Network Security Consultant Gerber 554

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.

Delivery

* 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)