Job Description:
• Translate high-level business strategic objectives and goals into Enterprise IT requirements and conceptual designs.
• Develop and support comprehensive solutions that meet requirements and align with HPE’s global network security and microsegmentation strategy.
• Develop and maintain a multi-year strategic network and security architecture roadmap, incorporating Zero Trust and segmentation-driven security models.
• Lead end-to-end network and security architecture across global platforms ensuring secure, high-performing, fault-tolerant, and resilient environments.
Microsegmentation & Zero Trust Responsibilities:
• Architect and implement microsegmentation strategies across data center, campus, and cloud environments to limit lateral movement and enforce least-privilege access.
• Design and operationalize Zero Trust Architecture (ZTA) principles, integrating identity, application, and network-based policy enforcement.
• Collaborate with application owners to discover, validate, and map application dependencies to enable policy-driven segmentation.
• Define and enforce granular security policies using label/tag-based segmentation approaches across hybrid environments.
• Integrate microsegmentation with firewalls, SIEM, IAM, EDR/XDR, and cloud-native controls for unified policy enforcement.
• Lead adoption of microsegmentation platforms (e.g, Guardicore/Akamai Segmentation).
• Develop segmentation governance models, policy lifecycle management, and compliance alignment (CIS/NIST/Zero Trust frameworks).
Core Network Security Responsibilities:
• Participate in network security design reviews and ensure all implementations meet enterprise security standards.
• Analyze business requirements to design and implement security across data centers, campus networks, and hybrid environments.
• Provide ongoing risk metrics, control effectiveness tracking, and security posture reporting.
• Conduct and support internal and external security audits and compliance assessments.
• Maintain awareness of emerging threats and update policies accordingly.
• Develop and manage policies, processes, and procedures ensuring reliability, availability, and security of network systems.
• Manage and optimize Security Information and Event Management (SIEM) systems.
• Collaborate with Cyber Security, infrastructure, and application teams toward compliance and operational excellence.
Technical Qualifications:
• 10+ years of experience in enterprise network security architecture, engineering, and operations.
Microsegmentation & Advanced Security:
• Strong hands-on experience in designing and implementing microsegmentation solutions in complex enterprise environments.
• Proven capability to build application-aware segmentation policies based on traffic flow analysis.
• Experience with policy simulation, enforcement, monitoring, and optimization in segmentation platforms.
• Understanding of east-west traffic inspection, workload protection, and software-defined segmentation.
• Familiarity with Zero Trust Network Access (ZTNA) and identity-driven access models.
Network Security & Infrastructure:
• Strong experience managing LAN/WAN security technologies, including firewalls, IDS/IPS, SIEM, VPN, and NAC.
• Expertise in firewall architecture and design with hands-on experience in:
o Fortinet (Fortigate), Palo Alto, Juniper
o Policy design, NAT, routing, application control, and threat prevention profiles
• Experience securing public and private cloud (AWS, Azure, Google Cloud Platform) environments.
• Design and implementation of Web Application and API Protection (WAAP) solutions.
• Strong experience in proxy (forward/reverse), load balancing, and application security integration.
• Experience with SDN and SD-WAN architectures, including segmentation use cases.
Networking & Protocol Expertise:
• Strong knowledge of:
o Routing protocols: BGP, OSPF, RIP, MPLS
o Network services: DNS, DHCP, NTP
o IPv4/IPv6 architecture and traffic management
• Experience in QoS, NetFlow, ACLs, NAT, multicast, and wireless technologies (802.11 variants).
• Experience with F5 GTM/LTM, VPN technologies, and Internet proxy solutions.
Data Center & Infrastructure:
• Experience managing enterprise data center environments with technologies including:
o Aruba, Arista, Juniper switching
o Firewalls, WAN optimization, IDS/IPS, DLP
• Strong understanding of structured cabling and network facilities.
Operations & Lifecycle Management:
• Plan, implement, and document infrastructure changes, including upgrades and migrations.
• Work within ITIL frameworks for incident, change, and problem management.
Education & Certifications:
• Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science, Network Engineering, or related field (or equivalent experience).
• 10+ years of experience in global network security environments.
• Preferred certifications:
o CCNP / CCIE
o JNCIE
o Security certifications (CISSP, CISM, or equivalent) are a plus
