Senior Network Security Engineer

About the role

A leading Cisco environment is looking for a highly experienced Network Security Consultant to provide technical leadership, customer consultancy and hands-on delivery across complex enterprise and data centre infrastructures. The role sits within a Cisco Advanced Services environment.

Key responsibilities

• Lead the delivery of project-based and subscription services.
• Act as a trusted advisor to customer stakeholders on security architecture, best practices and emerging trends.
• Deliver operational support, optimisation, troubleshooting and implementation across enterprise and data centre networks.
• Resolve complex cross-functional issues spanning networking, security, virtualisation, servers, storage, operating systems, applications and cloud.
• Work with Cisco customers onsite, representing Cisco alongside a team of engineers.
• Mentor less experienced engineers and take ownership of project outcomes.

Required profile

• 15+ years in IT Security, including 8+ years in network security.
• Expert-level troubleshooting in large-scale enterprise environments.
• Strong customer-facing consulting and stakeholder management skills.

Required skills

• Cisco Firepower (FTD), NGFW, IPS, AMP, Cisco ISE, ACS-to-ISE migrations, pxGrid and wired/wireless security.
• Cisco routing and switching, security architecture and design, enterprise security operations and incident resolution.
• Cisco Stealthwatch, Cisco ESA, Cisco ASA and network automation/scripting.