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Shift Hours: UK Hours Location: Guragon/Hybrid Long Term Contract Opportunity Job SummaryWe are looking for a highly skilled Palo Alto Firewall Engineer to design, implement, manage, and troubleshoot next-generation firewall solutions across on-prem, cloud, and hybrid environments. The ideal candidate must have deep hands-on experience with Palo Alto Networks firewalls, Panorama, Strata Cloud Manager (SCM), and Palo Alto’s cloud firewalls in AWS and Azure. Candidate should also have good understanding of Network segmentation, DORA legislation. This role also requires strong knowledge in capacity planning, scalability assessment, and overall network security governance.Key ResponsibilitiesConduct yourself as a seasoned technical professional.ENS stakeholder, delivering regional ‘One team’ approach.Responsible for operation excellence and taking appropriate ownershipParticipate in and adhere to ENS engineering standards.Responsible for resolving High Severity Incidents, providing technical support as required.Monitor and manage ENS infrastructure and services, achieving OLAs and KPIs.Work with suppliers and vendors to ensure all services meet expectation and SLA.Provide Operational experience, helping further develop and elevate the ENS team.Contribute to strategic direction of technologies (roadmaps) from a technical and theoretical perspective.Ensure delivered solutions transition into ‘supportable services’ via the ready for service framework.Mentor and cross train ENS staff as requiredYour skills and experience:Degree holder in Computer Engineering, Telecommunications, or related disciplines.Be considered as a network security expert, with deep subject matter expertise in a number of technologies and a broad understanding across network security and non-network technology.Strong hands on experience of managing Firewall and security products including but not limited:Palo Alto Firewalls including Panarama (VPN/IPS/Wildfire)ZScaler Cloud ProxiesF5 server load balancing and security technology (GTM/LTM/ASM/AFM)Network Segmentation & DORA legislation.Excellent understanding of network security architecture, design and support.Excellent business scenes for a technical support environment.Proven Service Management (ITIL) experience, specifically incident, problem and change managementGood analytical skill and able to solve complicated problem logicallyGood command of spoken and written EnglishGood interpersonal skills, communication skills, project management skills and vendor management skillsMust be flexible in approach to work content and responsibilities.Able to work under pressure within a busy environment and effectively multi-taskingMust be a self-starter and able to work with a minimum of supervision.Desirable skills/qualifications:Experience working in a ‘DevOps’ role and familiar with SDN, NFV, Cloud and Cloud Management Platforms, and demonstrable experience in integrating technologies through code and the use of APIs.Professional qualifications (against relevant technologies).Knowledge of supporting “ECN Connectivity” e.g. Radianz, Tradeweb, Bloomberg Trading etc.Knowledge of monitoring and analysis tools ( SolarWinds, Wireshark, etc).Knowledge of DNS & DHCP (IPAM).Experience of UNIX / Linux and scripting (Python/Ansible/Perl/Shell), Terraform and automationConcepts on data centre designAbility to work with Audit (Internal & external) functions and certification organisations. Personal Characteristics:Enthusiastic about technology, innovative in approachAbility to thrive in a technology driven, rapidly changing and expanding environmentA desire to do things the right way, whilst remaining focused on team and business objectives