Senior Network Security & SASE Architect Lead

Accenture PLC; Philadelphia (Philadelphia County); On-site; USD 150,000 - 300,000; Full time

Job summary

Accenture is seeking a Senior Security Architect to design, deploy and optimize Palo Alto Networks security architectures across large enterprise environments in the United States. You will lead multi-team delivery, develop target-state designs, and drive security program transformations with Zero Trust and SASE principles.

You will own end-to-end solution architecture for PAN-OS deployments, guide migration efforts, and collaborate with CISOs and security leaders to translate technical work

Qualifications

• Minimum 10 years of experience in enterprise network and network security engineering, architecture or consulting.
• Minimum 5 years of hands-on experience designing, deploying and troubleshooting Palo Alto Networks Next-Generation Firewalls.
• Minimum 3 years of hands-on experience designing and deploying Prisma Access.
• Minimum 1 year of hands-on experience with Strata Cloud Manager for cloud-managed NGFW.
• Minimum 5 years of experience architecting enterprise networks and network security, including routing, IPsec VPN, NAT and SD-WAN.

Responsibilities

• Lead delivery of multi-workstream programs across onshore and global delivery teams.
• Serve as highest technical escalation for PAN-OS, GlobalProtect, Prisma Access and related technologies.
• Define runbooks, SLAs and KPIs; oversee handover from build to run.
• Produce architecture decisions, migration and test plans, and executive readouts.
• Interpret security controls against regulatory requirements within designs.

Skills

Zero Trust

ZTNA

SASE

Macro/Micro-segmentation

Palo Alto Networks

PAN-OS

Prisma Access

Strata Cloud Manager

GlobalProtect

Education

Bachelor’s degree or equivalent

Tools

PAN-OS

Prisma Access

Strata Cloud Manager

Panorama

GlobalProtect

CN-Series

VM-Series

Cloud NGFW

PAN-OS APIs

Job description

Accenture is seeking a Senior Security Architect to design, deploy and optimize Palo Alto Networks security architectures across large enterprise environments in the United States. You will lead multi-team delivery, develop target-state designs, and drive security program transformations with Zero Trust and SASE principles.

You will own end-to-end solution architecture for PAN-OS deployments, guide migration efforts, and collaborate with CISOs and security leaders to translate technical work