Job Description
Description
The Network Security Consultant will provide delivery leadership within the Telecommunication Consultant Services team primarily aligned to clients in the USA region.
This client-facing role includes the following responsibilities.
Act as a technical lead in delivery of projects acting as a network security SME, ensuring that solutions remain in scope and are aligned to agreed business requirements, appropriate delivery methodologies are followed and that effective governance is applied;
Delivery of smaller stand-alone projects as required;
Provide support and guidance to consultants working on other Network Security projects;
Provide peer reviews of HLD, LLD and other project documentation as required;
Work with internal and external stakeholders to understand business requirements and prepare appropriate technical solution designs at both high and low levels.
Personal/General
Maintain day to day records of project work to allow accurate billing and reporting of consultancy time;
Maintain effective network of business contacts within Telecommunication and their partner community;
Maintain and grow their own knowledge to ensure this maintains fully relevant to the network security services practice and its clients;
Have strong presentation and written/verbal communications skills at multiple levels of an organization;
Have a minimum of 5+ years of network security consulting, design and delivery experience.
As a Network Security Consultant you will bring –
Technical expertise with very strong skills in most of the technologies below:
Firewalls: Checkpoint, Juniper, Palo Alto, Cisco ASA/FTD, Fortinet;
Proxy Services: Bluecoat (forward/reverse proxy), Zscaler;
Load Balancers: F5 (LTM/GTM);
IDP/IPS: FirePower/Sourcefire IPS/IDS, McAfee
Identity & Access Management: Cisco Client, Aruba Clearpass policy manager;
Routing & Switching: (CCNP/CCNA level), and good knowledge of SD-WAN deployments;
Good understanding of key technologies such as: VRF, dynamic routing (EIGRP/BGP/OSPF), MPLS, DMVPN, GRE, IPSec VPN
Remote Access VPN: GlobalProtect, Pulse Secure, Cisco AnyConnect;
Knowledge of Cloud deployments (Azure/AWS/GCP);
Experience with building, maintaining, reviewing all configurations/settings/policies on chosen technologies;
Experience of multi-vendor, managed outsourcing environments;
Experience working with operational environments following ITIL frameworks;
Excellent documentation and presentation skills;
Excellent troubleshooting skills (technical and non-technical);
Ability to review processes and procedures – and improve them;
Experience participating in network & system security projects to provide:
Business requirements analysis and support for Solutions Architects;
Production of detailed infrastructure designs including physical and virtual aspects of security components;
Migration of complex legacy infrastructures to new managed security services platforms;
Understanding and demonstrable experience working in an Agile environment and actively participating in a Scrum team;
Experience using Jira to help define user stories, tasks and associated estimates.
It is likely that you will have gained some of the following professional qualifications:
CCNA/CCNP (Enterprise/Security/Data Center); CISSP or equivalent;
Palo Alto (PCNSA/PCNSE);
Checkpoint (CCSA/CCSE);
Fortinet (NSE)
Job Tags
Permanent employment, Remote job, Work alone,