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Introduction
Information and Data are some of the most important organizational assets in today’s businesses. As a Security Consultant, you will be a key advisor for IBM’s clients, analyzing business requirements to design and implement the best security solutions for their needs. You will apply your technical skills to find the balance between enabling and securing the client's organization with the cognitive solutions that are making IBM the fastest growing enterprise security business in the world.

 

Your role and responsibilities
  • Daily Health check of multi-vendor Security Devices and action according to the findings.
  • Analysis and response to Device monitoring alerts/tickets.
  • Troubleshooting and logical thinking skills to resolve issues at the earliest.
  • Security device (Firewall, WAF, Proxy, IPS/IDS) configuration, changes and administration keeping best security practices.
  • Support the incident response team during major security incident with advance investigation skills.
  • Closely work with SOC team and be responsible for incident detection, triage, analysis and response and resolution.
  • Handle L2 and above level technical escalations from L1 Operations team and resolve within SLA.
  • Periodic security rule review and suggestions for continuous improvement of client security posture.
  • Escalation handling, reporting and resolutions within SLA.
  • Preparation and walkthrough of the daily, weekly, and monthly reports to the customer/stake holders.
  • Ready to work in 24x7 rotational shift model including night shift.
  • Incorporate and follow all change management processes and procedures as outlined by the customer.
  • Identify the process and technology gaps and drive for closure.
  • Explore different technologies available in the security industry.
  • Coordination with different stakeholders for closure of SR/CR/IN.
  • Coordination with internal customers for their security related problems and providing solutions.
  • Create and manage various KEDBs the SOPs, runbooks, asset inventory with risk classification, critical application flow diagram, network flow diagram, privileged user list.
  • Continually improve upon skills and ability to learn new technologies
  • Mentor and monitor L1 team members for their daily activities.
  • Provide KT and required training to other team members.


Who you are: Cloud and Infrastructure Security Operations Delivery
What you’ll do:  Support multiple customer using multi-vendor security tools and technologies by securing their day to day business delivery.

Required education
Bachelor's Degree
Preferred education
Bachelor's Degree
Required technical and professional expertise
  • Handson experience in at least two vendor firewalls (Fortigate/PaloAlto/Checkpoint/Cisco/Juniper/ Sonicwall, Azure native)
  • Handson experience in at least one vendor Web Application Firewall (WAF) is an added benefits.(Fortigate/F5/Checkpoint/ Cisco/Citrix NetScaler/Azure Native)
  • Handson experience in at least one vendor Proxy. (Forcepoint/Mcafee/Bluecoat/Zscalar/TrendMicro/ Prisma)
  • Handson experience troubleshooting and problem solving a wide variety of client IT security related issues using these technologies (Cisco FTD/Palo Alto/Checkpoint/Fortinet/Azure firewalls, IDS/IPS, VPN, proxy, Bluecoat/Forcepoint/Zscalar Web filtering).   
  • Should have good technical knowledge and hands on in cloud security solutions (AWS, Azure) like Microsoft cloud native security, PaloAlto, Zscalar.
  • Experience on firewall rules and traffic flow.
  • Experience on  clustering and high availability.
  • Manage day to day firewall operations, implementing firewall rule requests i.e. configuration changes like Port opening, fine tuning.
  • License update, Version management.
  • Experience in configuration and implementation of VPN across various vendor perimeter devices.
  • Experience in routing technologies.
  • Skilled in analysing and monitoring network security solutions.
  • Managing whitelist and blacklist traffic according to the requirements/advisories.

Preferred technical and professional experience
  • Knowledge on IPS/IDS, DDoS, Cisco ISE, VSG, NSG, LLB, GSLB are added advantage.
  • Linux Basic knowledge, Advanced preferable.
  • Basic Scripting knowledge in Python or shell scripting.
  • MS Visio.

ABOUT BUSINESS UNIT

IBM Consulting is IBM’s consulting and global professional services business, with market leading capabilities in business and technology transformation. With deep expertise in many industries, we offer strategy, experience, technology, and operations services to many of the most innovative and valuable companies in the world. Our people are focused on accelerating our clients’ businesses through the power of collaboration. We believe in the power of technology responsibly used to help people, partners and the planet.

YOUR LIFE @ IBM

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Being an IBMer means you’ll be able to learn and develop yourself and your career, you’ll be encouraged to be courageous and experiment everyday, all whilst having continuous trust and support in an environment where everyone can thrive whatever their personal or professional background.

 

Our IBMers are growth minded, always staying curious, open to feedback and learning new information and skills to constantly transform themselves and our company. They are trusted to provide on-going feedback to help other IBMers grow, as well as collaborate with colleagues keeping in mind a team focused approach to include different perspectives to drive exceptional outcomes for our customers. The courage our IBMers have to make critical decisions everyday is essential to IBM becoming the catalyst for progress, always embracing challenges with resources they have to hand, a can-do attitude and always striving for an outcome focused approach within everything that they do.

 

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ABOUT IBM

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Restlessly reinventing since 1911, we are not only one of the largest corporate organizations in the world, we’re also one of the biggest technology and consulting employers, with many of the Fortune 50 companies relying on the IBM Cloud to run their business. 

 

At IBM, we pride ourselves on being an early adopter of artificial intelligence, quantum computing and blockchain. Now it’s time for you to join us on our journey to being a responsible technology innovator and a force for good in the world.

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