Network Security Consultant Gerber 754

• 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.

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 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;
• As a Network Security Consultant you will bring:
• 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);

Qualifications:

• CCNA/CCNP (Enterprise/Security/Data Center); CISSP or equivalent;
• Palo Alto (PCNSA/PCNSE);
• Checkpoint (CCSA/CCSE);
• Fortinet (NSE)

Education/Experience:

• 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.
• Have a minimum of 5+ years of network security consulting, design and delivery experience.