Senior Network Security Consultant

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

The role includes the following responsibilities.

Delivery

• 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;
• Delivery of smaller stand-alone projects as required;
• Provide support and guidance to consultants working on other PSS projects;
• Provide peer reviews of HLD, LLD and other project documentation as required;
• Work with internal and external stake holders to understand business requirements and prepare appropriate technical solution designs at both high and low levels.

Pre-sales

• Work with the sales teams to help define end-client business requirements and associated security services solutions;
• Support the definition, scope and estimation of PSS security services;
• Attend client meetings where applicable.
• Support the preparation of RFP responses and SOWs in areas that relate directly to PSS security services;
• Support and actively participate in the business development of the practice by identifying additional business opportunities within the current client base;

Practice development

• 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;
• Act as a mentor to less experienced members of the PSS team;
• Support the practice lead in local management activities;

Personal/General

• Maintain day to day records of project work to allow accurate billing and reporting of consultancy time;
• Maintain effective network of business contacts within and their partner community;
• Maintain and grow their own knowledge to ensure this maintains fully relevant to the security services practice and its clients;
• Have strong presentation and written/verbal communications skills at multiple levels of an organization;
• Have a minimum of 6-9 years of security consulting, design and delivery experience.

As a Security Consultant you will bring:

• Technical expertise with very strong skills in at least 3 or 4 of the technologies below (please note preferred technologies):
  • Network FWs particularly NGFW including Palo Alto and Fortinet.
  • Infrastructure firewalls: Cisco ASA, Check Point & Juniper.
  • Security Devices: Bluecoat Proxy (preferred), F5 ASM, Zscaler, Cisco IronPort;
  • IDP/IPS: FirePower/Sourcefire IPS/IDS (preferred), McAfee;
  • Vulnerability Scanners: Skybox, Nessus, Nikto, Qualys;
  • APT: FireEye, Palo Alto WildFire; Bluecoat Solara
  • Identity & Access Management: Cisco ISE;
• Experience with building, maintaining, reviewing all configurations/settings/policies on chosen technologies;
• Experience of multi-vendor, managed outsourcing environments;
• Experience working with operational environments following ITIL frameworks;

• Good general knowledge and expertise of networking (TCP/IP, routing, switching, WAN, LAN, …);
• Excellent documentation skills;
• Excellent troubleshooting skills (technical and non-technical);
• Ability to review processes and procedures – and improve them;
• Experience participating in network & system security projects to provide:
  • Business requirements analysis and support for Solutions Architects;
  • Production of detailed infrastructure designs including physical and virtual aspects of security components.
• Migration of complex legacy infrastructures to new managed security services platforms;

It is likely that you will have gained some of the following professional qualifications:

• CISSP or equivalent;
• CISM;
• GIAC;
• Vendor specific engineering certifications (e.g. Palo Alto CNSE, Cisco CCNA Security)