Principal Technical Consultant – Network Security

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🕒 6 days ago

🇺🇸 United States – Remote

💵 $210k - $240k / year

⏰ Full Time

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🛜 Network Engineer / Network Administrator

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AHEAD

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1001 - 5000 employees

💼 Consulting

🤖 Artificial Intelligence

🏢 Enterprise

💰 $5.7M Venture Round - AHEAD on 2024-05

Consulting • Artificial Intelligence • Enterprise

AHEAD is a technology consulting and systems-integration firm that accelerates digital transformation by engineering integrated solutions across infrastructure, applications, data, and security. The company specializes in AI transformation and AI-enabled infrastructure, data platform and platform/workload modernization, secure and resilient architectures, operational excellence, and managed services including IT lifecycle and procurement (AHEAD Hatch) and hardware integration (AHEAD Foundry). AHEAD delivers end-to-end services from strategy and financial consulting to build and run operations, partners with major cloud and infrastructure vendors (AWS, Google Cloud, Microsoft, Cisco, Dell, VMware, NVIDIA, ServiceNow, Palo Alto Networks, Rubrik, etc. ), and serves enterprise clients across industries such as healthcare, financial services, manufacturing, retail, and public sector.

📋 Description

• Serve as the senior technical leader for network security engagements across next-generation firewalls, Cisco ISE network access control, F5 BIG-IP load balancing and application delivery, and SASE/Zero Trust architectures. • Design, deploy, and troubleshoot complex multi-domain networking and security environments. • Lead large, multi-technology projects and cross-functional delivery teams from discovery and architecture through implementation, testing, cutover, and knowledge transfer. • Lead client-facing discovery sessions, design workshops, architecture reviews, and technical strategy discussions. • Create high-level and low-level designs, network diagrams, policy matrices, implementation runbooks, migration plans, rollback procedures, and as-built documentation. • Serve as design authority and technical escalation point for consultants and offshore engineers. • Train client operations teams on day-two platform administration and incident response. • Support sales campaigns as a subject matter expert and contribute to statements of work, proposals, and scope estimates. • Build reusable delivery assets, automation, enablement materials, technical content, and reference architectures. • Mentor technical consultants and advance practice delivery maturity. • Own engagement quality, documentation, technical outcomes, client satisfaction, risk escalation, and delivery timelines. • Maintain a 60 percent target utilization, with remaining capacity for presales, mentorship, practice development, and thought leadership.

🎯 Requirements

• 10 or more years of network security, infrastructure security, or security engineering experience, including at least 4 years in consulting, professional services, or client-facing delivery. • Hands-on enterprise production experience with next-generation firewalls on at least two of Palo Alto Networks, Cisco Secure Firewall, and Fortinet platforms. • Production experience deploying Cisco ISE for 802.1X, TACACS+, and network access policy enforcement across wired, wireless, and VPN environments, including distributed nodes. • Production experience with F5 BIG-IP application delivery, including Local Traffic Manager and either BIG-IP DNS or BIG-IP Advanced WAF. • Production experience with at least one SASE platform: Zscaler ZIA/ZPA or Palo Alto Prisma Access, including secure web gateway, CASB, ZTNA policy configuration, and connector or traffic-forwarding design. • Strong understanding of BGP, OSPF, EIGRP, IPsec, SSL/TLS, network segmentation, DNS, and Zero Trust architecture. • Experience with AWS VPC, Azure VNet, and GCP VPC, including security groups, cloud firewalls, cloud-native load balancing, and hybrid connectivity. • Experience with Okta, Microsoft Entra ID, SAML 2.0, and SCIM integrations. • Experience integrating security platforms with Splunk, Microsoft Sentinel, and syslog infrastructure. • Experience automating deployment with Terraform, Ansible, and vendor REST APIs. • Demonstrated ability to independently lead large, multi-technology and cross-practice projects and direct other technical resources. • Executive-level written and verbal communication skills and ability to produce client-ready deliverables. • Ability to travel at least 25 percent. • Preferred, not required: CCIE Security or equivalent, PCNSE/PCNSC, Fortinet NSE 7/8, F5 certifications, Zscaler ZCCA/ZCCP, CCNP Security, CISSP, microsegmentation, additional SSE platforms, regulated-environment compliance, multi-cloud IaC/CI/CD, consulting or managed-services experience, mentoring, and technical content authorship.

🏖️ Benefits

• Medical, Dental, and Vision Insurance • 401(k) • Paid company holidays • Paid time off • Paid parental and caregiver leave • Cross department training and development • Sponsored certifications and credentials for continued learning • Multi-million-dollar technology lab • Diversity, belonging, and employee resource groups including Moving Women AHEAD and RISE AHEAD