Associate Specialist, Infrastructure Engineer, Network Firewall Services

Job Description

Associate Specialist, Infrastructure Engineer, Network Firewall Services

The Opportunity

• Based in Hyderabad, join a global healthcare biopharma company and be part of a 130- year legacy of success backed by ethical integrity, forward momentum, and an inspiring mission to achieve new milestones in global healthcare.
• Be part of an organisation driven by digital technology and data-backed approaches that support a diversified portfolio of prescription medicines, vaccines, and animal health products.
• Drive innovation and execution excellence. Be a part of a team with passion for using data, analytics, and insights to drive decision-making, and which creates custom software, allowing us to tackle some of the world's greatest health threats.

Our Technology Centers focus on creating a space where teams can come together to deliver business solutions that save and improve lives. An integral part of our company’s IT operating model, Tech Centers are globally distributed locations where each IT division has employees to enable our digital transformation journey and drive business outcomes. These locations, in addition to the other sites, are essential to supporting our business and strategy.

A focused group of leaders in each Tech Center helps to ensure we can manage and improve each location, from investing in growth, success, and well-being of our people, to making sure colleagues from each IT division feel a sense of belonging to managing critical emergencies. And together, we must leverage the strength of our team to collaborate globally to optimize connections and share best practices across the Tech Centers.

Role Overview

As a member of the Network Firewall Services (product-oriented team), the successful candidate will be responsible for the support, development, design, planning and management Firewall infrastructure cross all region and different environment (Azure, AWS, on prem).

The role involves detailed design/maintenance of firewall infrastructure, with cooperation of security and compliance teams.  As part of job is also maintain/prepare FW API integration with our internally developed Automation or with 3rd party

What will you do in this role

• Support/maintain Firewall infrastructure (plus Lifecycle, Assets history) 
• Design and deploy the architecture that support the operated services.
• Develop plans for enhancement/new service onboarding and effectively communication new capability to security/compliance or other architecture teams (Cloud, DC, Manufacturing).
• Prepare and execute integration firewall services to other products (DC, Cloud).  Close cooperation and coordination with Tier2 Operations
• Cooperation with DEV part of team on automations (API recommendation, requirement’s definition)

What should you have

• 2+ years functional and technical experience with support of Firewall environment
• Fluent in English, in both verbal and written communication.
• Possesses expert knowledge of Firewall including management (Cisco FTD/FMC, Palo Alto/Panorama GUI and CLI). Expert knowledge engineering/supporting of firewall environment with hundreds of devices (large scale implementations)
• Ability to provide support for Real-time events providing moderated services (support shifts).
• Ability to acquire new skills in a diverse environment (mainly about DEVOPS, participating on Scrum projects for our environment)

Desired Experience and Skills:

• Ansible (Tower)
• Confluence/Jira

Our technology teams operate as business partners, proposing ideas and innovative solutions that enable new organizational capabilities. We collaborate internationally to deliver services and solutions that help everyone be more productive and enable innovation.

What we look for

Imagine getting up in the morning for a job as important as helping to save and improve lives around the world. Here, you have that opportunity. You can put your empathy, creativity, digital mastery, or scientific genius to work in collaboration with a diverse group of colleagues who pursue and bring hope to countless people who are battling some of the most challenging diseases of our time. Our team is constantly evolving, so if you are among the intellectually curious, join us—and start making your impact today.

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