Job Title: Network Security Consultant – Firewall, Palo Alto
Location: Salisbury, NC (Onsite)
Employment Type: W2/C2C
Job Description – Network Security Consultant
The ideal candidate will have deep experience of networking technologies, such as Routing and switching, Firewalls, proxy, GNAC, IDS/IPS, routing, switching, managing heterogeneous environment & generate metrics related to Security, Network performance, capacity, availability, failure rates, and will also have a strong background in network performance management, service delivery and strategic operations planning with a strong technical orientation & creative in problem solving.
Required Qualifications and Experience:
- Minimum 5+ years of working in a Network / Telecommunications role, with expert level experience with Routing and Switching, Firewall Management, Proxy Management, IDS/IPS Management, NAC Management, SD-WAN, VPN, Firewalls, etc technologies
- Experience with technologies Forti Manager, Forti Analyzer, Fortinet Firewalls and Fortinet SD-WAN is must.
- Hands on experience with Azure Enterprise-scale reference architecture
- Infrastructure as Code (IaC) experience - scripting and automation via AZ CLI/PowerShell, Bash, Bicep, JSON templates etc.
- Policy as Code (PaS) experience
- Well versed in Azure cloud Security native security tools and network technologies
- Experience in creating architecture patterns for public cloud and cloud-native solutions
- Experience with assessments of cloud security.
- Hands on experience with IaC tools like, ARM, terraform, ansible, PowerShell, python, azcli, github.
- Working experience in any public (Azure, Google Cloud Platform, Oracle, Aws or others) or hybrid cloud
- Experience on Cloud native or third-party firewalls on cloud
Knowledge and education:
- Bachelor's degree in computer science, Information Technology, Engineering, or related field
- 5+ years of experience designing and planning Azure environments in enterprise environments including application dependencies, client presentation mechanisms, network con
Key responsibilities include:
- This is a hands-on technical role:
- Independently own the Security Infrastructure support solving complex issues and suggest design modifications as appropriate.
- Ensure SLAs are met - Responsible for performance analysis, proactive troubleshooting, and capacity planning for the Security platforms.
- Perform monitoring and maintenance of overall environment working with experienced team members.
- Perform change controls. Update process documentation and team portals
- Participate in troubleshooting, capacity planning and analysis, performance analysis & Root Cause Analysis.
- Communicate with peers and managers regarding system issues & participate in 24x7 on-call.
- Automate operational tasks to make processes simpler and more robust.
- Ability to handle multiple complex tasks in a dynamic environment, with tight deadlines concurrently.
- Refresh heat-maps and operations plans for campus network Security connectivity
- Monitor and analyze statistical data to develop improvement plans for network Security and application performance
- Provide an effective network Security capacity plan
- Develop and monitor global weekly and monthly trending reports by business sectors to justify future growth
Additional Responsibilities Include:
- Oversees and directs all aspects of the 24/7/365 mission critical network/telecommunication infrastructure operations, including planning, supporting, and maintaining functions
- Serves as the senior-level escalation point for cloud security operations to resolve critical incidents
- Maintains policy and procedures manual, conducts monthly service review meetings with key stakeholders
- Provides leadership, management, direction, and technical oversight for the network Security operations department
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