Senior Security Consultant

Position Summary

We are seeking a highly skilled and detail-oriented Quality Engineer for Cybersecurity Migrations to support the validation of security policy migrations across major NGFW platforms. You will analyze automated migration tool outputs, resolve post-migration issues, and ensure secure, consistent firewall configurations in customer environments. Your efforts will directly enhance customer satisfaction and operational stability.

Key Roles & Responsibilities

• Design and maintain test plans and test cases to validate automated firewall migration accuracy and completeness
• Review and verify firewall configurations migrated by automation tools to ensure expected functionality and security posture
• Identify logic gaps, configuration anomalies, and rule mismatches introduced during migration
• Collaborate with tool development teams to report defects, validate fixes, and improve transformation logic
• Troubleshoot and resolve post-migration escalations, including policy mismatches, broken traffic flows, and security issues
• Perform side-by-side comparisons of pre- and post-migration rules to verify functional equivalence
• Raise, track, and close vendor support (TAC) cases for platform-level issues
• Contribute to documentation: SOPs, test coverage reports, known issues, and validation guides
• Interface directly with customers to understand and resolve post-migration challenges

Basic Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, IT, or related field (BE / B.Tech / MCA or equivalent)
• 6+ years hands-on experience in firewall configuration, validation, and troubleshooting
• Strong knowledge of NGFW platforms: Palo Alto, Cisco FTD, FortiGate, Check Point
• Familiarity with policy and object modeling across firewall platforms
• Experience writing test plans and cases for automation tools or configuration transformation
• Strong understanding of networking/security concepts: routing, NAT, VPNs, zones, application filtering
• Excellent debugging and root cause analysis skills in post-deployment/migration scenarios
• Ability to interpret logs, packet captures, and platform diagnostics to isolate issues

Preferred Qualifications

• Certifications: PCNSA, PCNSE, NSE-1, NSE-2, NSE-3, NSE-4
• Certifications: CCNA (R&S), CCNP (R&S)
• Exposure to firewall migration automation tools
• Understanding of policy normalization and risk scoring tools (e.g., Tufin, FireMon)