Sr. Consultant - Network and Edge Security - Palo Alto Networks | Remote, USA

tment 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 will make an impact:

• Comfortably delivers solo-based work or act as "point" for complex projects

• Acts as technical escalation point to assist other consultants

• Leads solution architecture, capacity planning and HW specification recommendation efforts

• Leads all Palo Alto Network and Edge Security deployment activities and third-party system integration

• Participate in User Acceptance Testing and bug-related engineering efforts.

• Design and implement on specific technology build processes, code migration, and source control use

• Provide knowledge transfer and post production support activities as necessary

• Effective team communicator

• Maintain 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 top tier vendor certification

• 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:

• 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

• Experience with advanced private cloud and micro segmentation

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

• 4-7 years of hands-on experience with Palo Alto

• Minimum 4 years of professional Information Security experience in a consulting, vendor or enterprise-level role

• Minimum Palo Alto Certification Level PCNSE or PCSFE

• PCNSC is highly desired

• InfoSec/Cyber implementation experience

• Fully qualified/certified on 1 or more technologies

• Experience in a customer facing/consulting capacity

• Demonstrated ability to lead junior consulting professionals

• Remote with ability to travel to meet client needs

• 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

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