Network Engineer (Palo Alto, Prisama Access)

Network Engineer (Palo Alto, Prisama Access)

Initial 3 months - £400-£450 per day (inside IR35) - 5 days onsite per week from South London office, with some flexibility to go down to 3-4 in time

Our South London public sector client are looking for a Network Engineer with a strong background in network security who can deliver high quality implementation, optimisation, and support for Palo Alto NGFW, Panorama, and Prisma Access environments.

The client have advised they are looking for someone with 5-10 years' experience of the Palo Alto ecosystem as their main focus other Firewall or network platforms is a desirable bonus.

Key skills required for the Network Engineer (Palo Alto, Prisama Access):

• Vast commercial experience of Palo Alto Networks NGFW (Primary Focus) and Prisma Access
• Deploy, configure, and optimise Palo Alto Next-Generation Firewalls and Prisma Access, leveraging features such as App-ID, Use-ID, and Content-ID.
• Assist with Firewall rulebase design, cleanup, optimisation, and migration activities.
• Implement secure remote and site-to-site VPN configurations.
• Panorama Management
• Configure and manage Panorama for security policy standardisation, device groups, templates, and configuration life cycle management.
• Configure and manage Prisma Access for Remote Access solution.

Key skills and experience required for the Network Engineer (Palo Alto, Prisama Access)

• PCNSE certification (Highly desirable)
• 5+ years' hands-on experience in network security engineering.
• Strong understanding of Firewalls, routing, switching, VPN technologies.
• Experience with identity services (Azure AD, SAML, MFA) is beneficial.

Desirable Additional Experience

• Juniper Mist
• Cisco Wireless
• Azure and AWS exposure