Senior Network Security Engineer (Palo Alto Networks)
Sabenza IT & Recruitment · City of Tshwane Metropolitan Municipality, Gauteng, South Africa
IT Services and IT Consulting · 11-50 employees
About the role
You will be responsible for designing, implementing, and optimizing enterprise-level Palo Alto network security environments. Additionally, you will provide technical leadership and strategic guidance to support a large, high-profile customer.
What they look for
Requirements
The role requires over 8 years of enterprise networking experience, with at least 5 years specifically dedicated to Palo Alto Networks technologies. Candidates must possess strong troubleshooting skills and a deep understanding of Layer 2 and Layer 3 networking protocols.
Benefits
Full description
We're looking for a Senior Network Security Engineer who lives and breathes Palo Alto Networks. This is not a role for someone who simply holds a certification, we're looking for a true hands-on expert with extensive real-world experience designing, implementing, supporting and optimizing enterprise Palo Alto environments.
You'll join a team supporting a large strategic customer, where you'll be expected to think beyond day-to-day support, providing technical leadership, strategic guidance and security best practices while working alongside both customer and internal stakeholders.
If you enjoy solving complex networking and security challenges and want to play a key role within a high-profile customer environment, we'd love to hear from you.
Requirements
Essential Skills
- Extensive hands-on experience with Palo Alto Networks Firewalls
- Strong knowledge of:
- Panorama
- GlobalProtect
- VPN Technologies (IPSec & SSL VPN)
- NAT
- Security Policies
- Threat Prevention
- URL Filtering
- WildFire
- Excellent Layer 2 & Layer 3 networking knowledge
- Strong understanding of:
- TCP/IP
- Routing
- Switching
- VLANs
- OSPF
- BGP
- DNS
- DHCP
- Strong troubleshooting and analytical skills
- Experience supporting enterprise production environments
- Excellent stakeholder engagement and communication skills
Advantageous Skills
- Experience with additional firewall vendors (Fortinet, Check Point, Cisco Firepower)
- Cloud networking exposure (Azure, AWS)
- Network automation or scripting experience
- Exposure to SIEM and security monitoring platforms
- ITIL experience
- Relevant Palo Alto certifications
Experience Required
- 8+ years of enterprise networking experience
- 5+ years dedicated Palo Alto Networks experience
- Proven experience working within large enterprise environments
- Experience supporting strategic or enterprise customer accounts
Benefits
- Permanent career opportunity.
- Work with one of the company's largest strategic customers.
- Exposure to complex enterprise networking environments.
- Opportunity to influence security strategy and architecture.
- Collaborative technical team.
- Competitive salary package (flexible for the right candidate).
