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Shell brand, metro hiring, and mid-level generalist title increase competition despite niche Palo Alto requirement.
Specialized firewall and Palo Alto operations expertise reduces transferability across unrelated domains.
Explicit 3–5 years and mandatory Palo Alto, IaC, and scripting skills raise shortlisting strictness to high.
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Operate and optimize Palo Alto Networks Next-Generation Firewalls and Panorama platform across on-premises and cloud environments ensuring availability and compliance.
Manage firewall policies, health monitoring, troubleshooting, and automation including rule lifecycle and security services maintenance.
Collaborate with security, network, and cloud teams to support incident management, auditing, and continuous improvement of firewall and network security posture.
Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, IT, Cybersecurity, Network Engineering, or related field.
3-5 years hands-on experience supporting Palo Alto Networks PA-Series and VM-Series firewalls and administering Palo Alto Panorama in enterprise environments.
Strong knowledge of TCP/IP networking, VPN technologies, network security concepts, SSL/TLS certificate management, automation/scripting (Python, PowerShell), and ITSM processes (ServiceNow, ITIL).
Work Experience Required: 3-5 years with Palo Alto firewall technologies and related network security operations.
Experienced in managing large-scale enterprise Palo Alto firewall deployments with strong expertise in security policy lifecycle and compliance.
Skilled in automation and integration using APIs, Infrastructure as Code tools such as Terraform, and scripting to improve operational efficiency.
Capable of collaborating across security, network, cloud, and IAM teams to ensure effective firewall governance, incident response, and security service management.