Lead Consultant, Network Security - Chicago - Computacenter

Description

About the role

Provide technical governance and assurance of complex solutions that span across multiple technical streams. This role has a network security focus.

What you have

• Partner with business leaders to deliver services that support company objectives and that are consistent with Winning Together values.
• Design and engineering of effective and scalable network systems and solutions
• Participate in evaluation, testing, selection, and deployment of foundational network elements for a network buildout
• Ensure that solutions adhere to defined standards and best practices and/or assist in the development of these standards and best practices.
• Effectively design and communicate engineering solutions through detailed high- and low-level diagrams
• Routinely research, analyze, test, retest, and troubleshoot complex problems
• Able to work in a fast-paced environment, with strict deadlines, both as an individual contributor and team leader
• Proven experience in knowledge transfer, documentation and information sharing while staying abreast of new technology/technical areas
• Provide advanced technical experience for complex project work, including functional subsystem upgrades for mission-critical network devices and services as well as strategic upgrades to the network
• Design, plan, and implement complex networks
• Establish requirements, provide analysis for network and services specifications, network design, network partitioning, and network architecture definition
• Provide advanced expertise in the development of network test, validation, and integration plans on projects, and assurance of network integrity
• Engage with Solutioning and Sales teams as a subject matter expert during customer calls
• Ability to mentor junior engineers in advanced technology deployments
• Time management and the ability to multitask between several ongoing projects
• Assist with development of SoW and LoE documentation
• Travel as required for customer and vendor engagements
• Embrace and support Computacenter's mission and core values.

What you'll be doing

• 10+ years of professional experience in large enterprise or carrier space
• Professional networking certifications a plus (i.e. CCNP/CCIE or equivalent)
• Public cloud certifications a plus - Advanced Networking, Cloud Network Engineer, or equivalent
• Legally eligible to work in the United States
• Cisco ISE Experience with Wired / Wireless Deployments of wired 802.1x roll outs, TACACS+, upgrades of ISE deployments, and migrations of ISE. Experience with SDA, Trustsec, guest portal and other portal flows.
• Palo Alto experience with Panorama and Palo Alto firewalls. Experience with migrations, upgrades, troubleshooting, and other efforts with Palo Alto firewalls and with Panorama. Site to site tunnel configuration, Security / NAT configuration, Global protect Configuration and MFA.
• Cisco Secure Firewall (FTD) and ASA experience. Experience configuring and deploying FMC's virtually and physically. Site-to-site VPN, Remote Access VPN, and experience configuring Firepowers as both FTD's associated with FMC and also with FDM. Experience with Cloud delivered FMC is a plus.
• Experience with managing projects to include task delegations, documentation, risk management, and technical ownership.
• Solid Understanding of the OSI model, routing and switching protocols, network security, IPv4 networking, subnetting, and operational experience
• Demonstrated confidence to deliver customer-facing discussions.
• Excellent verbal articulation, written communications
• Hands-on technical skills, including ability to develop and conduct demonstrations

What you can expect

There's so much more to enjoy about being at Computacenter than just having a rewarding career. In addition to offering competitive compensation plans and long-term career opportunities, we provide an attractive mix of benefit plans to contribute to your good health, future financial security, and peace of mind.

About us

Computacenter is a leading independent technology partner, trusted by large corporate and public sector organizations. We help our world-renowned customers to source, transform, and manage their IT infrastructure to deliver digital transformation, enabling users and their business. We're a public company quoted on the London FTSE 250 (CCC.L) and employ over 20,000 people worldwide. In the US, we support some of the country's best-known businesses with regional hubs in San Francisco and Irvine, CA; Norcross, GA; Plano, TX; and New York City; and Integration Centers in Silicon Valley and Atlanta.