Security Consulting Engineer

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Job Summary:

The Professional Services Security Consulting Engineer will have deep technical expertise with design and troubleshooting and recommending solutions and/or process changes.  The Security Consulting Engineer's role within our organization is someone that acts independently to determine and develop approaches to solutions, has general knowledge of other related disciplines, and interacts frequently with multiple organizations, levels of leadership and external customers. General understanding of PS business metrics and drivers to help shape client solution approach and team development.  Additionally, provides strong PM input to help shape and guide projects while mentoring junior resources to eventually do the same.

Key Responsibilities:

· While maintaining big picture focus for client, the Security Consulting Engineer will regularly work independently on all aspects of customer engagements to successful completion without supervision.

· Responsibilities include oversight of the design, development, implementation and analysis of security architectures such as: Cisco NGFW, Palo Alto Strata, Network Access Control (e.g., ISE, ClearPass), Palo Alto Prisma Access, and F5 Networks etc.

· Act as the primary point of contact for customers and vendors throughout project or program.

· Typical tasks may include greenfield implementation, migrations, break/fix, upgrades, loading software maintenance releases.

Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities:

· Cisco Firepower Threat Defense (FTD) and Meraki MX

· Cisco Secure Client, Secure Access, Secure Endpoint and Secure Analytics (at least two required)

· Network Access Control (e.g., ISE, ClearPass)

· Palo Alto NGFW

· Palo Alto Prisma Access (preferred)

· Public Clouds (Azure, AWS and GCP) – Just the fundamentals and public cloud routing

· EDR/XDR tools (preferred)

· F5 Networks (preferred)

· Former professional services and/or consulting experience preferred

· Extensive understanding of complex network design.

· Excellent communication skills. 

· Strong engineering and operational experience in large enterprise networks.

· Exceptional at multi-tasking, time management, and remaining flexible in a highly dynamic environment. 

· Requires strong interpersonal skills with a proven ability to interact with customers while presenting complex technical issues.

· Needs to have good cross-functional understanding of technical architectures outside targeted domain to account for required integration points.

Education: Bachelor’s degree in business, information technology, computer science, or related field is preferred

Experience: Enterprise Networking, Network Security, and or Application Delivery.

Certifications:

· Must hold active certifications in one or more of the following certifications:

o   CCNP Enterprise

o   CCNP Security

o   CCIE Security

o   Palo Alto PCNSE