Network Security Consultant
£500 per day (Umbrella only)
12-month contract
Reading, Hybrid
Description
The 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.
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.
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 Verizon 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 - Demonstratable high-level experience with Cisco and Palo Alto is key to this role.
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 ISE, Aruba Clearpass policy manager.
- Routing & Switching: (CCNP/CCNA level), and good knowledge of SD-WAN deployments.
- G ood 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 multivendor, 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)
- Palo Alto (PCNSA/PCNSE).
- Checkpoint (CCSA/CCSE).
- Fortinet (NSE)
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