Job Description

Company Description
Our Mission At Palo Alto Networks® everything starts and ends with our mission: Being the cybersecurity partner of choice, protecting our digital way of life. We have the vision of a world where each day is safer and more secure than the one before. These aren’t easy goals to accomplish – but we’re not here for easy. We’re here for better. We are a company built on the foundation of challenging and disrupting the way things are done, and we’re looking for innovators who are as committed to shaping the future of cybersecurity as we are. Disruption is at the core of our technology and on our way of work to meet the needs of our employees now and in the future through FLEXWORK, our approach to how we work. We’re changing the nature of work from benefits to learning, location to leadership, we’ve rethought and recreated every aspect of the employee experience at Palo Alto Networks. And because it FLEXes around each individual employee based on their individual choices, employees are empowered to push boundaries and help us all evolve, together.


Your Career In this role, as a Sr. Staff Security Engineer, you will drive development initiatives to create immediate ad hoc automation needs along with driving our long-term automation frameworks and later SOAR program. You will work with Security Engineering, SOC, Network team and DevOps teams to understand and prioritize automation opportunities, build automation into CI/CD pipelines, create internal tooling, and build tool integrations. This position is responsible for automation development in Palo Alto Networks’ (PANW) security infra for all enterprise, partner, and customer-facing services. A successful candidate for this role will have strong Technical and organization skills. You will work with a team of senior-level Network Engineers/cloud security/SOC engineers writing great quality software automation to create digital visibility and action-taking mechanisms for PANWs global network security infrastructure. We are seeking a software engineer with a passion for information security/networking and an aptitude for building scalable distributed systems. Your Impact

• Designing and implementing the build, model, analyze and monitor the process for PANW’s current and next-generation networks
• Collaborate with network engineers to automate various processes, build a software infrastructure for network monitoring and analysis; provide data points for capacity planning and architecture change analysis
• Work with multi-vendor network devices and protocols
• Develop code to monitor network health, thresholds, and systems that proactively analyze and mitigate service disrupting network events
• Develop security test plans, procedures, automated test scripts, and tooling
• Develop a test suite and related tooling to assist in regression testing for application security vulnerabilities
• Work collaboratively with the DevOps team to plan, deploy, and run automated tests in test environments
• Work with backend data systems to drive REST APIs and workflows across a variety of cloud and on-prem solutions
• Translate analyst and researcher requirements and/or PoC scripts and tools into production-grade services, driving process automation
• Support new and existing security systems and custom applications
• Develop in-house automation tools for network scan analysis, audit, reports and more

Qualifications

• 7+ Experience in Python Programming, go programming, HTML, CSS, JAVASCRIPT
• Flask, Django, Node JS, MongoDB
• Google Cloud Platform
• REST API
• Architect IoT Backend design for onboarding customers
• Building Scalable and consumable software component for IoT
• Working knowledge of palo alto firewall
• Very good knowledge of data structures and algorithms

Additional Information
The Team Think about it, security for an information security company. Working at a high-tech cybersecurity company within the Information Security team is a once in a lifetime opportunity. You’ll be joined with the brightest minds in technology, our global teams on the front line of defense against cyberattacks. We’re joined by one mission – but driven by the impact of that mission and what it means to protect our way of life in the digital age. Join a dynamic and fast-paced team that feels excitement at the prospect of a challenge and feels a thrill at resolving security gaps that inhibit our privacy. 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. To learn more about our culture and dedication to inclusion and innovation, visit our careers page. 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.
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