Description

The Network Security Consultant will provide delivery leadership within the Professional Services consultancy team primarily aligned to clients in the USA region. This client-facing role includes the following responsibilities.

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 Verizon 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 ISE, 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)