Associate Architect- Network Security

Position : Network Security Architect

Location : Bangalore

Experience: 10yrs- 15yrs

Notice : Immediate

Role & responsibilities

• Act as the highestlevel (L4) escalation point for complex network security incidents, architecture issues, and crossplatform troubleshooting.
• Demonstrate deep expertlevel handson knowledge of multivendor firewalls including
• Cisco FTD/FMC ACP, NAT, SSL/TLS inspection, VPN, clustering, advanced debugs
• Fortigate Policies, NAT, IPS/SSL inspection, SDWAN, HA, FortiManager/FortiAnalyzer
• Palo Alto AppID, UserID, Threat & URL filtering, NAT, GlobalProtect, Panorama
• Checkpoint (R8x) – SmartConsole, Identity Awareness, IPS, ClusterXL, advanced policy tuning
• Sophos XG/UTM – ATP, IPS, web/app filtering, VPN, HA
• Lead multiple customer projects simultaneously, ensuring endtoend design, delivery, implementation, migrations, and cutovers.
• Drive technical strategy, security architecture decisions, and align solutions with business requirements and compliance standards.
• Own weekly, daily, and executive-level communications on project progress, incident updates, delivery status, and operational metrics.
• Oversee and improve the support model, ensuring smooth operations between L2, L3, SOC, and network teams.
• Provide technical governance, validate solution designs, review configurations, and enforce best practices across all deployments.
• Perform indepth packet analysis, traffic flow validation, and root cause investigations for major incidents.
• Manage and optimize IPSec/SSL VPN, intersite connectivity, routing dependencies, and highavailability clusters.
• Review and optimize firewall rules bases, signatures, NAT configurations, and security policies for performance and compliance.
• Serve as the technical mentor for L2 and L3 engineers conduct training, knowledge transfer sessions, and skill development plans.
• Participate in CAB/change management, approve highrisk changes, and oversee major upgrades and migrations.
• Collaborate with stakeholders, crossfunctional teams, vendors, and customers to ensure successful delivery and customer satisfaction.
• Maintain highquality documentation, architecture diagrams, SOPs, RCA reports, and project artifacts.
• Drive proactive improvements, automation initiatives, and continuous optimization of network security operations.

Note: If the above JD is matching to your profile and you are able to within 15 days, please share your updated resume to below mail id. [email removed]

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