Senior Certification Manager
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Senior role executing certification strategies for product compliance at Palo Alto Networks. Collaborating across teams to drive optimal outcomes and manage certification processes.
Responsibilities:
- Own and execute certification strategies in close partnership with product management, sales, engineering and other stakeholders ensuring certification outcomes are aligned with company priorities, product direction, and compliance changes.
- Drive FedRAMP Moderate, High, and IL5 assessment activities in partnership with engineering, security, and external assessors
- Apply NIST 800-53, FedRAMP, and DoD SRG requirements to define clear, actionable expectations and deliverables for internal teams
- Lead audit and ConMon execution, including evidence coordination, remediation planning and triage, and POAM lifecycle management
- Author and maintain the System Security Plan (SSP) and supporting artifacts as systems and processes change
- Apply deep understanding of complex security and cloud architecture to evaluate control implementation, identify gaps, and drive remediation with engineering teams
- Build deep technical fluency across the product portfolio to lead discussions with assessors, agencies, and PMO certification bodies, allowing internal subject matter experts to remain focused on delivery
- Communicate clearly and effectively across all levels of the organization, from hands on engineers to executive leadership, as well as external certification stakeholders
- Manage certification execution with a program management mindset by owning project plans, timelines, dependencies, and risks, and by providing clear status to stakeholders and leadership
Requirements:
- 5+ years of experience supporting or leading technology-focused FedRAMP risk assessments, Continuous Monitoring, and remediation efforts
- Demonstrated ability to make risk based decisions and interpret security controls in complex, real work, environments
- Working knowledge of public cloud platforms (GCP, AWS, and/or Azure), including how cloud native architectures and services implement and enforce security controls
- Proven ownership of complex, cross functional initiatives, including planning, execution, and stakeholder communication
- Hands on authorship and long-term maintenance of SSPs and supporting certification documentation
- Ability to manage multiple, concurrent, initiatives in a complex, past paced, environments
- Demonstrated ability to drive outcomes across teams without direct reporting authority
- Hands on, self directed working style with a strong aptitude for understanding and working with complex technology products
- Experience working effectively in distributed environments with multiple teams operating across different priorities and time zones
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to engage effectively with engineers, business stakeholders, auditors, and leadership
- Proactive, curious, and transparent approach; assertive yet collaborative, comfortable taking ownership, asking hard questions, and driving work to completion with minimal supervision while embodying Palo Alto Networks values
- BS degree (or equivalent technical degree or equivalent military experience) required; MS preferred
- CISA, CRISC, CISSP or other similar security certifications desired
Benefits:
- Employee benefits may include restricted stock units and a bonus
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