Technical Manager – Network and Edge Security

November 7

🏈 Alabama – Remote

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🦌 Connecticut – Remote

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🏈 Alabama – Remote 🦌 Connecticut – Remote ⚓ Rhode Island – Remote 🤠 Texas – Remote 🦬 Wyoming – Remote

💵 $134.6k - $184.5k / year

⏰ Full Time

🟠 Senior

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Optiv Security is the cyber advisory and solutions leader, delivering strategic and technical expertise to nearly 6,000 companies across every major industry. We partner with organizations to advise, deploy and operate cybersecurity programs from strategy and managed security services to risk, integration and technology solutions. With clients at the center of our unmatched ecosystem of people, products, partners and programs, we accelerate business progress like no other company can.We manage cyber risk so you can secure your full potential.

1001 - 5000 employees

Founded 2012

📋 Description

• Act as the senior technical leader on consulting engagements, ensuring technical excellence and delivery quality. • Translate client business goals and security requirements into actionable technical strategies, architectures, and roadmaps. • Lead complex problem-solving, troubleshooting, and architecture design for network and edge security programs and related security technologies. • Provide oversight on 2-10 concurrent engagements, ensuring both technical and business outcomes are met. • Deliver technical and business oversight to projects, including proactive management of project risks, quality, and client satisfaction. • Provide thought leadership through participation in industry groups, delivering talks, writing technical and industry-specific blogs, vulnerability research, industry PR interviews, and/or contributing to security publications. • Collaborate as a technical expert with Practice Managers, Marketing, and Sales support organizations to develop new go-to-market solutions. • Lead client workshops, assessments, and executive briefings, often in front of both technical and non-technical stakeholders. • Drive continuous improvement of consulting methodologies, tools, processes, and deliverables to improve efficiency and quality. • Mentor, coach, and formally develop junior consultants and senior consultants, directly influencing their career growth. (No Direct Reports) • Maintain a pulse on the network and edge security technology ecosystem, continuously tracking market trends, emerging threats, and evolving best practices.

🎯 Requirements

• 7+ years of experience in network and edge security • 5+ years of experience in consulting • Deep experience with Cisco’s security technologies. Additional experience with Palo, Fortinet, Netskope, or Zscaler is preferred. • Experience and comfort with picking up new technologies as aligned to market demand. • Proven ability to lead complex technical projects with both hands-on and oversight responsibilities. • Strong background in network security architecture, engineering, and administration across multiple technology domains such as NAC, Firewall, Route/Switch, SASE, and Identity. • Prior experience in consulting engagement oversight, including managing project health, quality, and client outcomes. • Ability to clearly articulate technical concepts and business value to executive, technical, and operational stakeholders. • Proven experience in a pre-sales, post-sales, or non-sales technical capacity in an information security environment. • Strong written, verbal, and presentation communication skills, including experience leading workshops and executive briefings. • Demonstrated thought leadership through content creation, public speaking, or community contributions preferred. • Desire and capability to mentor others, raise team capability, and lead by example. • Comfort operating in ambiguity, balancing multiple projects, and prioritizing effectively. • Currently holds and maintains a CCIE Security and at least one other Tier 2 or Tier 3 certification in the network and edge security domain (CCNP/CCIE equivalents)

🏖️ Benefits

• Work/life balance • Professional training resources • Creative problem-solving and the ability to tackle unique, complex projects • Volunteer Opportunities.