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IBM Security Consultant Network 
India, Maharashtra, Mumbai 
391371661

04.12.2024

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