaS, and Public Cloud environments. In this role, you’ll leverage your expertise in networking, firewalls, cloud platforms, and automation to design and build secure, scalable solutions. You will drive the integration and automation of security controls across infrastructure and applications, ensuring resilience, efficiency, and continuous improvement. Beyond hands-on engineering, you will provide technical leadership in advancing our security programs. You’ll contribute to strategic technology planning, solution design, and estimation while helping execute on our vision to disrupt the cybersecurity industry. This is an opportunity to work on complex challenges at scale, collaborate with top-tier talent, and make a meaningful impact. If you are a fast learner with a passion for cybersecurity and thrive in a dynamic, innovation-driven environment, this is a great opportunity for you.

Job Responsibilities:

• Provide advanced network and cloud security engineering support across on-premises and cloud environments (e.g GCP, AWS), ensuring secure, scalable, and compliant infrastructure for enterprise and production systems.

• Design and implement secure network architectures aligned with Zero Trust principles, including network segmentation, identity-based access controls, secure ingress/egress configurations, and firewall policy management.

• Support security control implementation and continuous monitoring activities aligned with FedRAMP, NIST 800-53, and other U.S. Government compliance frameworks, ensuring technical safeguards meet Moderate/High baseline requirements.

• Develop, maintain, and enforce hardened security baselines for infrastructure components (VMs, containers, Kubernetes, firewalls, load balancers, and network devices) in alignment with CIS Benchmarks, STIGs, NIST standards, and internal security policies.

• Perform regular firewall rule reviews, security group audits, and access control validations to ensure least privilege and proper segmentation across environments.

• Conduct cloud security posture assessments to identify misconfigurations, reduce risk exposure, and improve compliance with regulatory and internal standards.

• Partner with GRC and compliance teams to support audit readiness efforts, including evidence collection, documentation updates, POA&M tracking, and control validation for FedRAMP, SOC 2, and ISO 27001.

• Collaborate closely with Network Engineering, Cloud Engineering, IAM, Vulnerability Management, SRE, and Product Security teams to integrate security controls into infrastructure and deployment workflows.

• Assist in evaluating third-party and SaaS integrations to ensure alignment with enterprise and regulatory security requirements.

• Prioritize and remediate critical vulnerabilities and data exposure risks in cloud and network environments using a risk-based approach.

• Develop and maintain automation using SOAR tools and infrastructure-as-code practices to streamline security operations and improve consistency of control enforcement.

• Support incident response efforts involving network or cloud security events, including investigation, containment, root cause analysis, and documentation of corrective actions.

• Contribute to broader enterprise security initiatives, including identity governance, workload security, and secure configuration management.

Qualifications

• 5–8 years of hands-on experience in network and infrastructure security engineering within enterprise and/or regulated environments.

• 2+ years of experience managing enterprise firewall technologies, with strong working knowledge of Palo Alto Networks Next-Generation Firewalls (NGFW), security policy design, rule optimization, VPNs, and threat prevention capabilities.

• 2+ years of experience securing cloud environments across AWS, GCP, and/or Microsoft Azure, including implementation of native security controls, and multi-cloud connectivity architectures.

• Experience supporting or operating in public sector or FedRAMP-aligned environments, with familiarity implementing and maintaining controls aligned to NIST 800-53, and CIS Benchmarks.

• Strong understanding of Zero Trust architecture principles, identity & access controls, and secure service-to-service communication.

• Solid knowledge of IP networking fundamentals, including routing, switching, VPNs (IPSec/SSL), DNS, NAT, load balancing, and hybrid cloud networking design.

• Experience designing, deploying, and maintaining secure cloud infrastructure using Infrastructure-as-Code (IaC) tools (e.g., Terraform) and automation frameworks.

• Proficiency with scripting and automation using Python or Go, including experience integrating security controls via REST APIs and automating operational workflows.

• Experience performing firewall rule reviews and access control evaluations across complex enterprise environments to ensure alignment with compliance and least privilege standards.

• Working knowledge of PKI and certificate lifecycle management, including TLS configuration, certificate issuance/renewal, and mutual authentication.

• Strong experience with OS-level security hardening across Linux (RHEL, Ubuntu) and Windows Server, including patch management, log monitoring, secure configuration enforcement, and adherence to CIS/NIST baselines.

• Experience securing and integrating Microsoft Active Directory (AD) environments, including Group Policy management, RBAC, LDAP integrations, and hybrid identity federation.

• Experience supporting audit and compliance activities, including control validation, documentation, and evidence collection for FedRAMP, SOC 2, or ISO 27001.

• Strong analytical and troubleshooting skills with the ability to work independently while collaborating effectively with cross-functional teams (Network Engineering, Cloud Infrastructure, IAM, GRC, SRE).

• CISSP, PCNSE, AWS Security Specialty, GCP Professional Cloud Security Engineer preferred.

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.

$127,600.00 - $206,525.00/yr

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  accommodations@paloaltonetworks.com.

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.

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