Security Consultant Network Security

Introduction
A career in IBM Consulting is rooted by long-term relationships and close collaboration with clients across the globe.
You’ll work with visionaries across multiple industries to improve the hybrid cloud and AI journey for the most innovative and valuable companies in the world. Your ability to accelerate impact and make meaningful change for your clients is enabled by our strategic partner ecosystem and our robust technology platforms across the IBM portfolio; including Software and Red Hat.
Curiosity and a constant quest for knowledge serve as the foundation to success in IBM Consulting. In your role you’ll be encouraged to challenge the norm investigate ideas outside of your role and come up with creative solutions resulting in ground breaking impact for a wide network of clients. Our culture of evolution and empathy centers on long-term career growth and development opportunities in an environment that embraces your unique skills and experience.

Your Role and Responsibilities
As a Network Security Engineer you are expected to work on Networking products or solutions based on any vendor hardware /vendor operating system software (i.e Vendor agnostic) with little or minimum support including skills like Routers/Switches/ Load balancer.
Your role would also involve deploying managing and implementing networking solutions to address client business requirements. You will need to visit the domestic client’s offices / data centres on a daily basis or on an as-needed basis as part of this role.

Responsibilities:

• Assist in troubleshooting and problem solving a wide variety of client IT security related issues (Cisco FTD/Palo Alto/Checkpoint/Fortinet/Azure firewalls IDS/IPS VPN proxy Bluecoat/Forcepoint/Zscalar Web filtering).
• Mentor Tier 1 staff on event handling & response
• Manage day to day firewall operations implementing firewall rule requests configuration changes. Continually improve upon skills and ability to learn new technologies
• Incorporate and follow all change management processes and procedures as outlined by the customer. Participate in security and vulnerability risk assessments of the enterprise firewall environment.
• Contribute to L2/L3 SOPs/Runbook/KEDB in keeping process & documentation up to date.
• Contribute to request/incident/change management improvement process
  Ready to learn new technologies through internal trainings
• Prove communication skills
• Incorporate and follow all change management processes and procedures as outlined by the customer.
• Participate in security and vulnerability risk assessments of the enterprise firewall environment.
• Ready to work on 24/7 shifts to support client requirement.

Required Technical and Professional Expertise

• Min 7-8 years of industry experience as a Network Security engineering on Design Implementation and troubleshooting Firewall load balancers WAF
• Hands-on Experience handling at least 3 Firewall products (PaloAlto FortiGate Checkpoint Cisco Juniper Sonicwall etc.) and
• Hands on experience with Proxy solutions(Forcepoint Zscaler etc) IDS/IPS WAF
• Assist in troubleshooting and problem solving a wide variety of client IT security related issues (Cisco FTD/Palo Alto/ firewalls IDS/IPS VPN proxy Bluecoat/Forcepoint/Zscalar Web filtering).
• Experience on firewall rules and data flow traffic in firewalls.
• Experience in performing /documenting RCA for major security incidents related to network security products Must have experience interacting with OEMs to fix product/technology related issue
• Experience on clustering and high availability.
• Experience in configuration and implementation of VPN across various vendor perimeter devices.
• Experience in routing technologies.
• Skilled in analysing and monitoring network security solutions.
• Should possess core understanding of web filtering gateways like BlueCoat Zscaler or PaloAlto.

Preferred Technical and Professional Expertise

• You love collaborative environments that use agile methodologies to encourage creative design thinking and find innovative ways to develop with cutting edge technologies
• Ambitious individual who can work under their own direction towards agreed targets/goals and with creative approach to work
• Intuitive individual with an ability to manage change and proven time management
• Proven interpersonal skills while contributing to team effort by accomplishing related results as needed
• Up-to-date technical knowledge by attending educational workshops reviewing publications