- Acts as 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.

- Lead User Acceptance Testing and bug-related engineering efforts.

- Design, implement and educate on specific technology build processes, code migration, and source control use.

- 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 ISSA.

- Obtain and maintain top tier vendor certification.

- 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.

What Were Looking For :

- Bachelor's degree and approximately 5-7 years of related work experience.

- Approximately 4-7 years of technical architecture experience.

- Desirable experience within one or more of the following Security Architecture and/or Enterprise Architectural Frameworks (e.g SABSA, TOGAF, O-ESA).

- Knowledge of general security concepts and methods such as vulnerability assessments, data classification, privacy assessments, incident response, security policy creation, enterprise security strategies, architectures and governance.

- Strong understanding of networking (TCP/IP, OSI model), operating system fundamentals (Windows, UNIX, mainframe), security technologies (firewalls, IDS/IPS, etc.) and application programming/scripting languages (C, Java, Perl, Shell).

- Strong understanding of regulatory requirements and compliance issues affecting clients related to privacy and data protection, such as PCI DSS, GLBA, Basel II, EU Data Protection Directive, International Cross Border, and U.State Data Privacy Laws.

- Working knowledge of operating systems, virtual machine environments, mainframe security packages, and relational database management systems.

- Expert knowledge of using Microsoft Office.

- Ability to build relationships with and influence other functional areas.

- Well-developed negotiation skills.

- Ability to build consensus.

- Ability to manage multiple tasks in parallel.

- The successful candidate must hold related professional certifications such as the CISSP, CISM, and/or CISA.

What You Can Expect From Optiv :

- A company committed to championing Diversity, Equality, and Inclusion through our Employee Resource Groups.

- Work/life balance.

- Professional training resources.

- Creative problem-solving and the ability to tackle unique, complex projects.

- Volunteer Opportunities.

- Optiv Chips In encourages employees to volunteer and engage with their teams and communities.

- The ability and technology necessary to productively work remotely/from home (where applicable).