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Security Specialist - Cisco Firewall Operations - R00265253 - Calgary

Accenture

Calgary, Alberta

Security Specialist - Cisco Firewall Operations - R00265253 - Calgary

Accenture

Calgary, Alberta
 
Salary: Information not available
 
County: 39
 

We Are
Accenture Security helps organizations prepare, protect, detect, respond, and recover along all points of the security lifecycle. Cybersecurity challenges are different for every business in every industry. Leveraging our global resources and advanced technologies, we create integrated, turnkey solutions tailored to our clients’ needs across their entire value chain. Whether we’re defending against known cyberattacks, detecting and responding to the unknown, or running an entire security operations center, we will help companies build cyber resilience to grow with confidence. Our team of the security sector’s brightest people use the coolest tech to out-hack the hackers and help clients build resilience from within. We blend risk strategy, digital identity, cyber defense, application security and managed service solutions to rethink the entire security lifecycle. 

You Are
Passionate about security, love what you do and have a genuine desire to outsmart the bad guys. You have the experience to analyze a clients’ security posture, anticipate security requirements and help find right-sized solutions based on industry leading practices. You have a proven track record working successfully in a fast-paced, team-oriented environment. You’re a creative, analytical problem solver with above average documentation skills who can speak to both technical and non-technical audiences. Can apply deep security skills to design, build and protect enterprise systems, applications, data, assets and people for Accenture and our clients. You are eager to put your skills to use by helping us help our clients inject security at every level of their organization.

Job Description
Infrastructure Security strengthens clients’ ability to detect, prevent, and respond to infrastructure threats (networks, clouds, endpoints, mobile, and IoT). This includes cloud security, network architecture transformation, network security controls, modern secure remote access, endpoint detection & response.

The candidate should have strong experience in security technologies including Firewalls, WAF, Web Proxy, IDS/IPS, Endpoint Security, and generate metrics related to Security, Network performance, capacity and availability.

Key responsibilities for infrastructure security consulting practitioners include:

This is an operations role responsible for managing and maintaining client’s network security operations. This includes supporting perimeter firewalls, web application firewalls, azure security, and endpoints.

Run and Operate: 
•    Deep knowledge and understanding of Azure Cloud native security services with a good to have experience of another cloud service provide (AWS or GCP)
•    Maintains policy, procedure documentations, including regular reviews and updates.
•    Automate operational tasks to make processes simpler and more robust.
•    Planning and implementing infrastructure security activities to enhance operations.
•    Implementation of native infrastructure security hardware and software with a focus on network segmentation and inspection of traffic.
•    Performing analysis of network security needs that contribute to the design, integration, and installation of hardware and software.
•    Analysis, troubleshooting and development of solutions to network / security problems.
•    Performing changes in the network following the change management process.
•    Administering perimeter security systems such as firewalls, intrusion detection systems, endpoints and web proxy.
•    Providing consultation to infrastructure and application project teams on information security designs.
•    Integration with corporate WAN, LAN and server architectures and other security programs;
•    Travel as required

We are committed to hiring military and Veteran spouses and encourage you to identify your connection with the MSEN when reaching out to us or applying to any of our open roles.

 

Have questions or want to learn more about us? We would love to hear from you!

 

Richard Murray

Email: richard.a.murray@accenture.com

 

About Accenture

Accenture is a talent and innovation-led organization helping companies to reinvent and keeping our clients ahead of change. Across more than 120 countries and 40 industries, we work as one team with a common goal: to create 360-degree value for our clients, people, shareholders, partners and communities, by embracing change.

You’ll work with top companies - clients and ecosystem partners and interact with leaders from every industry. When we bring our breadth of technological capabilities together with our ingenuity, they are greater than the sum of their parts. Help our clients reinvent. Reimagine iconic brands. Bring new products, ideas and ways of working to life with emerging technology.

We take a broad view of diversity that reflects all our people, and we are committed to ensuring everyone feels connected, with a strong sense of trust and belonging. We focus on fostering allyship, learning, inclusive ways of working, vibrant employee resource groups and networks, and accessibility, along with marking meaningful cultural observances with our people. Our networks nurture trusted relationships, mentorship opportunities and avenues for growth, benefiting participants across all career levels and fostering community and inclusion at both the global and local levels.

We take flexibility seriously — focusing not only on where but also when and how you work. We hire and develop people who have different backgrounds, different perspectives, and different lived experiences. Wherever you work, whatever skills you want to grow, there’s a program for you. We invest in our people’s capabilities so they can work with purpose, and boldly and innovatively solve problems. Continuous learning is our superpower. We put skills at the heart of everything we do. We continuously prepare our people to meet new demands and in turn, help ensure they remain highly relevant with vibrant career pathways, inside or beyond Accenture.

We encourage our people to bring their authentic selves to work and our commitment to our 750,000+ people from a variety of cultures, beliefs and backgrounds makes us more innovative. Our offices are more than just places to plug in—they're environments designed to support connection, creativity and well-being. They’re inclusive and accessible, too. We operate our business with a clean conscience – with strong commitment to the environment, ethics and human rights, responsible buying and community impact.

Join our exceptional people who are combining their ingenuity with the latest technologies to solve some of the world’s biggest challenges.