Description The Network Security Consultant will provide delivery leadership within the Professional Services consultancy team primarily aligned to clients in the USA region. This client-facing role includes the following responsibilities. 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 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; * Have a minimum of 5 years of network security consulting, design and delivery experience. As a Network Security Consultant you will bring – Technical expertise with very strong skills in most of the technologies below: * Firewalls: Checkpoint, Juniper, Palo Alto, Cisco ASA/FTD, Fortinet; * Proxy Services: Bluecoat (forward/reverse proxy), Zscaler; * Load Balancers: F5 (LTM/GTM); * IDP/IPS: FirePower/Sourcefire IPS/IDS, McAfee * Identity & Access Management: Cisco ISE, Aruba Clearpass policy manager; * 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; * Knowledge of Cloud deployments (Azure/AWS/GCP); * 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; * Excellent documentation and presentation 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; * 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. It is likely that you will have gained some of the following professional qualifications: * CCNA/CCNP (Enterprise/Security/Data Centre); CISSP or equivalent; * Palo Alto (PCNSA/PCNSE); * Checkpoint (CCSA/CCSE); * Fortinet (NSE)