Cyber Security Engineer - Palo Alto/Checkpoint/Fortigate, Zscaler, IDS/IPS, WAF- 3-6 Years - Pune

• Lead engineering and delivery for SWG, Proxy, SASE, Secure Access, and IPS/IDS across a global enterprise environment. 

• Administer and harden Zscaler (ZIA/ZPA) and Palo Alto platforms, including Panorama, Prisma Access, NGFW, and Threat Prevention. 

• Design and maintain scalable security policies for internet access, private application access, SSL inspection, traffic steering, and threat prevention. 

• Drive high-quality changes through safe rollout planning, validation, rollback readiness, and post-change review. 

• Improve platform reliability, policy quality, and user experience through standardization, tuning, and operational improvements. 

• Partner with SOC/IR, Network Operations, infrastructure, application teams, and vendors to deliver secure and reliable services. 

• Improve logging, telemetry, SIEM integration, and operational visibility while reducing noise and strengthening control effectiveness. 

• Track and improve key measures such as policy accuracy, false positives, service reliability, change success, and time to mitigation. 

• Lead vendor escalations and hold partners accountable for response quality, root cause depth, and durable resolution. 

• Bachelor’s degree in a related field and 3 - 6 years of experience, or equivalent practical experience. 

• Experience in network security or security engineering roles. 

• Strong hands-on experience with SWG, Proxy, SASE, or Secure Access in enterprise environments. 

• Strong knowledge of Zscaler ZIA/ZPA and Palo Alto technologies including Panorama, NGFW, Threat Prevention, and Prisma Access. 

• Experience with IPS/IDS tuning and false-positive reduction. 

• Experience with proxy policy, SSL inspection, traffic steering, secure access, threat prevention, and user access troubleshooting. 

• Strong networking and security fundamentals including TCP/IP, TLS, DNS, routing, NAT, certificates, and zero trust. 

• Experience in large-scale global environments and ability to serve as an escalation point during major incidents. 

• Proven ability to mentor engineers, review work, and communicate effectively across teams. 

It’s a bonus if you have 

• Familiarity with Terraform, Python, CI/CD, or automation for security platforms. 

• Exposure to unix based open source platforms. 

• Exposure to WAF technologies (Akamai, Cloudflare, or F5 Distributed Cloud), regulated environments. 

• Experience with Prisma Access, cloud NGFW, or hybrid architectures. 

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