Consultant - Network and Edge Security - Palo Alto

This position will be fully remote and can be hired anywhere in the continental U.S.

Our consultants are skilled technical and consultative resources expected to be strong in both technical and soft skills. A Consultant must be a proven self-starter with the ability to problem-solve, communicate, participate in diverse project teams from a technical perspective, and interface effectively with customers, vendor partners, and colleagues. Establish & maintain productive and respectful relationships with the delivery team, practice management, and client management team.

You will actively contribute to improving operational efficiency on projects and internal initiatives. Deliver timely engagements and works closely with Technical and Business Leadership to drive training and education, career development, performance development, and collaboration across the team.

In line with Optiv’s commitment to quality, you will confirm that work is of the highest quality as per Optiv’s quality standards, by reviewing the work provided by other members.

How you'll make an impact:

• Delivers as a member of a team on routine configuration and consulting work

• Effectively leverages senior teammates for technical escalation

• Supports senior teammates solution architecture, capacity planning and HW specification recommendation efforts

• Can deliver or support Palo Alto Network and Edge Security deployment activities and third-party system integration

• Participates in User Acceptance Testing and bug-related engineering efforts

• Provides post production support activities, and some knowledge transfer as necessary

• Effective team communicator

• Maintains professional and technical knowledge by attending educational workshops; reviewing professional publications; establishing personal networks; participating in professional associations such as ISACA, CSA, etc.

• Obtain and maintain specified vendor certifications

• Complete administrative project tasks like time and expense entry, status reporting, and project completion reporting

• Acts as contributor in Optiv communities for solutions of focus

What we're looking for:

• Bachelor's degree preferred with approximately 2-5 years of related work experience

• Approximately 2-5 years of technical architecture experience

• Hands-on experience implementing Palo Alto NGFW, VM-Series, Prisma Access

• Preferred experience in Public and Private Cloud, VM-Series, and/or Prisma Access/SASE

• Hands-on experience with public cloud providers specifically AWS, Azure and optionally GCP

• Optionally, experience with advanced private cloud and micro segmentation

• Optionally, experience with container network and runtime security (CN-Series) is a plus, though not required

• 2-4 years of hands-on experience with Palo Alto

• Minimum 2 years of professional Information Security experience in a consulting, vendor or enterprise-level role

• Minimum Palo Alto Certification Level PCNSE, or the ability to obtain the certification within 90 days

• InfoSec/Cyber implementation experience

• Fully qualified/certified on 1 or more technologies

• Experience in a customer facing/consulting capacity

• Demonstrated ability and drive to learn new technology and adapt to change

• Ability to work US hours (any time zone- Pacific/Mountain/Central/Eastern time zone)

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What you can expect from Optiv

• A company committed to championing Diversity, Equality, and Inclusion through our Employee Resource Groups.
• Work/life balance
• Professional training resources
• Creative problem-solving and the ability to tackle unique, complex projects
• Volunteer Opportunities. “Optiv Chips In” encourages employees to volunteer and engage with their teams and communities.
• The ability and technology necessary to productively work remotely/from home (where applicable)

EEO Statement

Optiv is an equal opportunity employer (EEO). All qualified applicants for employment will be considered without regard to race, color, religion, sex, gender identity, sexual orientation, national origin, status as an individual with a disability, veteran status, or any other basis protected by federal, state, or local law.

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