Network Security Consultant

Job Description:

Role: Network Security Consultant

Location: Salisbury, NC (Onsite)

Duration: 12 Months

Experience required: 8 years

Role Summary:

The ideal candidate will have deep experience of networking technologies, such as Routing and switching, Firewalls, proxy, GNAC, IDS/IPS, routing, switching, managing heterogeneous environment & generate metrics related to Security, Network performance, capacity, availability, failure rates, and will also have a strong background in network performance management, service delivery and strategic operations planning with a strong technical orientation & creative in problem solving.

Responsibilities:

• Independently own the Security Infrastructure support solving complex issues and suggest design modifications as appropriate.
• Ensure SLAs are met - Responsible for performance analysis, proactive troubleshooting, and capacity planning for the Security platforms.
• Perform monitoring and maintenance of overall environment working with experienced team members.
• Perform change controls. Update process documentation and team portals
• Participate in troubleshooting, capacity planning and analysis, performance analysis & Root Cause Analysis.
• Communicate with peers and managers regarding system issues & participate in 24x7 on-call.
• Automate operational tasks to make processes simpler and more robust.
• Ability to handle multiple complex tasks in a dynamic environment, with tight deadlines concurrently.
• Refresh heat-maps and operations plans for campus network Security connectivity
• Monitor and analyze statistical data to develop improvement plans for network Security and application performance
• Provide an effective network Security capacity plan
• Develop and monitor global weekly and monthly trending reports by business sectors to justify future growth

Required Qualifications:

• Minimum 5 years of working in a Network / Telecommunications role, with expert level experience with Routing and Switching, Firewall Management, Proxy Management, IDS/IPS Management, NAC Management, SD-WAN, VPN, Firewalls, etc technologies
• Experience with technologies Forti Manager, Forti Analyzer, Fortinet Firewalls and Fortinet SD-WAN is must.
• Hands on experience with Azure Enterprise-scale reference architecture
• Infrastructure as Code (IaC) experience - scripting and automation via AZ CLI/PowerShell, Bash, Bicep, JSON templates etc.
• Policy as Code (Client) experience
• Well versed in Azure cloud Security native security tools and network technologies
• Experience in creating architecture patterns for public cloud and cloud-native solutions
• Experience with assessments of cloud security.
• Hands on experience with IaC tools like, ARM, terraform, ansible, PowerShell, python, azcli, github.
• Working experience in any public (Azure, GCP, Oracle, Aws or others) or hybrid cloud
• Experience on Cloud native or third-party firewalls on cloud

Knowledge and education:

• Bachelor's degree in computer science, Information Technology, Engineering, or related field
• 5 years of experience designing and planning Azure environments in enterprise environments including application dependencies, client presentation mechanisms, network con

Additional Responsibilities Include:

• Oversees and directs all aspects of the 24/7/365 mission critical network/telecommunication infrastructure operations, including planning, supporting, and maintaining functions
• Serves as the senior-level escalation point for cloud security operations to resolve critical incidents
• Maintains policy and procedures manual, conducts monthly service review meetings with key stakeholders

Provides leadership, management, direction, and technical oversight for the network Security operations department