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SECURITYFOCUS JOBS - NEW OPPORTUNITY
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JOB DESCRIPTION
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Position: Security Architect
Location: Chicago, Illinois, United States
Type: Permanent F/T
Closing Date: 2008-03-31
Solutions Architect
Virtual Office - Nationwide
Summary
Our company is seeking a talented Solutions Architect with ten year's plus
experience to work as a trusted advisor to our customers. Responsibilities
include ensuring the technical success of our clients by leveraging full value
of our product. This will be a virtual office position and candidates should
be located within 1 hour of a major metropolitan airport.
Qualifications
Determine requirements for Clients by:
Gathering requirements from staff engaged early in the sales cycle
Developing and leveraging security and technical best practices
Facilitate working sessions with clients:
Meet with key staff to determine requirements via interviews
Conduct working sessions at client sites to determine requirements
Use security and technical expertise to suggest solutions
Design Solutions based on the following:
Client's business, regulatory and security requirements
Client's environment - taking into account the number and types of security
devices and the expected data volumes from each device type
Ensure Successful Engagements/Implementations:
Provide engagement manager with information to scope the size of engagements
Work with engagement manager on resources and scheduling for engagements
Provide information to engagement manager to develop statements of work
Work with technical support and engineering to resolve issues during engagement
As senior technical team member, direct assigned resources to ensure design is
understood
Perform "pre-staging" when necessary prior to on site deployment
Travel on site as necessary with staff to ensure successful implementation
Develop/Continually improve methodology and processes:
Continually provide input to best practices based on experiences during
engagements
Continually contribute to knowledge base; including reusable solutions for use
on future engagements
Provide product feedback and solutions for inclusion in future product releases
Mentor other consultants:
Develop staff and sub-contractors to be a Senior Consultant
Provide knowledge transfer of best practices and methodology
Implement Solutions:
Implement pre or post sales solutions either as a team lead or alone on
engagements or where other resources are unavailable or not specifically
skilled to meet the implementation requirements.
JOB REQUIREMENTS
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Senior Level Technical Skills:
Platform - Linux, Solaris, Windows
Coding skills - Regex, Scripting Languages, (Other major languages such as C,
Assembler, Java)
Experience with reporting design and query tools - Jreports preferred
Experience working with databases and data warehousing - - DBMS preferred is
MySQL or Oracle
Hands on experience installing, using and maintaining security devices and
software - Firewalls, HIDS, NIDS, IPS, Vulnerability scanners, Anti-Virus
Operating System Hardening Processes - Linux preferred
Travel: 50-60% - Most travel should be in North America, but may be worldwide.
CONTACT
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Jonathan Doran
212-785-0236
jon@jpatrick.com
J. Patrick & Associates
Jonathan Doran
Account Manager
jon@jpatrick.com
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