Palo Alto Director - Campus Cloud Networking 

United States, California 

22108377

Being the cybersecurity partner of choice, protecting our digital way of life.

Your Impact

• Provide Cloud and Campus Network engineering and operational leadership in close partnership with SRE and Platform teams.

• Ability to hire and retain a world-class and diverse engineering teams

• Build and lead a Networking Product Engineering organization that owns the architecture and deployment of Cloud and Campus Networking products.

• Working closely with SRE and Platform teams to ensure best-in-class availability and Infra-as-code capabilities of Cloud & Campus Networks

• Own definitions of service monitoring to ensure uptime and performance, including synthetic, real user, system, application performance, dashboards etc.

• Define, measure, and meet key Service Level Objectives including availability, performance, level of automation, incidents and chronic problems.

• Drive a results-oriented culture with a strong focus on execution, quality, and speed.

• Recognize process and product gaps early and able to drive changes to achieve better outcomes

Your Experience

• BA/BS degree in Computer Science or related technical field, or equivalent practical experience.

• 12+ years of strong hands-on technical experience including 5+ years spent in technical management leading teams.

• Extensive experience on architecture design of large scale data platforms, machine learning, analytics, and data-drive applications

• Experience building, scaling, and running production operations 24x7 for heterogeneous applications in a cloud environment.

• Proven experience attracting, retaining, and growing top engineering talent across geographically distributed teams

• Ability to nurture and support a strong operations culture: customer/service focus excellent technology; high quality implementations; self-motivated innovation and problem-solving.

• Demonstrated ability of establishing and maintaining metrics-based process improvement.

• Demonstrated ability to develop strong partnerships with those outside of your immediate organization.

• Experience in building and managing strong technical teams.

Required Technologies:

• Cloud Networking:

  • AWS (Amazon Web Services) and/or Azure networking (VPC, VPN, Direct Connect, Peering)

  • Google Cloud Platform (GCP) networking concepts

  • SD-WAN (Software-Defined Wide Area Networking)

  • Network Load Balancing (NLB)

  • Cloud Security (VPC security groups, IAM policies, Cloud Firewall)

  • Cloud Automation and Infrastructure as Code (Terraform, CloudFormation)

• Campus Networking:

  • Routing and Switching (Cisco, Juniper, Arista, or similar)

  • Wireless Networking (Wi-Fi 6, Wi-Fi 5, Wi-Fi controllers, access points)

  • Network Security (Firewalls, VPN, Network Access Control (NAC), IDS/IPS)

  • Software-Defined Networking (SDN)

  • LAN/WAN Architecture and Design

  • Network Monitoring and Management Tools (SolarWinds, Wireshark, etc.)

• Additional Skills:

  • High Availability Networking (HA) and Disaster Recovery (DR) planning

  • Data Center Networking (VLAN, STP, BGP, OSPF)

  • Automation/Scripting (Python, Ansible, Bash, etc.)

  • Virtualization (VMware NSX, Hyper-V)

  • Network Performance Monitoring (SNMP, NetFlow)

Compensation Disclosure

The compensation offered for this position will depend on qualifications, experience, and work location. For candidates who receive an offer at the posted level, the starting base salary (for non-sales roles) or base salary + commission target (for sales/commissioned roles) is expected to be between $0 - $0/YR. The offered compensation may also include restricted stock units and a bonus. A description of our employee benefits may be found .

All your information will be kept confidential according to EEO guidelines.