AddressLocation: UK - Mobile England | Job-ID: 207291 | Contract type: Standard | Business Unit: IT Consulting
Principal Consultant (Secure Networking)
Life on the team
A fantastic opportunity has arisen to join our dynamic and rapidly expanding Consultancy Practice within Computacenter. The ideal candidate will have experience of working in a consultancy position with focus on traditional, advanced and emerging and network solutions.
Computacenter is experiencing high growth across all our networking technology services and the position will suit a candidate that enjoys a fast moving and varied role, working into enterprise customers that require the definition and delivery of advanced technology solutions.
Whilst the candidate will be expected to demonstrate the right level of technical expertise and certification in the disciplines required, Computacenter prides itself on continuous development of our employees. By joining the team, the candidate will benefit from involvement in highly complex interesting projects but will also receive ongoing targeted training that will advance their technical knowledge and career progression.
What you'll do
• Working as part of team or as the lead consultant with experience around:
o Enterprise level project design and delivery activities
o Onsite customer facing activities
o Outcome based deliverables
o High quality documentation
o Customer relationships
o Personal time and quality management
• Strong traditional networking experience supported by vendor certification
• Exposure to advanced and emerging technologies: Software Defined Networks; Network Security; Network Automation (IaC); Cloud Networking and Security; Network Observability.
• Broad understanding of network security
• Input or lead pre-sales opportunities
• Minimum 10 years’ experience as a consultant in a professional services organisation
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills
• Excellent troubleshooting skills
• Good presentation skills
• Experience in attending workshops to steer and capture customer requirements
• Owning high level designs to ensure the required solution is documented and delivered
• Demonstrable hands-on expertise in delivering traditional and advanced network solutions
• Assist with pre-sales engagements; qualification of design and/or opportunities to win customer business
• Attend and present at customer meetings to ensure and understanding of customer requirements and to assist with knowledge transfer
• Lead assignments ensuring design solutions meet the customer contractual requirements and on occasions act as Team Leader to achieve appropriate outcomes and deliverables.
• Quality Assure all deliverables produced by team members to ensure consistency and accuracy of data
• Build and maintain relationships with key stakeholders across Computacenter
• Keep up to date with current and future market developments, technologies, product and strategies
• Manage design and implementation of low risk/medium scale solutions
• Contribute to development initiatives aligned to a specific technology to Practice
• Act in accordance with Computacenter Information Security Policies and report any potential or actual Security events or other Security risks to the organisation
What you'll need
Technical Capabilities:
Expected networking certifications:
• Certified CCNP R&S and/or Security (CCIE preferred (full))
• Aruba ACCP/ACMP
• Palo Alto Certified PCSNE
• Fortinet Certified FNCSE
• HP Aruba ACCX/ACMX/ACDX
• Zscaler ZTCA
Desirable networking experience:
• Cisco ACI
• Cisco SDA / DNAC
• Cisco SD-WAN (Viptela)
• Tier One security vendor certification, one of: Checkpoint, Palo Alto, Fortinet
• HP Aruba Wireless and Networking
• HP Aruba Clearpass
• Cisco Identity Services Engine (ISE)
• Cisco Thousand Eyes
• Cisco Devnet
• IOT/OT networking experience
Desirable programmability experience:
• Terraform
• Ansible
• Python
• Jenkins
About us
With over 20,000 employees across the globe, we work at the heart of digitisation, advising organisations on IT strategy, implementing the most appropriate technology, and helping our customers to source, transform and manage their technology infrastructure in over 70 countries. We deliver digital technology to some of the world’s greatest organisations, driving digital transformation, enabling people and their business.
