Network Engineer - Palo Alto, Firewalls, Azure, NIST, OT - 100% Remote, Europe

A large global organisation are seeking an experienced Network Engineer with strong expertise in Palo Alto Networks technologies to design security infrastructure and perimeter defences. You will be contributing to the definition & deployment of Network Security across IT and OT for Cloud and Edge.

This will be an initial 6-12 months+ contract with the possibility for extensions.

The role will be worked on a 100% fully remote basis.

Key Responsibilities/Skills: Engineer, deploy and support/maintenance of Palo Alto firewalls via Panorama. Architecture and design Networks and Firewalls. Implementation and troubleshooting of Palo Alto FW in Azure via. DevOps and Terraform/ARM template. Managing/working on AIOps, CDL and security policy remediation. Working towards a Zero Trust model, creating relevant architectures, strategy, and deliverables Risk assessments and mapping out controls. Experience and understanding of Infrastructure as Code provisioning/management and tooling (eg: Hashicorp’s Terraform). Experience working within NIST Framework. Good understanding of cloud security with practical knowledge of security solutions for Azure. Provide hands on support and guidance to our managed service providers and more junior members of the team. Provide L4 support during critical outages. Quality assurance of designs and templates through adoption of industry best practices. Basic understanding of Zscaler ZIA & ZPA. Azure AZ500 & Palo Alto PCNSE Certification.