Our client is highly certified and has in-depth knowledge of best-in-class OEMs and ISVs, giving them the flexibility to specify the best technology to drive business initiatives. They provide application-focused solutions, project management and implementation services led by senior-level delivery consultants. They have the technical expertise and professional and managed services know-how to accelerate each client’s success, whether it’s time to market, cost and efficiency initiatives, or implementation of specific projects.
They are regularly cited in analyst and independent journals and are recognized perennially as an exceptional business partner by technology companies including HPE, Oracle, Cisco, IBM and VMware. In addition,their partner relationships span a broader IT landscape, allowing them to position the best solution given all variables for their clients’ projects and environments.

With global headquarters in Toronto, ON and U.S. headquarters in New York, NY, our client has a geographical footprint in more than 20 locations throughout North America and the U.K., with four wholly owned data centers and, through strategic partnerships, more than 40 colocation centers around the world. Their team of more than 500 highly-skilled professionals, working alongside the industry’s best technology partners, is trained to use technology to optimize client investment in human and capital resources.

Job Description:

Provide senior (Level 3) firewall architecture and engineering expertise to large, complex enterprise LAN and WAN client in predominantly Palo Alto environment.

• Security Architecture and Design: Develop and implement robust security architectures and frameworks to protect our infrastructure and applications.
• Performance Tuning: Optimize firewall performance, ensuring high availability, scalability, and minimal impact on network traffic.
• Incident Response: Investigate and respond to security incidents related to firewall breaches, performing root cause analysis and remediation.
• Policy and Rule Management: Create and enforce firewall policies and access control rules, regularly reviewing and updating them to address new threats and changes in network topology.
• Security Best Practices: Advocate for and enforce security best practices across all stages of the development lifecycle.
• Collaboration: Work closely with development teams to integrate security features and practices into new and existing applications and systems.
• Documentation and Reporting: Maintain comprehensive documentation for security procedures, incidents, and system configurations. Provide regular reports and updates to stakeholders.
• Compliance: Ensure that security practices comply with industry standards, regulations, and company policies.
• Review scripting, planning and execution of Firewall (Palo Alto) Change Management process
• Investigate firewall issues / incidents and bring to resolution within stated SLA parameters
• Working withIncident, Problem, and Change Management
• Provide Root Cause Analysis (RCA) to operations team and customers upon request
• Provide technical leadership (both verbal and written) for Incident and Change – firewall related
• Able to work on network drawings with Visio
• Work and collaborate with other app teams
• Good understanding of BGP / EIRGP routing, NAT/PAT, VPN, and firewall technologies

Previous Job Experience:
• Network or Firewall build and engineering experience and expertise in a variety of predominantly in Palo Alto firewalls, Panaroma, PRISMA cloud, Cisco LAN and WAN in large, complex, enterprise environment
• Experience implementing/managing firewall rules, policies, PAN-OS upgrades etc.,
• Experience using network analysis, management, and performance monitoring tools to plan for growth, diagnose problems and determine source
• Working on comprehensive projects in complex networking / VPN environment with IPSEC, Meet Me and NAT