Cybersecurity Sr. Engineer

The Home Depot • Atlanta, GA

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About The Position

The Cybersecurity Sr. Engineer designs and maintains cybersecurity threat defense capabilities and user access management. The role develops automation for data collection, investigations, and incident response, and creates threat-hunting and data-analysis strategies and capabilities. It identifies new technologies and approaches for detecting malicious activity and uses indicators to scope and respond proactively to emerging threats.

The position also involves extensive enterprise firewall and network security engineering, including Palo Alto and legacy firewall environments, routing, VPNs, centralized firewall management, log analysis, security threat hunting, reporting, and packet inspection.

Requirements

• Must be at least 18 years old.
• Must be legally permitted to work in the United States.
• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Information Technology, or a related field.
• Five years of progressive, post-baccalaureate experience in a related occupation.
• Five years of experience deploying, configuring, and managing modern stateful and next-generation firewalls, including App-ID, User-ID, Content-ID (IPS/IDS, malware prevention, and URL filtering), and security/NAT policies.
• Five years of experience deploying and managing Palo Alto next-generation firewalls, including hardware and virtual series such as PA-5400s and PA-7080s.
• Five years of experience managing legacy environments such as Juniper SRX 5400, Cisco ASA, and Netscreens.
• Five years of experience managing large-scale enterprise advanced routing frameworks, including SD-WAN hub-and-spoke setups via Palo Alto firewalls.
• Five years of experience managing external routing, including autonomous systems, route filtering, prefix lists, and path manipulation.
• Five years of experience designing and troubleshooting site-to-site IPsec and remote-access SSL/TLS VPN tunnels, including GlobalProtect and AnyConnect, across multiple data center platforms.
• Five years of experience managing Palo Alto firewalls with Panorama 11.0, including configuration templates, Device Groups, log aggregation, and coordinated firmware/software upgrades.
• Five years of experience with PAN-OS features, web interface changes, and advanced routing engine capabilities.
• Five years of experience with advanced log management, including forwarding Syslog data to Splunk, writing SPL queries, tracking traffic patterns, and building alerts.
• Five years of experience with business intelligence and reporting for network and security data, including dashboards for bandwidth utilization, threat metrics, or compliance reporting.
• Five years of deep packet inspection experience, including capturing and analyzing PCAP files, filtering TCP/UDP headers, analyzing three-way handshakes, identifying asymmetric routing, and locating connection drops or latency.

Responsibilities

• Design automation workflows and capabilities for data collection, investigation, and incident response.
• Develop threat-hunting and data-analysis strategy and capabilities.
• Identify and propose technologies, methodologies, and approaches for detecting malicious activity.
• Use indicators to scope and proactively respond to emerging threats.
• Design, build, configure, maintain, and monitor cybersecurity threat defense capabilities and user access management.
• Deploy, configure, and manage modern stateful and next-generation firewalls, including security policies and security features.
• Translate legacy configuration and policy rule sets into modern, application-aware rule sets during hardware refreshes or vendor migrations.
• Manage enterprise routing frameworks, external routing, and VPN tunnels across data center platforms.
• Use Panorama to manage firewall configurations, logs, and software upgrades across firewalls.
• Configure log forwarding, write Splunk searches, analyze traffic patterns, and create automated alerts for anomalous behavior.
• Build dashboards and reports for bandwidth utilization, threat metrics, and compliance reporting.
• Capture and analyze packet data to troubleshoot connectivity, routing, and latency issues.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior