Our consultants are skilled technical and consultative resources expected to be strong in both technical and soft skills. A Consultant must be a proven self-starter with 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.

How You'll Make an Impact

• Participate and occasionally lead in capacity planning and HW specification recommendation efforts.
• Participate in all Technology deployment activities, connector configuration, custom rule development, workflow configuration and development, and third-party system integration.
• Participate in User Acceptance Testing and bug-related engineering efforts and occasionally leads the efforts.
• Design and implement on specific technology build processes, code migration, and source control use of both small and large projects.
• Successfully provide knowledge transfer and postproduction support activities as necessary.
• Effective team communicator.
• Mentors less experienced consultants
• 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.

• Bachelor's degree and approximately 2-5 years of related work experience.
• Approximately 2-5 years of technical architecture experience
• Expertise with one or more of our core Technologies.
• Thorough understanding of large scale environments
• Strong presentation and verbal communication skills
• Process-oriented individual with strong attention to detail, and strong organizational skills
• Excellent, detailed writing skills
• Expert knowledge of using Microsoft Office (Microsoft Excel)
• Ability to build relationships with and influence other functional areas
• Well-developed negotiation skills.
• Basic understanding of Services organization and key areas of focus.
• Ability to build consensus.
• Ability to manage multiple tasks in parallel.
• Valid driver's license in the US
• The successful candidate must hold or be willing to pursue related professional certifications such as the CISSP, CISM, and/or CISA.
• F5 specific certifications highly preferred (F5-CSE)
• Excellent knowledge and prior experience with security application delivery technologies.
• Scripting Language preferred (Perl/Python/Java/Bash)
• 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,), security technologies (firewalls, IDS/IPS, etc.), access management (SAML, SSO), and application programming/scripting languages (C, Java, Perl, Shell)
• 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.S. State Data Privacy Laws

• 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)