Palo Alto Network Specialist
Brooksource
We are seeking experienced professionals with strong Palo Alto firewall administration backgrounds.
Minimum Required Experience
- At least 3 years of direct, hands-on administration of Palo Alto firewalls (3K and 5K series) managed by Panorama.
Required Technical Experience
- Building and maintaining Security and NAT policies
- Managing HA firewall active/standby configurations
- Supporting HA pairs with multiple virtual firewalls
- Strong CLI usage for troubleshooting and performance data collection
- Performing PAN-OS upgrades on HA firewalls and HA Panorama management consoles (minimum two upgrade cycles completed)
- Administering and troubleshooting:
- GlobalProtect VPN environments
- IPSEC VPN tunnels to WAN and third-party vendors
- Mixed-vendor environments (including Cisco and Cradlepoint devices)
- Working knowledge of BGP for VPN tunnel configuration
- Experience with Palo Alto dedicated log collectors
- Use of firewall templates and template stacks in Panorama
- User-ID integration with Active Directory and RADIUS
- Multi-factor authentication implementation with Azure
- SSL certificate implementation and lifecycle use on Palo Alto firewalls
- External Dynamic List configuration and management
- Using firewall logs to inform and automate policy decisions
- Effective use of TAG objects beyond rule documentation/identification
- Experience working directly with Palo Alto Support to resolve platform issues
Additional Network Experience
- Layer 2 and 3 network experience preferred
