Senior Security Consultant - Fully Remote

Position:

We're at Lucid currently have an opportunity for an experienced security professional to join our client's security team and enable their customers to secure their digital transformation journey and commence the adoption of a zero-trust security model.

The candidate should have a solid foundation on security products and services covering areas such as cloud security, user identity, endpoint security, Firewalls, VPNs and NAC. In addition to these foundation services, successful candidates will also have extensive experience in the design and deployment of secure web gateway, secure Internet gateways and zero-trust network access solutions from one or more of these leading vendors, Zscaler, Palo Alto, Bluecoat/Symantec, NetSkope, and Checkpoint

Any experience with security Cloud platforms and workloads would be advantageous, either through the security services of the Cloud Service Providers or other vendors' solutions to secure multi-cloud environments.

The successful candidate should have a good understanding of common security and compliance frameworks such as CIS, NIST, and PCI and demonstrate the ability to map the security portfolio to this framework and the customer outcomes they provide.

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for achieving success by implementing and delivering high quality, supportable, technical project solutions that delight our customers.
• Maintain close, sensitive and long-term working relationships with key customers, acting as a trusted advisor
• Technical design, build, testing and transitioning into live service of networking, security and managed service solutions. This includes controlling the utilization and configuration of solution hardware, licenses, professional services budgets and services.
• Provide 'technical authority' for pre-sale proposals by providing content in high level designs to presales colleagues. Peer review designs from other peers and colleagues with critical/positive appraisal
• Technical business consultancy services and engagement, acting in a vendor agnostic manner, assessing and analysing client business needs, and helping defining solutions to problems and presenting a clear roadmap for the transformation journey.
• Producing high quality documentation with a high level of accuracy
• Build strong relationships with vendor commercial and technical contacts.

Skills and experience

• Five or more years working in IT security and building foundational skills around at least two security technology areas, including network security (Firewalls, VPNs, NAC), identity (AAA, IDAM, PAM), endpoint security.
• Two or more years working with Secure Web/Internet Gateway solutions - Experience in design, deployment and supporting Secure Web and Internet Gateways with Zscaler being the preferred vendor, but knowledge of competitive solutions would be considered.
• Two or more years working with Zero Trust Network Access solutions - Experience in the design, deployment and support of Zero Trust Network Access solutions with the Zscaler Private Access product being preferred, although transferable knowledge from competitive solutions would be considered
• Experience gained across multiple customer environments is preferred and would be considered equivalent to multiple years of experience
• Flexibility on hours of work (within reason) to service global client needs

Advantageous

• One of more years' experience with Endpoint Detection and Response solutions - Experience in the design, deployment and support of endpoint detection and response solutions in particular the Crowdstrike Falcon solution.
• Micro-segmentation - Experience of implementing a micro-segmentation solution, with agent-based solutions being preferred over network infrastructure approaches.

The desirable certifications include

• ISC2 CISSP/ISC2 CCSP
• Zscaler Certified Cloud Administrator ZIA (ZCCP-PA)
• Zscaler Certified Cloud Administrator ZDX (ZCCA-ZDX)
• Zscaler Certified Cloud Administrator ZPA (ZCCA-PA)
• Fortinet NSE 4+
• Crowdstrike Certified Falcon Administrator (CCFA)
• Cisco Certified Internetwork Expert - Security (CCIE-S)
• Cisco Certified Network Professional - Security (CCNP-S)
• Palo Alto Networks Certified Network Security Engineer (PCNSE)

If you are available and interested in this opportunity, please apply for further information. Please note due to high volumes of applications we are unable to contact every application.

If you do not hear back from us within 7 days of sending your application, please assume that you have not been successful on this occasion.

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