Infrastructure Security Specialist - Firewall and ZTNA

We Are

Accenture Security helps organizations prepare, protect, detect, respond, and recover along all points of the security lifecycle. Cybersecurity challenges are different for every business in every industry. Leveraging our global resources and advanced technologies, we create integrated, turnkey solutions tailored to our clients’ needs across their entire value chain. Whether we’re defending against known cyberattacks, detecting and responding to the unknown, or running an entire security operations center, we will help companies build cyber resilience to grow with confidence. Our team of the security sector’s brightest people use the coolest tech to out-hack the hackers and help clients build resilience from within. We blend risk strategy, digital identity, cyber defense, application security and managed service solutions to rethink the entire security lifecycle.

You Are

Passionate about security, love what you do and have a genuine desire to outsmart the bad guys. You have the experience to analyze a clients’ security posture, anticipate security requirements and help find right-sized solutions based on industry leading practices. You have a proven track record working successfully in a fast-paced, team-oriented environment. You’re a creative, analytical problem solver with above average documentation skills who can speak to both technical and non-technical audiences. Can apply deep security skills to design, build and protect enterprise systems, applications, data, assets and people for Accenture and our clients. You are eager to put your skills to use by helping us help our clients inject security at every level of their organization.

Job Description

Infrastructure Security strengthens clients’ ability to detect, prevent, and respond to infrastructure threats (networks, clouds, and securing IoT). This includes cloud security, network architecture transformation, network security controls, modern secure remote access, endpoint detection & response.

The candidate should have strong experience in security technologies including Firewalls, VPN/ZTNA WAF, Web Proxy, IDS/IPS, and generate metrics related to Security, Network performance, capacity and availability.

Key responsibilities for infrastructure security consulting practitioners include:

This is an operations role responsible for managing and maintaining client’s network security operations. This includes supporting perimeter firewalls, web application firewalls, IDS/IPS, and azure security.

Run and Operate:

• Knowledge with SASE/ZTNA and NGFW architecture, design, implementation, and troubleshooting
• Demonstrated technical agility to learn and deploy new SASE/ZTNA and NGFW technologies for medium to large businesses
• Minimum 2 year of working experience on Zero Trust Network Access AND NGFW infrastructure security assessments and/or architecture design
• Minimum of 2 years of experience in cloud & infrastructure security, including designing and architecting solutions based on client requirements.
• Minimum of 2 year of experience in consulting and implementing cloud & infrastructure solutions across various service areas/groups.
• Understanding of routing, Firewall, VPN, and SD-WAN
• Network troubleshooting background
• Knowledge of Network Architecture Design for Hybrid environments (on-premises and in the cloud)
• Knowledge and understanding of Azure Cloud native security services with a good to have experience of another cloud service provide (AWS or GCP)
• Deep knowledge and understanding Hyperscaler native security capabilities
• Capability to maintain policy, procedure documentation, including regular reviews and updates.
• Automate operational tasks to make processes simpler and more robust.
• Performing changes in the network following the change management process.
• Administering perimeter security systems such as firewalls, intrusion detection systems, and web proxy.

Basic Qualifications

Minimum of 3 years of experience in network security design and operations, and network administration.

Minimum of 3 years hands on experience implementing firewall solutions (Cisco preferred, Palo Alto) for large Canadian or multi-national companies.

Must have a strong technical knowledge of security operations, security monitoring, network segmentation, security controls relating to IPS/IDS systems, and firewall technologies (Cisco).

Minimum of 2 years of experience with Platform Security (UNIX/Windows).

Minimum 1 year of network packet capture and interpretation experience.

In possession of, or able to qualify for, Canadian federal security clearance (reliability level).

Preferred Skills:

Minimum Bachelor’s degree.

Vendor certifications (CCNP, CCIE, PCNSE, AZ-500).

Industry recognized Professional Security certification (e.g. CISSP)

Experience working for the Big 4 or Global SI is highly desired.

Knowledge of cyber defense vendors and product capabilities is desirable.

Willing to travel as required.

Compensation at Accenture varies depending on a wide array of factors, which may include but are not limited to the specific office location,

role, skill set, and level of experience. As required by local law, Accenture provides a reasonable range of compensation, based on full-time

employment, for roles that may be hired as set forth below.

The recruiting efforts for this position are intended to fill a brand new position.

The base pay range shown below is intended as a guideline to reflect the majority of offers for this role.

It does not represent a maximum limit — in some cases, actual compensation may exceed the range where appropriate.

Information on benefits is here:

Role Location Annual Salary Range

British Columbia/Ontario $75,400 to $125,400