Senior Resident Consultant - Federal
Washington, DC, United States
Zscaler
Zscaler is the leader in cybersecurity and zero trust digital transformation. Transform your IT and security needs with the best CASB and SASE solutions.Company Description
Zscaler (NASDAQ: ZS) accelerates digital transformation so that customers can be more agile, efficient, resilient, and secure. The Zscaler Zero Trust Exchange is the company’s cloud-native platform that protects thousands of customers from cyberattacks and data loss by securely connecting users, devices, and applications in any location.
With more than 10 years of experience developing, operating, and scaling the cloud, Zscaler serves thousands of enterprise customers around the world, including 450 of the Forbes Global 2000 organizations. In addition to protecting customers from damaging threats, such as ransomware and data exfiltration, it helps them slash costs, reduce complexity, and improve the user experience by eliminating stacks of latency-creating gateway appliances.
Zscaler was founded in 2007 with a mission to make the cloud a safe place to do business and a more enjoyable experience for enterprise users. Zscaler’s purpose-built security platform puts a company’s defenses and controls where the connections occur—the internet—so that every connection is fast and secure, no matter how or where users connect or where their applications and workloads reside.
Job Description
As a Zscaler Resident Consultant, you'll play a critical role in helping customers properly deploy, configure, and operationalize their Zscaler solution throughout the lifecycle of the assigned engagement (usually a minimum of 12 months). Zscaler Resident Consultants are experts in their field and are expected to integrate with the customer’s team(s) in order to ensure Zscaler’s solutions are properly designed, configured, and resilient, and that overall best practices are followed.
This opportunity is for a Remote Resident Consultant position and the candidate will perform the majority of their work remotely, although travel to a customer’s site may be required on an as-needed basis.
A typical day could look like this:
- Collaborate with and assist the larger Zscaler Professional Services team to ensure the continued success of your fellow team members, Zscaler, and our customers.
- Integrate with the Customer’s cyber security/network security team(s) to assist in integrating Zscaler solutions into the customer’s environment by providing configuration guidance, recommendations, best practices, etc.
- Assist customers with testing and troubleshooting. Escalate to Zscaler Support, Engineering, and/or Cloud Operations as required.
- Provide regular status reports for critical incidents, projects, and proactive services to both the Customer and Zscaler-internal teams.
- Respond rapidly to unplanned events, including after-hours for Severity 1 issues. This includes a willingness to work out of normal business hours without prior notice (upon customer demand).
- On an as-needed/pre-approved basis, travel to customer location(s) to assist with short-term customer objectives.
Qualifications
- Be able to pass customer-required drug screening and/or background checks.
- Meet customer COVID vaccination requirements or qualify for a reasonable accommodation (as defined by the customer).
- 6+ years of prior work experience in similar positions (e.g. Solutions Architect, Systems Engineer, Professional Services Consultant, or Support Engineer).
- Strong understanding of how to navigate technical and architectural discussions.
- Ability to express complex concepts in plain language to reach broader audiences.
- Excellent communication and follow-up skills across internal and external organizations.
- Familiarity with IPSEC, GRE, HTTP/HTTPS, and DNS protocols.
- Familiarity with Proxy, SSL, and SSL Inspection (e.g. Break & Inspect).
- Versatile with using various operating systems including Windows, Mac, and/or GNU/Linux.
- Hands-on knowledge with network troubleshooting using tools such as Wireshark, tcpdump, Traceroute, and MTR.
- Experience working within or directly with the US Federal Government preferred.
Preferred Skills:
- Professional experience/familiarity operating solutions built on: Azure, AWS, and GCP.
- Experience with Hypervisors (in order of preference): VMware, Hyper-V, and KVM.
- Working knowledge of authentication systems such as SAML, LDAP, and MS Active Directory.
- Industry certifications such as CCNP, JNCIP, PCNSA (or Higher), CISSP, or CCSP.
Additional Information
All your information will be kept confidential according to EEO guidelines.
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What You Can Expect From Us:
- An environment where you will be working on cutting edge technologies and architectures
- A fun, passionate and collaborative workplace
- Competitive salary and benefits, including equity
Why Zscaler?
People who excel at Zscaler are smart, motivated and share our values. Ask yourself: Do you want to team with the best talent in the industry? Do you want to work on disruptive technology? Do you thrive in a fluid work environment? Do you appreciate a company culture that enables individual and group success and celebrates achievement? If you said yes, we’d love to talk to you about joining our award-winning team.
Additional information about Zscaler (NASDAQ: ZS ) is available at https://www.zscaler.com.
Zscaler is an equal opportunity employer. We celebrate diversity and are committed to creating an inclusive environment for all employees.
Tags: Active Directory Agile AWS Azure CCNP CCSP CISSP Cloud DNS GCP Hyper-V KVM LDAP Linux Network security SAML VMware Windows
Perks/benefits: Competitive pay Equity Team events
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