Network Security Consultant

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)