Senior Network Engineer I

About Marriott Marriott Tech Accelerator is part of Marriott International a global leader in hospitality Marriott International Inc is a leading American multinational company that operates a vast array of lodging brands including hotels and residential properties It consists of over 30 well-known brands and nearly 8 900 properties situated in 141 countries and territories Role Title Senior Network Engineer I Position Summary As a member of the Global Network- Enterprise Network Team this position will be part of the newly formed Firewall Center of Excellence CoE This CoE will focus on design policy architecture delivery and overall operational excellence across the Enterprise Network product teams for Enterprise Offices Zero Trust Networking and Cloud Networking The successful candidate will have strong knowledge of Palo Alto Network firewalls NGFW Cloud Appliance Cloud Native and FWaaS Prisma Access This is a hands-on technical position that requires strong engineering discipline a DevSecOps mindset and the ability to drive security and compliance standards across the enterprise firewall infrastructure Job Responsibilities Technology Design Implementation Manage design and deploy Palo Alto NGFWs Panorama and Prisma Access solutions across data centers cloud and edge locations Implement centralized policy management and visibility using Panorama and Strata Cloud Manager Define standard rule sets service groups objects and tagging schemes for policy enforcement Operations Support Provide Level 2 Level 3 support for firewall rule issues incidents and tuning including authoring and or peer reviewing Change playbooks Maintain documentation including runbooks diagrams standard operating procedures Monitor and optimize firewall performance rule efficiency and high availability Governance Compliance Drive firewall rule review and recertification programs Support audit and compliance efforts for segmentation PCI and other standards Collaboration Partner with assigned Enterprise Network Product team to support service delivery Contribute to playbooks and onboarding guides Participate in roadmap planning vendor evaluations and emerging technology pilots Relevant Technologies Tools Firewall Platforms Palo Alto NGFW Panorama Prisma Access Strata Cloud Manager Cloud Firewall Services and Solutions for AWS Azure OCI GCP and AliCloud Cloud Networking AWS VPC Security Groups NACLs Transit Gateway Internet Gateway Direct Connect Security Services Palo Alto Threat Prevention URL Filtering WildFire Decryption Policies Infrastructure-as-Code Terraform Ansible GitHub Actions Logging Monitoring Panorama Logs Prisma Insights AWS CloudWatch Splunk SNMP packet captures Networking Protocols BGP IPsec GRE SSL TLS DNS NAT PBF Compliance IAM RBAC segmentation policy Zero Trust Architecture PCI-DSS Additional duties as may be assigned Skill and Experience 4 years of progressive experience in Network Network Security Engineering with a solid understanding of standard routing and switching protocols Explicit experience with Palo Alto firewalls NGFW Panorama Prisma Access and Threat Prevention features Solid understanding and experience with Palo Alto Panorama knowledge and experience of Strata Cloud Manager is a plus Experience managing firewalls in hybrid multi-cloud environments specifically with AWS experience with Azure AliCloud and GCP is a plus Advanced knowledge of firewall rule lifecycle security zoning application-based policies NAT rules and policy-based routing Experience with Infrastructure-as-Code e g Terraform Ansible for firewall automation Experience with log analysis packet capture and troubleshooting tools Other Skills and Attributes Experience working with security operations audits and compliance teams Familiarity with global segmentation architectures Zero Trust principles and East-West inspection Strong influencing skills and the ability to overcome barriers while driving change through collaboration Excellent verbal and written communication skills Solid understanding of Agile SAFe Strong attention to detail with the ability to operate effectively across multiple priorities Education and Certifications Bachelors degree in computer science or related technical field experience certification Certifications PCNSE AWS Advanced Networking CCNP Security Work location Hyderabad India Work mode Hybrid