Lead Network Security Consultant/ Lead Consultant Specialist

Job Description

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If you’re looking for a career that will help you stand out, join HSBC and fulfil your potential. Whether you want a career that could take you to the top, or simply take you in an exciting new direction, HSBC offers opportunities, support and rewards that will take you further.

HSBC is one of the largest banking and financial services organisations in the world, with operations in 64 countries and territories. We aim to be where the growth is, enabling businesses to thrive and economies to prosper, and, ultimately, helping people to fulfil their hopes and realise their ambitions.

We are currently seeking an experienced professional to join our team in the role of Lead Consultant Specialist

In this role, you will:

• Design and Implement Network segmentation technology for On-prem and cloud (AWS, Azure, GCP) environment.
• Design and provision network security policies with required zero trust principles.
• Coordinates activities with other system areas and vendors, and deals with network security systems planning, upgrading, monitoring, testing, and servicing.
• Troubleshoot complex network environments and providing detailed analysis and remediations.
• Document High-level and Low-level network designs and procedures.
• Run product evaluation and proof of concepts on emerging network technologies.
• Work with product owners to manage the product backlog, ensure it is well defined, prioritized and aligned to team’s objective.
• Facilitate scrum ceremonies, lead daily standups, sprint planning, Sprint reviews and retrospectives. Ensures meetings are efficient, productive, and focused on project goals.
• Maintain accurate and up to date documentation related to project planning, execution, and delivery.
• Assist Cyber network engineering team in removing impediments, enhancing workflows, and improving their practices to deliver high quality network solutions.
• Mentor team on agile principles and practices, promote continuous improvement and self-organization within the team. Besides ensure transparency and accountability within a team.
• Communicate updates and reports to stakeholders and senior management.
• Build and maintain KPI’s for the team and the engineering products.
• Drive incident resolution - technology or process, across technology teams, stakeholders and management where required.
• Liaison with vendor on product issues including design, features, and defects.
• Implement network solutions aligned to organizational standard and meet regulatory requirements.
• Provides knowledge transfer with teammates through formal team training sessions, brown bags, and mentoring of other team members.
• Apply technical expertise in implementing efficiencies and creating strategies to better detect and respond to cyber incidents by prioritizing mitigation actions
  
  

Requirements

To be successful in this role, you should meet the following requirements:

• Candidate with 12+ years of experience in design and implementation of zero trust architectures, preferably Network segmentation of infrastructure and microservices.
• Proficiency in cloud architecture design patterns, serverless computing, containerization (Kubernetes, Docker), and microservices architecture is a MUST.
• Familiarity with major cloud service providers like Amazon Web Services (AWS), Microsoft Azure, Google Cloud Platform (GCP), and their networking services. Understanding of virtual networks, load balancers, VPN gateways, and network security groups specific to cloud environments
• Strong hands-on experience of network technologies (Network load balancers, perimeter security, cryptography, PKI, digital certificates/signatures, hashing/ciphers, IPsec, wireless technologies, URL filtering, etc.)
• Knowledge of script development for Network automation tasks (e.g., Python, Ansible)
• Experience with a variety of security technologies and concepts (Network load balancers, perimeter security, cryptography, PKI, digital certificates/signatures, hashing/ciphers, IPsec, wireless technologies, URL filtering, etc.)
• Have associate/professional level certification on major cloud technologies.
• CISSP certification will be preferred, but not mandatory.
• Experience with modern agile software delivery practices such as scrum, version control, continuous integration, and delivery (CI/CD), DevOps
• Excellent network troubleshooting skills. Must be able to quickly identify and resolve network related issues in smallest possible time.
• Knowledge and experience in Agile and DevOps development practices
• Demonstrate leadership abilities with track record of successfully managing and motivating teams.
• Proven and extensive experience of service management & application production support with knowledge of service recovery, incident, and problem management
• Excellent communication skills.
• Ability to work in fast paced environment with and changing priorities.
• Able to support aggressive delivery timelines without compromising on quality.
  
  

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Issued by – HSBC Software Development India