Senior Network Security Engineer
Penumbrainc
| Company | Penumbrainc |
| Category | Engineering |
| Location | Alameda |
| Remote | On-site (inferred) |
| Employment | Not stated |
| Level | Senior |
| Salary | Not stated by the employer |
| Posted | 22 Jul 2026 |
| Last verified | 30 Jul 2026 |
| Source | Employer career page (lever) |
Description
As a Senior Network Security Engineer at Penumbra, you will play a critical role in determining the company's long term goals. You will be a key member of the Information Security and Compliance team. This is a highly technical, hands-on role. The Sr. Network Engineer will collaborate with Security, IT, Manufacturing, and Engineering teams and be responsible for engineering solutions and supporting operational activities across a hybrid cloud environment. The role responsibilities include ensuring compliance with legal and regulatory requirements and maintaining company security policies, standards, and industry’s best practices.
What You’ll Work On
• Ensure the network security of on-premises and cloud-based systems, networks, infrastructure, and services.
• Enforce secure design standards and specifications for services, systems, and products.
• Responsible for network security solutions, control designs, and enforcement across our environment.
• Design and perform security assessments, configuration verification, configuration reporting, and other activities to validate control effectiveness.
• Engage and share results of security audits with the Information Security and business partners to promote changes vital to improve risk posture.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to develop and implement security measures supporting on-prem and cloud systems.
• Develop roadmaps, standards, and documentation for technical solutions and existing configurations. Serve as the subject matter expert across the network security environment.
• Respond to and lead, as appropriate, incident response activities for security incidents.
• Collaborate with IT and line of business teams to integrate security into new and existing systems, processes, and initiatives.
• Manage and configure security services, e.g., firewalls, intrusion detection/prevention systems, threat prevention technologies, VPNs, and other network security appliances.
• Create and maintain documentation for security procedures, designs, and protocols, conduct security training and awareness for staff as appropriate to the role.
• Stay current with emerging security threats and technologies in the security landscape. Ensure compliance with regulatory requirements and industry standards in the Company’s environment.
What You Contribute
• A Bachelor’s degree in computer science or related field with 10+ years of related experience, or equivalent combination of education and experience.
• Master’s degree preferred in Computer Science or Engineering with an emphasis in Computer Security or a related field
• Highly analytical and results and process-oriented mindset strongly desired
• 10+ years of hands-on design, enforcement and testing/validation of offensive security, defensive security, systems, and solutions engineering in a large enterprise
• 5+ years of hands-on security experience with cloud platforms, i.e., Azure, AWS or Google Cloud Platform services, automation, or IaC
• 5+ years of hands-on experience network security experience and expert-level knowledge on security technologies such as Palo Alto Firewalls, Cisco ISE, IPS, CASB, VPN management, SAML/OIDC NAC 802.1X, SIEM, SOAR, Radius/TACACS+, directory services
• Proficient with network topologies, routing protocols, i.e., OSPF, BGP, ISIS, SDN, and tunneling technologies.
• Proficient with diagramming and threat models, ability and competency to design and implement controls at scale based on risks
• Proficient in conducting solutions architecture, security design reviews, passionate about security and privacy research, technologies, and methods.
• Possess an understanding of past and emerging security exploits, threat actor motivations, and trends
• Understanding security and compliance frameworks, security engineering, software delivery, and SDLC in a hybrid environment
• Outstanding ethical standards and integrity.
• Excellent commun