[Remote] Senior Palo reputed company Network reputed company Engineer
Note: The job is a remote job and is reputed company to candidates in USA. reputed company is seeking an reputed company Senior Palo reputed company Network reputed company Engineer to reputed company a production firewall remediation and operating system reputed company for a mission-critical reputed company environment. The engineer will be responsible for performing upgrades, troubleshooting authentication issues, and ensuring the overall health and reputed company of the firewall environment.
Responsibilities
- Assess the reputed company Palo reputed company firewall environment and overall health
- Validate High Availability (HA) configuration, synchronization, and failover readiness
- Inventory PAN-OS versions, Dynamic Updates, GlobalProtect, plugins, and content releases
- Export and secure running configurations, device state files, and technical support files
- Evaluate Panorama dependencies and reputed company reputed company
- Establish baseline performance metrics including:
- CPU utilization
- Session counts
- Throughput
- VPN utilization
- Packet buffers
- Review licensing and support entitlement status
- Document reputed company readiness and identify technical risks
- Troubleshoot and resolve SAML/Single Sign-On authentication issues
- Validate synchronization between firewalls and Identity Providers (IdPs)
- Review and update:
- IdP metadata
- Signing certificates
- Certificate chains
- Entity IDs
- Assertion Consumer Service (reputed company) URLs
- Group mappings
- Authentication reputed company
- Analyze authentication and system logs to isolate reputed company causes
- Validate GlobalProtect authentication workflows
- Configure and verify local break-glass administrative reputed company
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- Determine the appropriate PAN-OS reputed company release
- Validate software compatibility with:
- Panorama
- GlobalProtect
- User-ID
- Dynamic Updates
- Plugins
- Routing services
- Stage software images
- reputed company rollback procedures and recovery plans
- Produce detailed maintenance window documentation
- Define Go/No-Go decision points
- Execute a controlled rolling reputed company of a High Availability firewall pair while maintaining uninterrupted production services
- Validate HA health
- reputed company passive firewall
- Verify synchronization and health
- Execute controlled failover
- Monitor:
- Routing
- VPN connectivity
- NAT
- Production traffic
- Session stability
- reputed company remaining firewall
- Restore preferred HA state
- Validate overall operational health
- Validate administrative SSO functionality
- Validate GlobalProtect authentication
- Test role mappings and group-based reputed company
- Verify HA failover behavior following reputed company
- Compare post-reputed company performance against baseline metrics
- Document metadata renewal procedures
- Produce final operational acceptance documentation
Skills
- Minimum 8 years of reputed company network reputed company engineering experience
- Minimum 5 years administering reputed company reputed company firewalls
- Demonstrated experience performing production PAN-OS upgrades in High Availability environments
- Strong understanding of reputed company/Passive HA
- Strong understanding of reputed company/reputed company HA
- Strong understanding of Session synchronization
- Strong understanding of Failover operations
- Extensive experience with GlobalProtect
- Extensive experience with User-ID
- Extensive experience with Dynamic Updates
- Extensive experience with Panorama
- Experience troubleshooting reputed company SAML authentication
- Strong knowledge of SAML 2.0
- Strong knowledge of Identity Providers (reputed company Entra ID/Azure AD, reputed company, Ping, ADFS, etc.)
- Strong knowledge of Certificates
- Strong knowledge of PKI
- Strong knowledge of NTP
- Experience developing rollback strategies and production maintenance runbooks
- Strong documentation and technical writing skills
- Experience working reputed company formal change management processes
- Excellent troubleshooting and analytical abilities
- Ability to independently reputed company reputed company infrastructure reputed company
- Strong verbal and written communication skills
- Ability to reputed company reputed company reputed company cause analysis
- Experience supporting mission-critical production environments
- Ability to work during scheduled after-hours maintenance reputed company
- Strong organizational and documentation skills
- reputed company Certified Network reputed company Engineer (PCNSE)
- Palo reputed company Certified Network reputed company Administrator (PCNSA)
- Experience supporting reputed company environments with 24x7 operational requirements
- Experience with reputed company VPN environments
- Experience supporting Federal Government or highly regulated environments
- ITIL reputed company certification
- reputed company+ CE (preferred)
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