Senior Security Consultant

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What you’ll be doing...

The Senior Security Consultant will provide delivery leadership and pre-sales support within the Cyber Defense consultancy team primarily aligned to clients in the US region.

• Provide the lead in major delivery projects acting as a security design authority and team lead, ensuring that solutions remain in scope and are aligned to agreed business requirements, appropriate delivery methodologies are followed and that effective governance is applied.
• Provide support and guidance to consultants working on other PSS projects.
• Work with internal and external stakeholders to understand business requirements and prepare appropriate technical solution designs at both high and low levels.
• Make a contribution to the on-going development of PSS security services to ensure that they reflect current industry best practice and trends and remain aligned to customer requirements and expectations.
• Maintain day to day records of project work to allow accurate billing and reporting of consultancy time.
• Maintain and grow their own knowledge to ensure this maintains fully relevant to the security services practice and its clients.

What we’re looking for...

You’ll need to have:

• Bachelor’s degree or four or more years of work experience.
• Four or more years of relevant work experience.
• Four or more years of security consulting, design, and delivery experience.
• Experience of multi-vendor, managed outsourcing environments.
• Knowledge of networking (TCP/IP, routing, switching, WAN, LAN, etc.)
• Willingness to travel up to 25%.
• A valid Driver’s License.

Even better if you have one or more of the following:

• Vendor specific engineering certifications (e.g. Palo Alto CNSE, Cisco CCNA Security).
• Experience with Network FWs such as Palo Alto, Cisco ASA/Firepower Check Point, Juniper, or Fortinet.
• Experience with vulnerability scanners such as Skybox, Tenable IO Nessus, Nikto, Qualys, or Rapid7.
• Experience with APT such as FireEye, Palo Alto WildFire, or Bluecoat Solara.
• Experience with Identity and Access Management systems such as Cisco ISE, CyberArk, or Sailpoint.
• Troubleshooting skills, technical and non-technical.
• Migrated complex legacy infrastructures to new managed security services platforms.
• Strong presentation and written/verbal communication skills at multiple levels of an organization.

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