Network Security Consultant

Role - Network Security Consultant

Location Frisco TX

Job Description Network Security Consultant

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.

Required Qualifications and Experience:

• Minimum 15 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 FortiAnalyzer Fortinet Firewalls and Fortinet SD-WAN is must.
• Advanced troubleshooting on the full range of Fortinet products
• Hands on experience with Azure Enterprise-scale reference architecture
• Fortinet Certified Professional certification or relevant Fortinet NSE certifications preferred.
• Strong technical knowledge of networking systems protocols firewalls load balancers and VPN technologies.
• Experience with network monitoring and troubleshooting tools.
• Proficiency in recording and interpreting TCP/IP packet captures.

Knowledge and education:

• Bachelors 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

Key responsibilities include:

• This is a hands-on technical role:
• 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