Network Security Engineer; Information Security

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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:
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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.

• 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.
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