Network Engineer

Network Engineer - Palo Alto

12 Months

Sydney - Hybrid

$900-$1,000 p/d

About the opportunity:

A large financial enterprise is modernising its Palo Alto firewall estate, and we’re looking for a hands on engineer to help deliver it. You’ll run a like for like hardware refresh and move the routing setup onto Palo Alto’s newer routing engine.

What you’ll be doing:

• Delivering a firewall hardware refresh end to end, including config transfer, licence checks, HA pair swaps and staged cutovers
• Moving existing routing configuration onto logical routers, covering BGP, OSPF, static routes, redistribution and route filtering
• Working with a purpose built conversion tool, reviewing its output, fixing issues and feeding back improvements
• Proving every change works through routing table comparisons, neighbour checks and traffic path testing
• Planning change windows with network operations and supporting the environment after go live
• Troubleshooting routing, HA and dataplane issues as they come up

What we need to see:

• Extensive hands on Palo Alto experience in large enterprise environments
• Strong BGP and OSPF knowledge
• A track record on large firewall refresh or migration projects, including cutover and rollback
• Confidence on the CLI for validation and troubleshooting
• PCNSE, PCNSC or Palo Alto NGFW Engineer certification

Desirables:

• Experience with the Advanced Routing Engine or logical routers
• Panorama in a large managed estate
• BFD and policy based forwarding experience
• Background in financial services or similarly regulated environments