Security Consulting Engineer
Full time
at Boardroom Appointments
in
South Africa
Posted on December 20, 2024
Job details
About the job Security Consulting Engineer
Key purpose: With a multifaceted workload and travel schedule, working as part of a dynamic and highly skilled team, the position offers exciting work for knowledgeable and experienced consulting engineers with strong network security expertise and developed customer-facing consulting skills. Duties and responsibilities:- Security CEs are encouraged to be able to take the lead role in projects, possibly managing less experienced engineers to ensure a successful outcome to the support project.
- Responsibility for delivery of subscription activities (direct support at the customer premises)
- Lead implementation of recommendations based on standard methodology, working on large infrastructures, and develop procedures to minimize service impact.
- Work as part of a team of highly skilled engineers working daily at the end customer premises to support its network infrastructure and representing our company.
- Minimum of 10 years of security experience is mandatory of which at least 8 must be on network security as deep and primary technical focus.
- The candidate will possess experienced level internetworking troubleshooting in a large-scale network environment using security products from Cisco and ideally, other vendors.
- Very deep technical account liaison and customer management / consulting skills are mandatory.
- The candidate must have a deep technical knowledge on supporting, solving and managing the following Cisco security solutions:
- Cisco ISE (migration from ACS to ISE, Wireless and Wired environments, profiling, posturing and integrations with other security solutions via pxgrid)
- Cisco NGFW (FTD and ASA software) for network Firewall and VPN.
- Other technologies such Stealthwatch, ESA, ASA and scripting are a plus.
- Expert level knowledge in network security including architecture and configuration of Cisco routers, firewalls and a wide range of security products is required.
- NCEs should be CCIE Security qualified.
- though security is the main focus, the engineer should have a strong knowledge and experience on Routing switching, MPLS and the new software define solutions (SDWAN and SDA)
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