Network Security Engineer – Strata EEC

Ampcus Inc. is a certified global provider of a broad range of Technology and Business consulting services. We are in search of a highly motivated candidate to join our talented Team.

Job Title:Network Security Engineer Strata EEC

Location(s):Chicago IL

Must Have:

Panorama/NGFW Expertise
Strong Networking Skills
Checkpoint Migration Experience
Senior-Level Experience in Engineering
Excellent Communications Interpersonal and Relationship-Building Skills
Consultative Approach (providing professional advice or recommendations)

Nice to Have:

XSOAR Experience
Zero Trust Experience (AppID UserID DeviceID ContentID)
Azure / AWS Experience
VM Series Knowledge

Your Career:

You will provide guidance and technical support to clients deploying our security integrations.
Acting as the technical partner youll provide strategic guidance around complex systems to secure a digital environment.
Interacting directly with clients youll work closely with their teams to suggest integrations that align with their success.
Youre thorough understanding of our product integrations will contribute to the development of new principles and concepts providing detailed analysis of whats working whats not and what could be improved.
You enjoy implementation work proactively resolving potential issues and adhering to best practices that enable our clients to secure their digital environments. Youre creative innovative and enjoy challenges especially in learning how integrations can work better with new products and technologies.

Your Impact:

Communicate effectively with customers sales teams peers engineering and support teams as necessary.
Understand the customer environment requirements and security roadmap to implement the appropriate security solution.
Configure implement and maintain the Security Operating Platform.
Optimize and migrate policies and objects from the existing environment to our Next-Gen Firewall.
Test and validate the migration environment.
Coordinate and execute cutover to production.
Provide guidance on code upgrades.
Facilitate the development of new application and threat signatures.
Interact with our Technical Assistance Center (TAC) to understand and resolve support cases.
Travel may be required based on customer requests.
Work with the customers security and network teams to build confidence across business units impacted by changes to PAN products.

Your Experience:

Extensive experience with Panorama and log collectors.
Strong knowledge of NGFW and GlobalProtect.
BS in Computer Science MIS Business or equivalent education/training/experience.
Minimum of 5 years of experience with network/security solutions and technologies (BGP SD-WAN concepts VXLAN and general routing and switching).
Minimum of 3 years of experience leading security solutions in large environments.
Detailed technical experience in the installation configuration and operation of high-end firewall appliances ideally PAN products.
Expertise in internetworking LAN and WAN technologies.
Good understanding of Internet protocols and applications.
Industry certifications such as CISSP CCNA CNSE JNCIE-SEC.
Ability to effectively handle multiple projects and work calmly under pressure.
Strong writing and verbal communication skills with demonstrable ability to communicate with senior leaders and technical peers.