Senior Network Security Consultant

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What you'll be doing:

The Network Security Consultant will provide delivery leadership within the Verizon Consulting Services team delivering projects primarily aligned to clients within the global regions. 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.
• Maintain day to day records of project work to allow accurate billing and reporting of consultancy time;
• Maintain an effective network of business contacts within Verizon and their partner community;
• Maintain and grow their knowledge to ensure this remains fully relevant to the network security services practice and its clients;

What we're looking for

You'll need to have:

• Bachelor's degree or four or more years of work experience.
• Four or more years of relevant work experience.
• Technical expertise 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; CyberArk
  • 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 working with operational environments following ITIL frameworks;
• 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;
• Strong technical knowledge of network security consulting, design and delivery experience.

Even better if you have one or more of the following:

• 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.
• Experience of multi-vendor, managed outsourcing environments;
• Excellent documentation and presentation skills;
• Following Certifications: CCNA/CCNP (Enterprise/Security/DataCenter); CISSP or equivalent; Palo Alto (PCNSA/PCNSE);Checkpoint(CCSA/CCSE); Fortinet (NSE), F5 Certified BIG-IP Administrator, Zscaler (ZCCA-IA, ZCCA-PA)
• Have strong presentation and written/verbal communication skills at multiple levels of an organization;

If Verizon and this role sound like a fit for you, we encourage you to apply even if you don't meet every "even better" qualification listed above.

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