Senior Lead Consultant - Network Security

Notice Period : 30 - 60 days

Shift : BC Shift (4:00 PM - 1:00 AM IST)

Education : Full-time BE/B.Tech

Role Overview :

As a Senior Lead Consultant, you must have minimum 8 years of experience in IT infrastructure and enterprise networking, with at least 2 years in technical consulting, solution architecture, and your primary responsibility is end-to-end network solutioning, technical consulting for pre-sales and customer engagements.

Ensure alignment of solutions with business goals, operational standards, and industry best practices.

Manage high-priority technical escalations and critical customer issues. Engage with customer leadership teams on strategic infrastructure discussions to identify the gaps and improvements.

Key Responsibilities :Technical Leadership :

• Lead end-to-end network solution design and consulting engagements for customers.

• Analyze customer business and technical requirements to recommend scalable, secure, and high-performing solutions.

• Develop High-Level Designs (HLD) and Low-Level Designs (LLD).

• Ensure alignment of solutions with business goals, operational standards, and industry best practices.

• Provide guidance on network transformation, modernization, and optimization initiatives.

• Technical Consultation, POCs for internal or customer solution requirement.

• Support capability development within the networking practice.

• Provide architectural guidance across hybrid and multi-vendor environments.

• Evaluate emerging technologies and recommend suitable adoption strategies.

Customer Interaction :

• Act as the primary technical consultant and trusted advisor for customers.

• Customer engagements like workshops, discovery sessions, architecture reviews, and technical presentations.

• Engage with customer leadership teams on strategic infrastructure discussions to identify the gaps and improvements.

• Manage high-priority technical escalations and critical customer issues.

Presales & Business Enablement :

• Support pre-sales activities including Technical solutioning, RFP/RFI responses, proposal preparation, technical estimations, and solution presentations.

• Collaborate with sales and account teams to identify business opportunities.

• Assist in project scope definition and WBS preparation.

Project & Delivery Leadership :

• Provide technical leadership during implementation and migration activities.

• Work closely with project managers and cross-functional teams to ensure successful delivery.

• Review project deliverables and ensure adherence to quality standards.

• Identify project risks, dependencies, and mitigation plans.

Skills and Competencies :Must-Have :

• Hands on experience in designing, implementing, and supporting enterprise networking solutions across LAN/WAN, SD-WAN, Wireless, Data Center, and Cloud environments.

• Strong understanding of secure network architectures, including VPN, Network Access Control (NAC), Load Balancing, and hybrid connectivity.

• Proven expertise in network monitoring, troubleshooting, performance optimization, and cross-technology integration.

• Working experience managing customer, stakeholder relationships and reporting.

• Must have prior experience of onsite-offshore delivery model and should have directly worked with US/European customers and colleagues.

Preferred Vendor Experience :

• Palo Alto Networks.

• Cisco Systems.

• Juniper Networks.

• Fortinet.

• Arista Networks.

Good to Have :

• Good understanding of other infrastructure platforms like Virtualization, Monitoring, Cloud, Security.

• Relevant industry certifications such as CCNP Enterprise, PCNSE, Fortinet NSE, Azure, or AWS are preferred.

• Managing IT Infrastructure projects with global teams and remote teams will be a strong plus.

Certifications :

• ITIL, MCSE, Azure/AWS, VCP, etc.