Network Security Consultant

Overview

On Site
$55 - $60
Contract - Independent
Contract - W2
Contract - 12 Month(s)
Able to Provide Sponsorship

Skills

Routing and switching
Firewalls
proxy
GNAC
IDS/IPS
routing
switching

Job Details

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 15 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, FortiAnalyzer, Fortinet Firewalls and Fortinet SD-WAN is must.
  • Advanced troubleshooting on the full range of Fortinet products
  • Hands on experience with Azure Enterprise-scale reference architecture
  • Fortinet Certified Professional certification or relevant Fortinet NSE certifications preferred.
  • Strong technical knowledge of networking systems, protocols, firewalls, load balancers, and VPN technologies.
  • Experience with network monitoring and troubleshooting tools.
  • Proficiency in recording and interpreting TCP/IP packet captures.

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

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