Palo Alto Networks · 5 hours ago
Sr. IT Systems Engineer
Santa Clara, CA
Full-time
Onsite
Mid, Senior Level
$93K/yr - $150K/yr
3+ years expPalo Alto Networks is a leading cybersecurity company dedicated to protecting digital lifestyles through innovative technology. They are seeking a Senior IT Systems Engineer to manage and support identity and access technologies, focusing on user identity and SSO services, while enhancing user experience through automation.
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No H1B
U.S. Citizen Only
Responsibilities
Implement and support the SSO
MFA and user access provisioning services
Develop and maintain IAM policies, procedures, and standards
Partner with IT and product teams for SSO and user registration integration
Maintain and support API based micro services for customizing customer and partner registration
Manage scalability, capacity planning, redundancy, and resiliency
Maintain service availability and performance SLAs based on business and product requirements
Work with other Identity Platform engineers to deploy and maintain services, capacity planning, create and review operational runbooks
Contribute to future roadmap, design, deployment, validation, operations and DR/BCP
Design proactive service monitoring, alerting and trend analysis of the services, and implement self healing
Participate in on-call support rotation and handle IAM-related incidents as needed
Qualification
Required
3+ years of hands-on experience in managing and supporting identity & access technologies, like Okta, Azure AD, Ping Identity, CyberArk
Very strong knowledge of SSO, MFA and user identity management domain
Advanced understanding of SAML, OAuth, and SCIM standards and protocols and practical knowledge of their implementation
Knowledge of directory services, preferably active directory
Familiarity with privileged access management platforms
Ability to work cross-functionally across multiple business units, such as IT application, infrastructure, and product development teams, primarily integrating applications and users with identity services
Strong technical writing skills to support required documentation
Passion, drive, energy, a sense of humor, and a great attitude!
Hands on experience with cloud providers (GCP/ AWS)
Strong scripting / automation skills in Python / Bash / Go
Bachelors/Masters degree in Computer Science, Information Technology or technical stream with the equivalent combination of work experience or equivalent military experience required
Due to the nature of the work environment (Fed/IL5), US Citizenship is required for this position
Benefits
Restricted stock units
Bonus
Company
Palo Alto Networks
Palo Alto Networks is a cybersecurity company that offers cybersecurity solutions for organizations.
10001+ employees
Funding
Current Stage
Public CompanyTotal Funding
$65MKey Investors
Icon VenturesLehman HoldingsGlobespan Capital Partners
2012-07-20IPO
2008-11-03Series C· $10M
2008-08-18Series C· $27M
Leadership Team
Helmut Reisinger
CEO EMEA
Nikesh Arora
Chairman CEO
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