Network Security Consultant

Overview

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.

Responsibilities

• 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.

Technical expertise

• 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
• Key technologies: VRF, dynamic routing (EIGRP/BGP/OSPF), MPLS, DMVPN, GRE, IPSec VPN
• Remote Access VPN: GlobalProtect, Pulse Secure, Cisco AnyConnect
• Cloud deployments (Azure/AWS/GCP)
• Experience building, maintaining, reviewing configurations/settings/policies on chosen technologies
• Experience in multi-vendor, managed outsourcing environments
• ITIL-based operations experience
• 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, detailed infrastructure designs, migration of legacy infrastructures, and working in Agile environments
• Experience using Jira to help define user stories, tasks and estimates

Qualifications

• CCNA/CCNP (Enterprise/Security/Data Centre)
• CISSP or equivalent
• Palo Alto (PCNSA/PCNSE)
• Check Point (CCSA/CCSE)
• Fortinet (NSE)

Seniority level

• Mid-Senior level

Employment type

• Full-time

Job function

• Information Technology

Industries

• Technology, Information and Internet

• 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.

Technical expertise

• 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
• Key technologies: VRF, dynamic routing (EIGRP/BGP/OSPF), MPLS, DMVPN, GRE, IPSec VPN
• Remote Access VPN: GlobalProtect, Pulse Secure, Cisco AnyConnect
• Cloud deployments (Azure/AWS/GCP)
• Experience building, maintaining, reviewing configurations/settings/policies on chosen technologies
• Experience in multi-vendor, managed outsourcing environments
• ITIL-based operations experience
• 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, detailed infrastructure designs, migration of legacy infrastructures, and working in Agile environments
• Experience using Jira to help define user stories, tasks and estimates, * CCNA/CCNP (Enterprise/Security/Data Centre)
• CISSP or equivalent
• Palo Alto (PCNSA/PCNSE)
• Check Point (CCSA/CCSE)
• Fortinet (NSE)