Principal Network Security Cyber Defense Consultant

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What you'll be doing:

As a Principal Network Security Consultant, you will serve as a pivotal leader within Verizon's Professional Services Cyber Defense Delivery (PS CD) or Consulting Services teams. This senior, client-facing role is responsible for providing strategic guidance to customers, technical governance, and delivery leadership for complex network security projects. You will act as a trusted advisor to customers, bridging the gap between business objectives and advanced cybersecurity solutions, driving both pre-sales support initiatives and hands-on project delivery excellence across global accounts.

• Act as a network security SME and technical lead in projects acting, ensuring that solutions remain in scope and are aligned to agreed business requirements, appropriate delivery methodologies are followed and that effective governance is applied;

• Delivery of smaller stand-alone projects as required;

• Provide support and guidance to consultants working on other Network Security projects;

• Provide peer reviews of HLD, LLD and other critical project documentation as required;

• Work with internal and external stakeholders to understand business requirements and prepare appropriate technical solution designs at both high and low levels.;

• Support and actively participate in the business development of the PS CD practice by identifying additional business opportunities within the current customer base;

• Act as Senior Thought Leader and establish strong customer relationships in key accounts to help progress the Security Services portfolio;

• Support the wider practice in any pre-sales activities and effort scoping work, including preparation of supporting materials, LOE (Level of Effort), SOW (Statement of Work), and development of quotes for customer engagements;

• Identify, progress, and promote new opportunities in projects and opportunities for up-sell services;

• Support peers working with customers, coach, mentor, and knowledge share where needed to ensure a high quality of service delivery to customers;

• Participate in the development and improvement of internal business processes: standard re-usable templates, methodologies, and automation that can be used to increase the efficiency and consistency of delivery within the practice, eliminating manual workflows where possible.

• Maintain day to day records of project work to allow accurate billing and reporting of consultancy time;

• Maintain effective network of business contacts within Verizon and their partner community;

• Maintain and grow their own knowledge to ensure this maintains fully relevant to the network security services practice and its clients;

• Have strong presentation and written/verbal communications skills at multiple levels of an organization;

• Network security consulting, design and delivery experience.

What we're looking for

You'll need to have:

• Bachelor's degree or four or more years of work experience.

• Six or more years of relevant experience required, demonstrated through one or a combination of work and/or military experience, or specialized training.

• Technical expertise in most of the technologies below:

• Firewalls: Checkpoint, Juniper, Palo Alto, Cisco ASA/FTD, Fortinet;

• Proxy Services: Bluecoat (forward/reverse proxy),

• Load Balancers: F5 (LTM/GTM);

• IDP/IPS: FirePower/Sourcefire IPS/IDS, McAfee

• Identity & Access Management: Cisco ISE, Aruba Clearpass policy manager; CyberArk

• Routing & Switching: (CCNP/CCNA level), and good knowledge of SD-WAN deployments;

• Good understanding of key technologies such as: VRF, dynamic routing (EIGRP/BGP/OSPF), MPLS, DMVPN, GRE, IPSec VPN

• Remote Access VPN: GlobalProtect, Pulse Secure, Cisco AnyConnect; SASE; Palo Alto Prisma Access, Zscaler

• Knowledge of Cloud deployments (Azure/AWS/GCP)

• Experience with building, maintaining, reviewing all configurations/settings/policies on chosen technologies;

• Excellent troubleshooting skills (both technical and non-technical);

• Production of detailed infrastructure designs including physical and virtual aspects of security components;

• One or more industry technical certifications.

• Willingness to travel up to 25%.

Even better if you have:

• Experience of multi-vendor, managed outsourcing environments;

• Experience working with operational environments following ITIL frameworks;

• Excellent documentation and presentation skills;

• Ability to review processes and procedures - and improve them;

• Business requirements analysis

• Migration of complex legacy infrastructures to new managed security services platforms;

• Understanding and demonstrable experience working in an Agile environment and actively participating in a Scrum team;

• Experience using Jira to help define user stories, tasks and associated estimates.

• Following Certifications: CCNA/CCNP (Enterprise/Security/Data Center); CISSP or equivalent; Palo Alto (PCNSA/PCNSE); Checkpoint (CCSA/CCSE); Fortinet (NSE); F5 Certified BIG-IP Administrator; Zscaler (ZCCA-IA, ZCCA-PA)

If Verizon and this role sound like a fit for you, we encourage you to apply even if you don't meet every "even better" qualification listed above.

Verizon is an equal opportunity employer. We evaluate qualified applicants without regard to veteran status, disability or other legally protected characteristics.

Our benefits are designed to help you move forward in your career, and in areas of your life outside of Verizon. From health and wellness benefit options including: medical, dental, vision, short and long term disability, basic life insurance, supplemental life insurance, AD&D insurance, identity theft protection, pet insurance and group home & auto insurance. We also offer a matched 401(k) savings plan, stock incentive programs, up to 8 company paid holidays per year and up to 6 personal days per year, parental leave, adoption assistance and tuition assistance, plus other incentives, we've got you covered with our award-winning total rewards package. Depending on the role, employees have the opportunity to receive compensation in the form of premium pay such as overtime, shift differential, holiday pay, allowances, etc. Newly hired employees receive up to 15 days of vacation per year, which grows with additional service. For part-timers, your coverage will vary as you may be eligible for some of these benefits depending on your individual circumstances.