Sr. Consultant - SASE | Remote, USA

This position will be fully remote and can be hired anywhere in the US.

Our consultants are skilled technical and consultative resources expected to be strong in both technical and soft skills. A Consultant must have the ability to problem-solve, communicate, participate in diverse project teams from a technical perspective, and interface effectively with customers, vendor partners, and colleagues. Establish & maintain productive and respectful relationships with the delivery team, practice management, and client management team. For this position we are seeking specialists who have recent experience with one or more Security Service Edge (SSE) technologies that include Netskope and/or Zscaler.

How you will make an impact:

• You will actively contribute to improving operational efficiency on projects and internal initiatives. Deliver timely engagements and works closely with Practice leaders to drive training and education, career development, performance development, and collaboration across the team
• In line with Optiv’s commitment to quality, you will confirm that work is of the highest quality as per Optiv’s quality standards, by reviewing the work provided by other members.
• Able to solo deliver or act as "point" for complex technology implementation projects
• Acts as a technical escalation point to assist other consultants.
• Lead in capacity planning and HW specification recommendation efforts.
• Lead in all Technology deployment activities, connector configuration, custom rule development, workflow configuration and development, and third-party system integration.
• Understand the customer requirements and deliverables and create a comprehensive Statement of Work (SOW)
• Assist customers with developing technical requirements, evaluating SSE solutions, and developing architecture & design.
• Understand System integration with SSO/IAM, EDR, SIEM, SOAR, MDM.
• Create evaluation test plans and implement DLP solutions
• Working closely with customers and their Technical Team
• User Acceptance Testing and bug-related engineering efforts.
• Design, implement and educate on specific technology build processes, policy migration, and third-party integration.
• Provide knowledge transfer and post-production support activities as necessary.
• Effective team communicator.
• Maintain professional and technical knowledge by attending educational workshops; reviewing professional publications; establishing personal networks; participating in professional associations such as CSA.
• Obtain and maintain top tier vendor certification. (Netskope Certified Cloud Security Administrator, Netskope Certified Cloud Security Integrator, Netskope Certified Cloud Security Architect, Zscaler ZIA Professional, Zscaler ZPA Professional, and Zscaler ZDX administrator).
• Complete administrative project tasks like time and expense entry, status reporting, and project completion reporting.
• Acts as contributor in Optiv communities for solutions of focus

Qualifications for success:

• Ideal candidates will have recent prior experience implementing …