Cybersecurity Senior Engineer | Network Security Infrastructure - Palo Alto

The Home Depot•GEORGIA - VIRTUAL - GA01, GA

8d•$120,000 - $160,000•Onsite

About The Position

The Home Depot is looking to hire a Senior Network Security Engineer to help secure and optimize our enterprise network infrastructure. This role supports firewall management, VPN technologies, automation initiatives, vulnerability remediation, and incident response, while also participating in onsite testing, troubleshooting, and deployment activities during project rollouts. Candidates must be located within driving distance to the Marietta Technology Center (MTC) to support business needs.

Requirements

Must be eighteen years of age or older.
Must be legally permitted to work in the United States.
3+ years of experience in network and security engineering or operations.
Solid understanding of switching and routing.
Solid understanding of Cyber Security.
Solid understanding of VPN technology.
Hands on experience with Linux operating systems.
Hands on experience with programming language such as Ansible or Python.

Nice To Haves

Cisco Certification is a plus.
Palo Alto Certification is a plus.
Hands on GlobalProtect VPN solution is a plus.
Experience with cloud services (GCP, AWS, or Azure) is preferred.
Enthusiastic about learning and advancing in network security.
Creative and collaborative team player.

Responsibilities

Support ongoing activities related to firewall lifecycle management.
Contribute and follow design specifications and instructions for tasks such as installing, configuring, decommissioning devices, and migrating application traffic behind firewalls.
Support GlobalProtect VPN related efforts such as deploying new portal/gateways and troubleshooting machine certificate chain/authentication flows etc.
Support in mitigating network security vulnerabilities and upgrading of firewall software leverage automated solutions.
Develop proficiency in these processes.
Understand the network environment to effectively respond to incident response and escalation, while providing value to our customers.
Leverage tools such as Solarwinds, Looker, Tableau to aid in troubleshooting and project implementation.
Develop and implement automation solutions using Ansible and Python.
Design automation workflows and capabilities in support of data collection, investigation and incident response.
Develop threat hunting and data analysis strategy and capabilities.
Identify and propose new technologies, methodologies and/or approaches to detecting malicious activity.
Utilize indicators to scope and respond proactively to emerging threats.
Design, build, configure, maintain and monitor cybersecurity threat defense capabilities and user access management.