Extended Expertise Consultant (Contractor)

You will provide guidance and technical support to clients deploying our security integrations. You ll act as the technical partner, providing strategic guidance around complex systems to secure a digital environment. Interacting directly with the client, you ll partner closely with client personnel to guide and suggest integrations to better serve their success. Your thorough understanding of our product integrations contributes to the development of new principles and concepts providing detailed analysis around what s working, what s not, and what could be better. You enjoy implementation work, are proactive about resolving potential concerns, and operate well around strict best practices that enable our clients on their road to a more secure digital world. You re creative, innovative, and you love a challenge learning how integrations might work better around new products and technologies.

Your Impact

Work full-time at the customer site or remotely

Communicate with the customer(s), sales teams, peers, engineering and support teams as appropriate

Understand the customer environment, requirements, and security roadmap to implement the appropriate security solution

Configure, implement, and maintain Security Operating Platform

Optimize and migrate policies and objects from the existing environment to our Next-Gen Firewall

Test and validate the migration environment

Coordinate and execute cutover to production

Provide guidance on code upgrades

Facilitate the development of new application and threat signatures

Interact with our Technical Assistance Center (TAC) to understand and diagnose support cases

Some travel may be required, dependent on customer request

You work with the customer's security & network teams to build confidence across the business units impacted by the change to Client

Your Experience:

High level of experience with Panorama and log collectors

NGFW

Global Protect

BS in Computer Science, MIS, business, or equivalent education/training/experience

Minimum of 5 years experience with network/security solutions and technologies (BGP, SD-WAN concepts, VXLAN and general routing and switching)

Minimum of 3 years experience leading security solutions in large environments)

Detailed technical experience in the installation, configuration, and operation of high-end firewall appliances, ideally Client's products

You're experienced in internetworking, LAN, and WAN technologies

You have a good understanding of Internet protocols and applications

Possess the following industry certifications: CISSP, CCNA, CNSE, JNCIE-SEC

You effectively handle multiple projects and work calmly in high pressure

You're an excellent writer, with strong verbal communication skills, with demonstrable ability to communicate to senior leaders and technical peer