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Security Consultant III-Network & Information Security

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When you join Verizon
You want more out of a career. A place to share your ideas freely — even if they’re daring or different. Where the true you can learn, grow, and thrive. At Verizon, we power and empower how people live, work and play by connecting them to what brings them joy. We do what we love — driving innovation, creativity, and impact in the world. Our V Team is a community of people who anticipate, lead, and believe that listening is where learning begins. In crisis and in celebration, we come together — lifting our communities and building trust in how we show up, everywhere & always. Want in? Join the #VTeamLife.

What You’ll Be Doing...

You'll be part of the "Verizon Global Infrastructure (VGI), Network & Information Security” group working on securing the network and infra devices, harden the operating systems, configurations and build use cases to automate these tasks. Protect against cyber threats within the VGS Technology organization. You will work with a team of cybersecurity engineers with network & infrastructure background, threat intelligence analysts to align common technologies and practices that fortify our applications, systems, IT network and infrastructure.
Some of your daily responsibilities would be the following.
  • Leverage industry proven tools to identify and reduce Cyber Risks
  • Implement next generation network security architecture, create advanced policies and controls against future threats
  • Ensure effectiveness and coverage of security, policies and controls of VGS Network & Infrastructure, prioritizing risk level.
  • Ensure Security posture of VGS Network & Infrastructure, e.g., access management, vulnerabilities remediation, etc.
  • Develop awareness, training & compliance programs focused on Network & Infrastructure Cyber Security practices.
  • Coordinate activities like network, penetration testing, incident response, data collection etc by partnering with the CISO teams.
  • Assist in Crisis Management, Ransomware Recovery and Business Continuity planning.
  • Identify, investigate and resolve global security breaches / incidents
  • Develop and maintain network and infrastructure security reporting dashboards and scorecards used to measure our Cyber Practice.
  • Identify opportunities and use cases for automation to remediate vulnerabilities, implement controls, orchestrate between tools and automate security practices.

What We’re Looking For...

You are passionate about network security and automation as a career. You are self-driven and motivated, with good communication and analytical skills. You’re a sought-after team member that thrives in a dynamic work environment. You will be working with multiple partners from the business groups, so networking and managing effective working relationships should be your top most priority. You have an understanding of industry trends in all areas of Information Security.

You'll Need To Have

  • Bachelor’s degree or four or more years of work experience.
  • Four or more years of relevant work experience.
  • Four or more years of experience in network / information security, risk and compliance management.
  • Understanding of network fundamentals, switching, routing protocols, load balancers, web proxies, firewalls and software defined networking solutions.
  • Understanding of security fundamentals Confidentiality, Integrity, Availability, access control, Authentication, Authorization, Auditing secure design concepts like
  • Experience in design and implementation of network security solutions like firewalls, intrusion detection and prevention systems, VPN, web proxies etc using vendor products like Cisco, Juniper, Checkpoint, Palo Alto etc
  • Experience in managing public cloud infrastructure like AWS, Azure, GCP etc
  • Experience working in any one of the SIEM / SOAR solutions like Splunk SOAR, Cortex XSOAR by Palo Alto Networks, IBM Security QRadar SOAR, Swimlane etc
  • Experience working on IT ticketing systems like JIRA, Service Now and ability to partner and collaborate with other teams in the organization
  • Experience with hosting security awareness campaigns, gamification and bug bounty programs will be an added advantage
  • Strong analytical problem solving, communication and interpersonal skills
  • Passion to stay abreast with emerging technologies, network security trends, tools and techniques.

Even better if you have one or more of the following:

  • Master’s degree in Computer Science / Information Technology Engineering.
  • Industry relevant security certifications Security+, OSCP, CEH, CISSP, GIAC, etc
  • Cloud relevant certifications CCSP, CCSK
  • Strong expertise in at least one operating system Window or Linux.
  • Strong Scripting expertise in any one of Python, R, Perl, Javascript, Powershell, bash, VBScript etc
Where you’ll be working
In this hybrid role, you'll have a defined work location that includes work from home and assigned office days set by your manager.Scheduled Weekly Hours40Equal Employment OpportunityVerizon is an equal opportunity employer. We evaluate qualified applicants without regard to race, gender, disability or any other legally protected characteristics.

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Verizon
Verizon

Telecommunications

New York

135,000 Employees

511 Jobs

    Key People

  • Hans Vestberg

    Chairman and CEO
  • Rami Rahim

    CEO of Verizon Business

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