Certified Palo Alto Engineer

SUMMARY:
Datacentrix is looking for a Certified Palo Alto Engineers to provides day-to-day support for firewall engineering and operation tasks. Required certifications: Palo Alto: PCCSE/PCNSE and  Firewall: NSE 7 and above.

POSITION INFO:
Qualifications and Experience:

• Matric/Grade 12 plus Degree/Diploma in IT/Computer Science or related field
• Palo Alto or Fortinet Firewall Palo Alto: PCCSE/PCNSE - essential and or
• Minimum Firewall: NSE7 or FCSS certification is mandatory
• Strong working knowledge of major operating systems, such as Windows, UNIX and Linux to include system administration and security.
• Network security controls such as IDS, IPS, DLP and WAF
• Enterprise network architecture, design, and support to include network hardware, network protocols, and data flows

• Provides day-to-day support for firewall engineering and operation tasks and level 1 & 2 on-call technical support for the Firewall Engineering and Operations team; including assisting peers with issues and escalation.
• Supports the implementation and ongoing operations of network access control devices to include firewalls and SSL VPN devices.
• Work collaboratively across a variety of business units to implement new technology, support existing, and at times do so after normal business hours.
• Build and configure solutions in the development, test, and production environment; including documenting the security infrastructure and design
• Manage problems, maintain vendor relationships, and assist operations with vendor escalation and issue resolution.
• Facilitate device refresh of network security devices with a focus on capacity, manageability, and security of new and existing security infrastructure.
• Participate in team on-call coverage rotation
• Design, deploy and support enterprise-class Fortinet and SSL VPN devices.
• Design, deploy and support Firewall
• Complex troubleshooting to include network protocol and log analysis, raw data captures, and the correlation of disparate events spanning multiple devices and platforms.