[Hiring] Technical Design Authority @GTT

Role Description

In the role of Technical Design Authority (Security), you will be responsible for designing, documenting, and managing technical collateral to support agreed strategic objectives and the development of standard offerings and blueprint solutions in the security area. You will guard the overall solution architecture of customer designs and be involved in the implementation, testing, and handover to operations of these solutions. The TDA will actively participate in the presales process to allow continuity through service fulfilment.

Duties and Responsibilities:

• Design bespoke customer network security models, review and approve advanced security configuration, and be personally involved in first deployments of the solution as well as in proof of concepts.
• Engage in the pre-sales process, supporting the sales engineer with positioning the right security posture to the customer.
• Monitor industry networking security updates, technologies, and best practices to improve overall security management.
• Liaise with Partners/Vendors to fulfil agreed customer expectations.
• Produce and endorse technical standards, reference architecture, deployment guides, and technology roadmaps in close collaboration with product management.
• Create technical documentation, update standards, and guidelines.
• Support existing customer accounts and act as the subject matter expert for technical advice and consultancy on any security topic.
• Occasionally work at customer premises.
• Work within a team of highly skilled architects covering a broad range of technologies including LAN/WAN, Voice, Network & Information Security, Internet Services, and UC Services.

Qualifications

• Minimum 4 years’ experience in the network security industry.
• Develop design solutions (physical and logical) that follow engineering best practices.
• Demonstrated knowledge of Fortinet, Palo Alto security design concepts, implementation, and support.
• Experience working autonomously in a multi-vendor enterprise scale environment.
• Working knowledge of technology methodologies such as ITIL V3.
• Act as a security expert within the Managed Services Team for Service Delivery, Engineering, Operations, Product, and Project Management.
• Offensive or Defensive hacking knowledge is a plus.
• Knowledge and working experience in SASE and SSE environments and concepts.
• Multi-platform design, implementation, and support experience.
• Working experience with SD-WAN technologies (Aruba Edgeconnect, VMWare Velocloud, Forti Secure SD-WAN).
• Security Architecture and design multi-platform solutions for managed security service clients.
• Technical lead during project planning, management, and implementation of client solutions (Pilot & POC deployments).
• Creation of security posture standards for end-clients and regular review to keep them up to date.
• Demonstrable experience of turning business requirements into architectural building blocks.
• Assist in the identification and resolution of security-related issues during project deployment.
• Demonstrable awareness of the financial impact of strategic/operational decisions and the ability to identify opportunities for cost reductions.
• Experience of working on major international and global accounts.
• Capable of managing multiple projects simultaneously.

Requirements

• Standard Working Hours, Monday to Friday.
• Remote working, with some travel for team/customer meetings.

Benefits

• Commitments drive the speed and relevance required to transform our culture and deliver extraordinary value to our customers.
• Adaptive Mindset: Meet change head-on and take personal ownership of professional development.
• Collective Impact: Treat innovation as a team sport and collaborate openly to solve complex challenges.
• Customer Ownership: Own customers’ success and create smooth experiences to build trust.