This position will be fully remote and can be hired anywhere in the continental U.S.
The Principal Consultant will be pivotal to problem definition and discovery of the overall solution and guide teams on project processes, deliverables. This individual will drive the technical relationship with our customers and partners by providing advanced architecture, implementation and operational support.
Acts as overall industry leaders and leaders of technical excellence providing exceptional services and support to strategic clients setting the bar for others to aspire to.
How you will make an impact:
Comfortably delivers solo-based work or act as "point" for complex projects
Acts as technical escalation point to assist other consultants
Leads solution architecture, capacity planning and HW specification recommendation efforts
Leads all Palo Alto Network and Edge Security deployment activities and third-party system integration
Participate in User Acceptance Testing and bug-related engineering efforts.
Design and implement on specific technology build processes, code migration, and source control use
Provide knowledge transfer and post production support activities as necessary
Effective team communicator
Maintain professional and technical knowledge by attending educational workshops; reviewing professional publications; establishing personal networks; participating in professional associations such as ISACA, CSA, etc
Obtain and maintain top tier vendor certification
Complete administrative project tasks like time and expense entry, status reporting, and project completion reporting
Acts as contributor in Optiv communities for solutions of focus
What we're looking for:
Expert hands-on experience architecting and implementing large-scale Palo Alto NGFW, VM-Series, Prisma Access
Expert hands-on in Public and Private Cloud, VM-Series, and/or Prisma Access/SASE
Expert hands-on experience with public cloud providers specifically AWS, Azure and optionally GCP
Expert experience with advanced private cloud and micro segmentation
Expert experience with container network and runtime security (CN-Series) is highly-desired
4-7 years of hands-on experience with Palo Alto
Minimum 4 years of professional Information Security experience in a consulting, vendor or enterprise-level role
Minimum Palo Alto Certification Level PCNSE or PCSFE in-addition to the PCNSC highly preferred
Ideal candidates will have experience in Fortinet and Palo Alto
Highly preferred certifications: Fortinet NSE7, FCSE
InfoSec/Cyber implementation experience
Fully qualified/certified on 1 or more technologies
Experience in a customer facing/consulting capacity
Demonstrated ability to lead junior consulting professionals
Ability to work US hours (any time zone- Pacific/Mountain/Central/Eastern time zone)
What you can expect from Optiv
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