Contract: Technical Consultant - Cisco Secure Workload
Start Date: ASAP
Duration: 12 months
Location: Hybrid (On site 3 days a week in London or Surrey)
Rate: £550 - £600 per day (deemed inside IR35)
Reference: 19722
**This role requires extensive experience and expertise within agent-based segmentation solutions, including Cisco Secure Workload (CSW) (formely Cisco Tetration), Illumio or Akamai Guardicore**
The Engineering group is an integral and strategy defining function within Enterprise Network Services team, overall part of Technology Infrastructure, defining the roadmap, design, patterns, blueprints, and high-level / low-level implementation for core technologies within the network, firewall and voice domains.
Within this role, you'll be at the forefront of defining design patterns & blueprints for the Enterprise Network Services group.
* You'll be engaging with business stakeholders, architects, engineers and other technical stakeholders, to understand design requirements (functional and non-functional), to determine the minimum viable product (MVP) that needs to be delivered.
* You'll be assessing, analysing and triaging detailed requirements, to identity patterns and points of commonality that can be addressed via common scalable patterns, rather than multiple point in time solutions with varying deviation.
* You'll be defining applicable patterns / blueprints that would address the requirements detailed, providing optionality and flexibility for stakeholders to review, analyse and provide feedback on.
* You'll be applying architecture & engineering principles to all detailed patterns & blueprints, including but not limited to, simplification, standardisation, life cycle, technical debt, high availability, scalability and security.
* You'll be formally recommending suggested blueprint to the ENS Engineering function and associated stakeholders for approval and acceptance.
* You'll be documenting the blueprint, at both High-Level Design (HLD) and Low-Level Design (LLD) level, detailing suitability, applicability, and qualification criteria for the pattern, whilst presenting the design within relevant Architecture Review Board (ARB) forums.
Skills Required:
* Subject Matter Expert Skillset - As part of joining the Engineering function, you'll be expected to bring a Subject Matter Expert (SME) skillset, according to the technologies and domains Enterprise Network Services maintain. In particular, this role requires extensive experience and expertise within agent-based segmentation solutions, including Cisco Secure Workload (CSW) (formely Cisco Tetration), Illumio or Akamai Guardicore, leading architecture or design efforts relating to the tool. This expertise will be leveraged to drive a risk-reduction and zero-trust based architecture for application workloads within hybrid cloud / data center environments across critical and important business workloads. Further, experience and expertise relating to any of the other following products would be applicable: ZScaler (ZIA), ZScaler (ZPA), Secure Web Gateways (i.e. Ivanti Pulse, Citrix NetScaler, Cisco AnyConnect, etc), SD-WAN Technologies (SilverPeak SD-WAN, Viptela, etc), LAN technologies (Cisco Meraki) as well as DDI (DNS, DHCP and IPAM) expertise within products such as Nokia VitalQIP, InfoBlox and Bluecat. Underlying network route and switch knowledge is expected, underpinning these SME domains.
* Programming / Scripting / Network Automation - Further to an SME skillset, it's expected that you will bring some level of programming, scripting or automation experience. Examples of toolset experience expected here includes Python, CI/CD Pipelines, Terraform, Ansible, PowerShell, etc.
* Problem Solving - As part of this role, you'll be engaging within highly complex technical requirements and problems, requiring application of innovative solutions, to work through challenges within the workplace. As a member of the Engineering function, you'll be expected to use your problem solving skills, to provide solutions articulated by the business.
* Analytical Skills - As a member of the Engineering function, you'll be expected to be able to break down complex problems and define technical solutions, based upon your analysis and triage of the problem and expressed requirements. You'll need to be able to understand the problem domain you're assigned from a variety of technical implementations, and make recommendations for these domains based on vendor and industry best practice.
* Creativity - Brainstorming and creative thinking for developing initatives, solving problems and recommending technical solutions is highly important for working effectively within this role. Being able to think outside the box, being able to drill down to the root core requirement, and being able to recommend solutions which meet the most complex of requirements across various stakeholders is essential, in order to deliver scalable and robust solutions.
* Stakeholder Management - Being able to engage with various stakeholders across the business, including but not limited to, Enterprise Network Services colleagues, infrastructure architects, enterprise architects, security engineers and architects, as well as represnatives from the various FIL business units is necessary, in order to capture strategy, requirements and general intent / outcome, and allow this to be embedded into Enterprise Network Services assured and engineered solutions. Being able to manage the requirements of stakeholders, the expectations of stakeholders, and the delivery of stakeholder expressed outcome is necessary to ensure stakeholders are continuously informed and kept up to date, as the Engineering function progresses the scheme of work, relating to the stakeholders original requirement.
Networking People (UK) is acting as an Employment Business in relation to this vacancy.
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