Professional Services Consultant - Job at Ampcus, Inc in Santa Clara, CA

Professional Services Consultant

Santa Clara, CA

Posted 30 days ago

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Job Description

Job Title: Professional Services Consultant
Location: 100% Remote
Duration: 12 months

**Remote position - based anywhere in the US

Job Description:

The Professional Services Consultant is an integral part of our mission within our Professional Services team. As a Consultant, you will provide onsite and/or remote deployment and configuration expertise relating to PAN solutions. You will function as the product's Subject Matter Expert and will interact directly with the customer's personnel and project teams providing leadership, technical direction, interpretation, and alternatives to our best practice deployment methodology. This is a highly technical, hands-on role and you will develop and maintain expertise level skill sets on our products and solutions deployed within the customer's environment. As a Professional Services Consultant, you'll get into the details of our platform.
You will push the buttons, flip the levers, turn the knobs. You do not shy away from difficult challenges as it relates to cybersecurity, implementations, and integrations. You are the technical authority and will interact directly with our customers to help them secure their digital environments. The customers are counting on you to perform this work and train their staff. And while experience on the company's platform is desired, even more important is having a solid foundation in networking and security technologies.
In fact, extensive experience with a competitor's technology can play to your advantage. Many of the opportunities involve a client migrating to our platform for the first time, so understanding the nuances of that technology will enable you to be a better PAN consultant. And don't worry, we will send you to our Professional Services Academy to prepare you for the role, so you are experienced with our suite of services and products before you first meet the customer.

Your Impact:

Migrate customers from legacy firewall technologies to PAN platforms
Build custom security policies and application signatures, configured for our client's needs
Take every opportunity to maintain proficiency and increase the level of knowledge on PAN SASE products, software, and services
Provide after hours and weekend on-call support as needed to support maintenance activities
Analyze logs and events from the solution to perform initial troubleshooting and issue identification
Work with our Technical Assistance Center to troubleshoot and diagnose support cases
Maintain the Company's solution and provide mentorship on code upgrades and best practices
Ensure client needs are met and deliverables produced on time according to specified project deliverables and scope

Qualifications:
Must Have:

Engineer (4+ years' experience) in professional services or similar function with BS/MS in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, Computer
Engineering or a related technical field, or equivalent background
Detailed technical experience in the installation, configuration, and operation of high-end firewall appliances
Strong understanding of LAN and WAN networking protocols and technologies, including switching, routing, firewalls and security solutions
Strong TCP/IP networking skills
Strong dynamic routing skills (BGP, OSPF, etc)
Experience working with Remote Access VPN solutions, IPSEC, PKI & SSL, TCP/IP, Authentication Protocols (LDAP, RADIUS, SAML, etc.)
Experience working with URL filtering
Experience working with Proxy and SSL Decryption
Experience working with Windows and MAC OS including(debugging, editing Windows Registries, Plist, etc.)
Experience with one or more of these vendors: PAN NGFW, Cisco, Checkpoint, Juniper (Netscreen), Fortinet products, Symantec/ Blue
Coat, Zscaler
Good troubleshooting skills and ability to use tools like tcpdump & Wireshark
Good written and verbal communication skills with confirmed ability to communicate to senior leaders and technical peers
Demonstrate ability to work in a cross functional environment which involves coordination with different teams such as Sales/Pre Sales/Product Management/Engineering.
Attention to details, fast learner and excellent communication skills. Be able to communicate technical information in a simplified, easy to

Understand manner.

Project leadership experience; ability to drive organizations and resources to complete required tasks in service of end goals
Possess one of more of the following industry certifications: PCNSE, CCNA/CCNP/CCIE
Application Delivery expertise - L7 SLB / Global SLB / Traditional Link LB
Application Performance Monitoring expertise - Response time metrics, Application identification.
Packet capture analysis / fault isolation and remediation
In-depth knowledge and deployment experience of SD-WAN and Remote Access technologies.
Network Security expertise (IPS/IDS, ZBFW, NGFW)
In-depth IP Routing protocol expertise (BGP, OSPF, EIGRP)
Implementation of Legacy WAN solutions (MPLS, Leased Line, Frame Relay, Satellite, Internet VPN, ECMP, DMVPN)
Global-scale network design
Demonstrable Virtualization experience (VMware/Microsoft/Citrix/Linux KVM)
Desire to learn on your feet and thrive on the bleeding edge of networking.

Good to Have:

Experience with Prisma Access
Experience with public clouds like AWS/GCP/Azure (Check with PS Manager if this needs to be a "Must Have")
Scripting and automation development experience (Check with PS manager if this needs to be a "Must Have")

Ampcus is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identify, national origin, age, protected veterans or individuals with disabilities.

Job Summary

Company

Ampcus, Inc

Start Date

As soon as possible

Employment Term and Type

Regular, Full Time

Required Education

Bachelor's Degree

Required Experience

4+ years