Senior Consultant - Network and Edge Security

November 26

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Security Program Strategy • Enterprise Risk and Compliance • Threat and Vulnerability Management • Security Architecture and Implementation • Security Education and Awareness

1001 - 5000

💰 Venture Round on 2017-01

Description

• This position will be fully remote and can be hired anywhere in the continental U.S. • Our consultants are skilled technical and consultative resources expected to be strong in both technical and soft skills. • A Consultant must be a proven self-starter with the ability to problem-solve, communicate, participate in diverse project teams from a technical perspective, and interface effectively with customers, vendor partners, and colleagues. • Establish & maintain productive and respectful relationships with the delivery team, practice management, and client management team. • You will actively contribute to improving operational efficiency on projects and internal initiatives. • Deliver timely engagements and works closely with Practice Directors to drive training and education, career development, performance development, and collaboration across the team. • In line with Optiv’s commitment to quality, you will confirm that work is of the highest quality as per Optiv’s quality standards, by reviewing the work provided by other members. • Comfortably delivers solo-based work or act as "point" for complex projects. • Acts as technical escalation point to assist other consultants. • Leads solution architecture, capacity planning and HW specification recommendation efforts. • Leads all Palo Alto Network and Edge Security deployment activities and third-party system integration. • Participate in User Acceptance Testing and bug-related engineering efforts. • Design and implement on specific technology build processes, code migration, and source control use. • Provide knowledge transfer and post production support activities as necessary. • Effective team communicator. • Maintain professional and technical knowledge by attending educational workshops; reviewing professional publications; establishing personal networks; participating in professional associations such as ISACA, CSA, etc. • Obtain and maintain top tier vendor certification. • Complete administrative project tasks like time and expense entry, status reporting, and project completion reporting. • Acts as contributor in Optiv communities for solutions of focus.

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree and approximately 5-7 years of related work experience. • Approximately 4-7 years of technical architecture experience. • 4-7 years of hands-on experience with Palo Alto. • Minimum 4 years of professional Information Security experience in a consulting, vendor or enterprise-level role. • Desirable experience within one or more of the following Security Architecture and/or Enterprise Architectural Frameworks (e.g. SABSA, TOGAF, O-ESA). • Hands-on experience implementing Palo Alto NGFW, VM-Series, Prisma Access • Preferred experience in Public and Private Cloud, VM-Series, and/or Prisma Access/SASE • Hands-on experience with public cloud providers specifically AWS, Azure and optionally GCP • Experience with advanced private cloud and micro segmentation • Experience with container network and runtime security (CN-Series) is a plus, though not required • Minimum Palo Alto Certification Level PCNSE or PCSFE • PCNSC is highly desired • InfoSec/Cyber implementation experience • Fully qualified/certified on 1 or more technologies • Experience in a customer facing/consulting capacity • Demonstrated ability to lead junior consulting professionals • Remote with ability to travel to meet client needs • Ability to work US hours (any time zone- Pacific/Mountain/Central/Eastern time zone)

Benefits

• Work/life balance • Professional training resources • Volunteer Opportunities. • "Optiv Chips In" encourages employees to volunteer and engage with their teams and communities.