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Verizon

Senior Network Security Consultant

Verizon, Ashburn, Virginia, United States, 22011

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When you join Verizon, you’ll join a culture that values innovation, creativity, and impact. We empower people to live, work, and play through global connectivity, delivering technology that brings joy and connection.

What You’ll Be Doing

Act as a technical lead in delivery of projects acting as a network security SME, ensuring that solutions remain in scope and are aligned to agreed business requirements, appropriate delivery methodologies are followed and effective governance is applied.

Delivery of smaller stand‑alone projects as required.

Provide support and guidance to consultants working on other Network Security projects.

Provide peer reviews of HLD, LLD and other project documentation as required.

Work with internal and external stakeholders to understand business requirements and prepare appropriate technical solution designs at both high and low levels.

Maintain day‑to‑day records of project work to allow accurate billing and reporting of consultancy time.

Maintain an effective network of business contacts within Verizon and their partner community.

Maintain and grow your own knowledge to ensure this remains fully relevant to the network security services practice and its clients.

Have strong presentation and written/verbal communication skills at multiple levels of an organization.

Have network security consulting, design and delivery experience.

What We’re Looking For

Bachelor’s degree or four or more years of work experience.

Four or more years of relevant work experience.

Technical expertise within most of the following technologies:

Firewalls: Checkpoint, Juniper, Palo Alto, Cisco ASA/FTD, Fortinet.

Proxy Services: Bluecoat (forward/reverse proxy), Zscaler.

Load Balancers: F5 (LTM/GTM).

IDP/IPS: FirePower/Sourcefire IPS/IDS, McAfee.

Identity & Access Management: Cisco ISE, Aruba Clearpass policy manager; CyberArk.

Routing & Switching: (CCNP/CCNA level), and good knowledge of SD‑WAN deployments.

Good understanding of key technologies such as: VRF, dynamic routing (EIGRP/BGP/OSPF), MPLS, DMVPN, GRE, IPSec VPN.

Remote Access VPN: GlobalProtect, Pulse Secure, Cisco AnyConnect.

Knowledge of Cloud deployments (Azure/AWS/GCP).

Experience with building, maintaining, reviewing all configurations/settings/policies on chosen technologies.

Experience of multi‑vendor, managed outsourcing environments.

Experience working with operational environments following ITIL frameworks.

Excellent troubleshooting skills (technical and non‑technical).

Experience participating in network & system security projects to provide production of detailed infrastructure designs including physical and virtual aspects of security components.

Migration of complex legacy infrastructures to new managed security services platforms.

Willingness to travel up to 25%.

Even Better if You Have

Following certifications: CCNA/CCNP (Enterprise/Security/Data Center), CISSP or equivalent, Palo Alto (PCNSA/PCNSE), Checkpoint (CCSA/CCSE), Fortinet (NSE), F5 Certified BIG‑IP Administrator, Zscaler (ZCCA‑IA, ZCCA‑PA).

Business requirements analysis and support for Solutions Architects.

Experience using Jira to help define user stories, tasks and associated estimates.

Ability to review processes and procedures – and improve them.

Understanding and demonstrable experience working in an Agile environment and actively participating in a Scrum team.

Why Verizon? Verizon is committed to maintaining a total rewards package that is competitive, valued by our employees, and differentiates us as an employer of choice.

We offer generous paid time off benefits, competitive salaries, performance‑based incentives and an employee stock program. Our health and wellbeing resources include a best‑in‑class employee assistance program. We provide training and development opportunities, flexible working arrangements, and volunteering opportunities.

Your benefits package will vary depending on your country of work.

Where you’ll be working In this hybrid role, you’ll have a defined work location that includes working from home and a minimum of three days per week in the office, which will be set by your manager. Employees are responsible for maintaining compliance with hybrid work policies.

Scheduled Weekly Hours 40

Equal Employment Opportunity Verizon is an equal‑opportunity employer. We evaluate qualified applicants without regard to veteran status, disability or other legally protected characteristics.

Benefits And Compensation Our benefits are designed to help you move forward in your career, and in areas of your life outside of Verizon. We offer medical, dental, vision, short‑ and long‑term disability, life insurance, supplemental life insurance, AD&D insurance, identity theft protection, pet insurance, group home & auto insurance, a matched 401(k) savings plan, stock incentive programs, paid parental leave, adoption assistance, tuition assistance, and more.

The salary range for this position is $81,000.00 – $155,000.00 per year, based on experience and location.

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