Security Consultant

Job Description:

Technical skill set

1. Must have hands-on experience in installing, managing, and troubleshooting with Cisco Client and its functionalities like RADIUS, TACACS, 802.1x, Profiling and Guest workflow.
2. Understanding of Cisco Client concepts like Client Policy sets for RADIUS and TACACS, Profile Policies, Authentication rules, authorization rules, Troubleshooting and Reporting.
3. Hands-on experience with Cisco firewalls, Palo Alto firewalls, and Panorama.
4. Understanding of Palo Alto Firewall concepts like Security Zones, Security policy ordering, Searching and Sorting Audit logs, Address Sets, negated addresses, User Roles and tables, route-based policies, address-books, Application traffic control.
5. Should have good understanding and extensive hands-on experience on various security technologies including Firewalls, VPNs, IDS/IPS, endpoint security solutions (AV, HIPS, Hard Disk Encryption), strong Authentication products (RSA SecurID), Content Security Gateways (Cisco IronPort Web/Mail Security Gateways), Cisco Client, TACACS/AAA solutions. Hands-on experience in more than one technology is preferred.
6. Understanding and experience with routing protocols.
7. Understanding of F5 load balancers.
8. Should have good presentation skills - shall be able to participate in review meetings and be able to put across the points of concern.
9. Should have capability to conduct risk analysis, impact analysis, dependencies on customer/internal teams.
10. Knowledge and experience of working with ITIL Processes.

Non-Technical Responsibilities

1. Coordinate with other team members for availability of capable resources.
2. Ensure quality work - review and validate the technical configuration changes.
3. Coordinate with COE resources for resolution of technical issues/problems before escalation to OEM.

Technical Responsibilities

1. Configuration of Cisco Client.
2. Configuration of Cisco, Palo Alto Firewalls, and other security technologies.
3. Articulate or highlight risks/dependencies.
4. Participation in an on-call support rotation required.
5. Firewall Auditing and review access control lists and updating firewalls as needed.
6. Interacting with various teams in managing the log management solution.
7. Adhering to high-quality standards and best practices, high performance, and scalable, repeatable processes and deliverables in accordance with applicable regulations.
8. Analyze, troubleshoot, and investigate network security-related incidents based on security platform reporting, network traffic, log files, host-based and automated security alerts.
9. Evaluate systems using vulnerability scanners and manual techniques to verify system security settings and configurations.