Cyber Security/Network Security Solution Architect

Job Description

• Eexperience range: 12+ years; location: Gurgaon.
• Key technologies identified for sourcing:
• Cisco, Palo Alto, Fortinet
• Splunk, Microsoft Sentinel, IBM QRadar
• Ansible, Terraform, Python (good to have)
• AWS/Azure
• Focus should be on candidates with designing, architecture, HLD, implementation, and end-to-end project delivery experience rather than support roles.
• Candidates should have exposure to multiple OEMs, Greenfield/Brownfield projects, team leadership, UAT, and RFP/RFI handling.
• Preferred certifications: CCNP, CCIE, CISSP, and equivalent Palo Alto/Fortinet certifications. Scrum/PMP certifications are good to have.

Key Responsibilities

•            Lead presales engagements - RFP/RFI response, security solution architecture, effort estimation and commercial shaping - and present win themes to customer and internal executive-level stakeholders.

•            Own end-to-end security solution design across network security, identity and access management, SOC/SIEM, cloud security and zero trust.

•            Architect greenfield security stacks aligned to NIST CSF, ISO 27001 and Zero Trust Architecture, including vendor and tooling selection and reference architecture creation.

•            Define the roadmap toward autonomous security operations - SOAR-driven closed-loop response, threat-intel-led automation and continuous compliance monitoring.

•            Lead large-scale brownfield network and security modernization and legacy-to-target migrations with minimal business disruption across multi-vendor networks.

•            Own security risk assessments, vulnerability management strategy and remediation roadmaps across on-prem, cloud and hybrid estates.

•            Own delivery governance for multi-year, multi-workstream security transformation programs - scope, schedule, risk, quality and financials.

•            Act as single technical point of accountability across design, build, test and operate phases, coordinating L1/L2/L3 security operations teams.

•            Establish and track program KPIs/SLAs, steering committee reporting and executive dashboards.

•            Mentor solution/delivery leads and build reusable accelerators, frameworks and playbooks across engagements.

Primary Skills

• Key technologies identified for sourcing:
• Cisco, Palo Alto, Fortinet
• Splunk, Microsoft Sentinel, IBM QRadar
• Ansible, Terraform, Python (good to have)
• AWS/Azure
• Focus should be on candidates with designing, architecture, HLD, implementation, and end-to-end project delivery experience rather than support roles.
• Candidates should have exposure to multiple OEMs, Greenfield/Brownfield projects, team leadership, UAT, and RFP/RFI handling.
• Preferred certifications: CCNP, CCIE, CISSP, and equivalent Palo Alto/Fortinet certifications. Scrum/PMP certifications are good to have.

Technical Skills & Tools