Associate Lead Consultant - Palo Alto Firewall Job

Experience

Job Description

Required Technical/ Functional Competencies

Primary Focus (Must-Have):

Palo Alto SASE / Prisma Access / GlobalProtect
Incident investigation & resolution
Log analysis (Prisma, firewalls, Sentinel)
Policy review, optimization, and cleanup
Automation to improve troubleshooting efficiency (scripts, AI/automation ideas)

Secondary / Learnable Skill:

CyberArk Endpoint Privilege Manager (EPM)
Policy creation for least-privilege access
End-user engagement to define requirements
Automation of elevated privilege workflows

Key insight: Someone strong in Palo Alto SASE with the ability to learn CyberArk EPM is preferred; expecting expertise in both upfront is unrealistic.

Incident Management Expectations
Primary responsibility: Assist and lead incident resolution
Access:
Can make changes within Palo Alto SASE
Cannot directly change firewalls—must coordinate via tickets
Incident volume:
~ 6–10 incidents/day max, primarily during APAC hours
Recent example:
Global outage impacting Australia & India occurred during US late night
Highlighted need for time-zone-aligned coverage.

Upskill India infrastructure team on:
Palo Alto SASE platform concepts
Remote networks, tunnels, service connections
Improve and streamline:
Security rules in SASE
Policies in CyberArk EPM
Identify and implement automation opportunities

Required Behavioral Competencies

Accountability:

• Takes responsibility for and ensures accuracy of results and deadlines of the function and/or team and in completing own work.

Collaboration:

• Reaches out to others in team to ensure connections are made and team members are working together.
• Looks for ways to integrate work with other teams, identifying similarities and opportunities, making necessary changes in work to ensure successful integration.

Agility:

• Demonstrates openness to the possibilities that change presents and begins to plan for how role may change.
• Works with others to prepare for change.

Customer Focus:

• Identifies trends and patterns emerging from customer preferences and works towards customizing/ refining existing services to exceed customer needs and expectations.

Communication:

• Communicates well-organized ideas, information, and data to broad and diverse audiences across the Organization (through formal and informal presentations).
• Helps others identify their appropriate audience.

Drives Results:

• Sets realistic stretch goals for self & others and perseveres to follow through with resilience and remains calm in a crisis or stressful situation to exceed organization/client expectation.

Resolves Conflict:

• Identifies and understands the source of conflict, addresses, and overcomes.

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