Network security consultant

DescriptionThe 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.

DeliveryAct 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 bringTechnical 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, McAfeeIdentity & 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 VPNRemote 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);bility 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)