Palo Alto Networks

Sr. IT Systems Engineer

Palo Alto Networks$93K — $150K *
Information Technology
Less than 5 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • US Citizenship required due to government contract
  • Onsite location in Reston, VA or Dallas, TX is mandatory
  • 3+ years of hands-on experience in identity & access technologies
  • Strong knowledge of SSO, MFA, and user identity management
  • Advanced understanding of SAML, OAuth, and SCIM protocols
  • Ability to collaborate across IT, application, infrastructure, and product teams
  • Strong technical writing skills for documentation
  • Bachelor's/Master's in Computer Science or related field or equivalent experience

Responsibilities

  • Implement and support SSO, MFA, and user access provisioning
  • Develop and maintain IAM policies, procedures, and standards
  • Collaborate with IT and product teams for SSO integration
  • Maintain API-based microservices for customer and partner registration
  • Manage scalability, capacity planning, redundancy, and resiliency
  • Ensure service availability and performance SLAs based on requirements
  • Deploy and maintain services while creating and reviewing operational runbooks
  • Contribute to design, deployment, validation, operations, and BCP/DR efforts
  • Implement proactive monitoring and alerting for services
  • Participate in on-call support rotation for IAM incidents

Benefits

  • Comprehensive benefits package
  • Opportunities for professional development and career growth
  • Dynamic and innovative working environment
  • Collaborative team culture in a fast-paced setting
  • Engagement in impactful cybersecurity work
Full Job Description
Job Summary

The Team

Information Technology - Working at a high-tech cybersecurity company within Information Technology is a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity. You'll join the brightest minds in technology, creating, building, and supporting tools and enabling our global teams on the front line of defense against cyberattacks. We're connected by one mission but driven by the impact of that mission and what it means to protect our way of life in the digital age. Join a dynamic and fast-paced team of people who feel excited by the prospect of a challenge and feel a thrill at resolving technical gaps that inhibit productivity.

Job Summary

Palo Alto Networks is looking for a talented Senior IT Systems Engineer, Identity & Access Management who will be responsible for maintainability, build and configuration of user identity & authentication services, single sign on (SSO) and access automation. The ideal candidate enjoys working in a fast-paced environment with highly innovative technologies and will make a big impact in this highly visible role strengthening our identity services.

Key Responsibilities
  • Implement and support the SSO. MFA and user access provisioning services
  • Develop and maintain IAM policies, procedures, and standards
  • Partner with IT and product teams for SSO and user registration integration
  • Maintain and support API based micro services for customizing customer and partner registration
  • Manage scalability, capacity planning, redundancy, and resiliency
  • Maintain service availability and performance SLAs based on business and product requirements
  • Work with other Identity Platform engineers to deploy and maintain services, capacity planning, create and review operational runbooks
  • Contribute to future roadmap, design, deployment, validation, operations and DR/BCP
  • Design proactive service monitoring, alerting and trend analysis of the services, and implement self healing
  • Participate in on-call support rotation and handle IAM-related incidents as needed


Qualifications

Required Qualifications
  • Due to the nature of this project/government contract, this position requires US Citizenship
  • Must be located in Reston, VA or Dallas, Tx to be onsite.
  • 3+ years of hands-on experience in managing and supporting identity & access technologies, like Okta, Azure AD, Ping Identity, CyberArk
  • Very strong knowledge of SSO, MFA and user identity management domain
  • Advanced understanding of SAML, OAuth, and SCIM standards and protocols and practical knowledge of their implementation
  • Ability to work cross-functionally across multiple business units, such as IT application, infrastructure, and product development teams
  • Strong technical writing skills to support required documentation
  • Bachelors/Masters degree in Computer Science, Information Technology or technical stream with the equivalent combination of work experience or equivalent military experience required


Preferred Qualifications
  • Knowledge of directory services, preferably active directory
  • Familiarity with privileged access management platforms
  • Hands on experience with cloud provides (GCP/ AWS)
  • Strong scripting / automation skills in Python / Bash /Go


Compensation Disclosure

The compensation offered for this position will depend on qualifications, experience, and work location. For candidates who receive an offer at the posted level, the starting base salary (for non-sales roles) or base salary + commission target (for sales/com-missioned roles) is expected to be the annual range listed below. The offered compensation may also include restricted stock units and a bonus. A description of our employee benefits may be found here.

$93,000.00 - $150,500.00/yr

About Palo Alto Networks

Palo Alto Networks, Inc. is an American multinational cybersecurity company with headquarters in Santa Clara, California. Its core products are a platform that includes advanced firewalls and cloud-based offerings that extend those firewalls to cover other aspects of security. The company serves over 70,000 organizations in over 150 countries, including 85 of the Fortune 100. It is home to the Unit 42 threat research team and hosts the Ignite cybersecurity conference.
Learn more about Palo Alto Networks
Size
11,870 employees
Market Cap
$42.6 billion
Industry
Net Income
-$368.2 million
Founded
2005
5 Year Trend
+25.7%
Revenue
$3.7 billion
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