IT Services- Firewall Engineer Associate

PwC•Atlanta, GA

6d•$63,000 - $121,500•Onsite

About The Position

At PwC, our people in cybersecurity focus on protecting organisations from cyber threats through advanced technologies and strategies. They work to identify vulnerabilities, develop secure systems, and provide proactive solutions to safeguard sensitive data. Those in information security at PwC will focus on protecting sensitive data and systems from cyber threats through risk assessments, security audits, and implementing robust security measures. Your work will help enable the confidentiality, integrity, and availability of information assets for clients. Driven by curiosity, you are a reliable, contributing member of a team. In our fast-paced environment, you are expected to adapt to working with a variety of clients and team members, each presenting varying challenges and scope. Every experience is an opportunity to learn and grow. You are expected to take ownership and consistently deliver quality work that drives value for our clients and success as a team. As you navigate through the Firm, you build a brand for yourself, opening doors to more opportunities. Examples of the skills, knowledge, and experiences you need to lead and deliver value at this level include but are not limited to: Apply a learning mindset and take ownership for your own development. Appreciate diverse perspectives, needs, and feelings of others. Adopt habits to sustain high performance and develop your potential. Actively listen, ask questions to check understanding, and clearly express ideas. Seek, reflect, act on, and give feedback. Gather information from a range of sources to analyse facts and discern patterns. Commit to understanding how the business works and building commercial awareness. Learn and apply professional and technical standards (e.g. refer to specific PwC tax and audit guidance), uphold the Firm's code of conduct and independence requirements. This position will be part of PwC IT Services (US) LLC, a member of the PwC network of firms. PwC IT Services (US) LLC (a wholly owned subsidiary of PwC IT Services Limited) provides technology services to other PwC member firms. PwC refers to the PwC network and/or one or more of its member firms, each of which is a separate legal entity. Please see www.pwc.com/structure for further details. Team focuses on operational engineering activities across the suite of security tools managed in the NIS central service environment. The core areas of focus for Perimeter Security are Firewalls (Cloud, Physical, Virtual, WAF), Proxies, IPS, and VPN. This includes but is not limited to Incident Response and Resolution, Tuning and maintaining solutions, improving security posture, operational projects, and overall operational process improvement.

Requirements

Minimum Degree Required: High School Diploma
Minimum Years of Experience: 0-2 year(s) of progressive professional roles involving information security and/or IT management.
Full-time engineering expertise with Palo Alto Networks, including experience building/deploying/configuring/managing firewalls in an enterprise level environment
Experience in networking and firewalls
Troubleshooting and resolution of complex network security incidents, to include packet capture and analysis, log review, and critical thinking
Possessing experience with Palo Alto administration as well as the design and implementation of best practices
Solving technical problems through engineering, including requirements analysis, design, development, implementation and testing
Possessing stakeholder management skills and the ability to set expectations and respond to business needs in a complex high-pressure environment
Demonstrating Security Risk Assessment for firewall rule implementations
Managing Documentation for perimeter security environments
Understanding security technology operational industry standards
Contributing to a central technology service organization
Navigating a matrix organization and collaborating with multiple stakeholders across functional and technical skill sets.
Leveraging facts and data when approaching problems and considering both the customer's perspective as well as the enterprise's perspective while focusing on overarching goals and objectives
Exhibiting capabilities to multitask, performing and delivering results as both part of a team and independently
Demonstrating relationship skills that foster an inclusive and collaborative environment for stakeholders and team members
Collaborating with design and build engineering teams to ensure maximum capability of security solutions are achieved in the run state.