Principal Security Engineer; Palo Ato Strata Cloud
Job in
Vienna, Fairfax County, Virginia, 22184, USA
Listed on 2026-05-27
Listing for:
Navy Federal Credit Union
Full Time
position Listed on 2026-05-27
Job specializations:
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IT/Tech
Cybersecurity, Systems Engineer, IT Consultant, Network Security
Job Description & How to Apply Below
Overview
Navy Federal Credit Union is seeking a Cyber Security Engineer to maintain and implement the latest Palo Alto Strata Cloud Manager technology and strategies to ensure the cybersecurity posture of the systems is scalable and effective across the organization. Additionally, this position will provide cybersecurity engineering support to research, evaluate, design, implement, and maintain system and product solutions, applying knowledge of engineering principles.
To provide technical direction and engineering support for projects and infrastructure. Develop and maintain expert functional knowledge of evolving IT engineering industry technologies/competition, concepts, and trends.
Responsibilities
- Remain available for on-call support for major outage issue related to the Palo Alto Strata Cloud Manager.
- Highly proficient on the architecture, design, and deployment of Palo Alto Strata Cloud Manager product.
- Maintain Palo Alto Strata Cloud Manager solution.
- Integration development of the proxy with other cyber security solutions.
- Functions as a liaison between the client and Palo Alto Support.
- Engage in technical design of solutions based on use cases and business requirements.
- Participate in proof of concepts and other technical evaluations of technologies, designs and solutions and provide recommendations.
- Stay abreast of emerging technologies and threats proactively assess and evaluate the adoption thereof into the organization.
- Supporting the development of cybersecurity requirements, design & architecture artifacts, plans and policies.
- Supporting defining security development and test efforts implementation of security controls of networking devices, databases, operating systems and hardware and software components.
- Understanding and integrating cybersecurity development activities.
- Performing analysis on cybersecurity data and test results.
- Be part of team that design, protects and manages, security services for companies' global security infrastructure.
- Able to demonstrate strong written, oral and presentation skills with the ability to discuss highly technical concepts to all audiences, ranging from non-technical people to executive level technical decision-makers.
- Able to listen and collaborate with audiences ranging from IT administrators to executive level stakeholders to understand their requirements and position our tools to fulfill those requirements.
- Demonstrates the ability to confidently lead discussions on Secure Service Edge (SSE) and provide clear, strategic recommendations on solutions and direction.
- Must be self-motivated and self-educating, yet willing and able to work collaboratively.
- Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, Information Technology or the equivalent combination of training, education, and experience.
- At least 10+ years of total experience in cyber security engineering, on premise and cloud architectures, proxy management, cloud governance and security controls.
- At least 5+ years of direct hands-on experience in Palo Alto Strata Cloud Manager/Panorama and similar leading technology.
- At least 3+ years of direct hands-on experience in tuning of network sensors like IDS/IPS, DDOS, Cloud Security services.
- Domain expertise of network security sensors such as IDS, cloud access security broker (CASB), Virtual Network security, DDOS protections, DNS, etc.
- Detail understanding of Virtual Network Technologies Routers, switches, Load Balancers, firewalls, proxy, etc.
- Good understanding and exposure to Cloud standards, architecture and models.
- Detail proficiency with Linux (or similar) operating systems.
- In depth understanding of TCP/UDP/ICMP/IP protocols.
- Power Shell and Python experience.
- Experience with Splunk.
- Experience with PKI, SSL, SSH, HTTPS, etc.
- Experience with industry leading firewalls, proxy and load balancing solutions.
- Experience with network security concepts and principles.
- Experience with Server and Endpoint operating system security.
- CISSP, CCNP Security Certification, or other relevant Palo Alto Certifications.
- Zero Trust Network Access.
- SASE.
- SD-WAN.
- Cloud Proxy.
- Web Isolation.
Hours:
- Monday - Friday, 8:00AM - 4:30PM
- 820 Follin Lane, Vienna, VA 22180
- 5510 Heritage Oaks Drive, Pensacola, FL 32526
- 141 Security Drive, Winchester, VA 22602
Navy Federal provides much more than a job. We provide a meaningful career experience, including a culture that is energized, engaged and committed; and fierce appreciation for our teams, who are rewarded with highly competitive pay and generous benefits and perks.
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