Level: Senior

Job Field: IT, Security

Employment Type: Full Time

Contract Type: Permanent employment

Location: Cologne

Working Model: Hybrid, Onsite

Job Summary

In this role, you take technical responsibility for the planning and implementation of complex Palo Alto security projects, develop modern network architectures, and analyze security structures for optimization and troubleshooting.

Job Technologies

Your role in the team

Palo Alto Deep Dive: You take on the technical responsibility for planning, designing, and implementing complex security and firewall projects with a focus on Palo Alto technologies (e.g., Strata, Prisma, Panorama). You leverage your expertise to optimize existing environments and ensure that security solutions are efficient, scalable, and future-proof.
Architecture & Design: You develop and implement modern network and security architectures, for example in the areas of segmentation (e.g., microsegmentation) or Zero-Trust concepts. You analyze existing infrastructures, identify optimization potentials, and translate these into high-performance Next-Generation environments, taking into account current security standards and best practices.
Hands-on Troubleshooting: You analyze complex network, security, and routing issues in detail and are capable of systematically identifying and sustainably resolving even challenging disruptions. Your solid knowledge enables you to quickly narrow down causes and implement stable, high-performance solutions.
Teamwork & Presales: You work closely with internal network, infrastructure, and security teams and support knowledge sharing within the company. Additionally, you bring your technical expertise into presales activities, advise customers at eye level, and develop tailored, technically sound solution concepts together with the sales team.

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Our expectations of you

Education

Education & Experience: You hold a completed degree in IT Security, Computer Science, or a comparable qualification, or equivalent practical experience. Your solid technical foundation in network and security environments is crucial. Additionally, you bring at least five years of extensive hands-on experience in routing, switching, and firewalling, and have ideally worked with complex infrastructures as well as modern security architectures. Initial experience with Prisma products or in technical presales is a plus.

Qualifications

Working Style & Communication: You work independently, in a structured manner, and with a high quality standard. You approach complex challenges analytically and solution-oriented, maintaining an overview even in demanding situations. You impress with a professional demeanor as well as your service-oriented collaboration with clients and internal teams. Very good German and English skills, along with a Class B driver's license, complete your profile.

Experience

Palo Alto Expertise: You possess in-depth practical experience with Palo Alto Firewalls and are confident in their configuration, operation, and optimization. Ideally, you have also worked with Panorama for centralized management and bring knowledge of Prisma Access, SASE, or comparable cloud-based security solutions.
Certifications & Cloud Know-how: Ideally, you hold certifications such as PCNSE or PCNSA or are working towards obtaining them soon. Additionally, you have gained some practical experience with cloud platforms like Microsoft Azure, AWS, or Google Cloud and understand their significance in the context of modern security architectures.

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What we offer

Humanity & Flexibility: With us, you are not just an anonymous employee number. We foster an open 'Du' culture in our family-owned company and offer you the perfect balance through remote work from home or at our Cologne headquarters.
Technology of tomorrow: Dive into high-end security and network solutions. Together with your team, you will manage top infrastructures for our clients.
Knowledge advantage & freedom of movement: Stay at the forefront of technology. We offer you tailored training at the cutting edge, as well as short decision-making paths, flat hierarchies, and maximum agility for your ideas.
Strong Team & Sense of Purpose: Look forward to a work environment characterized by trust, support, and genuine team spirit. At Telonic, you take responsibility and actively shape the digital world of tomorrow.