Professional Services Consultant(1 year contract)

Responsibilities:

-    Assisting engagement specialist to scope complex Thales products’ deployment. 
-    Set up conference calls with customers to review deployment plans, pre-requisites and best practices
-    Provide onsite or remote consulting services and support to Thales customer with a focus on high quality, accuracy and customer satisfaction
-    Record project activities in the department project management application 
-    Develop and deliver technical hands-on product deep knowledge transfer to customers
-    Track and ensure successful completion of high impact projects by creating project scoping plans, design guides and relevant documentation
-    Function as technical point of contact for customer deployments and as a mentor for other team members
-    Delivery of customer engagement in the area of HSM, CipherTrust, SafeNet Trusted Access, and/or PKI
o    Design – Role, Policies and Procedures
o    Documentation and hands on deployment including hardware security modules
-    Provide training and knowledge transfer
-    Provide strong product and professional services solution presentation to difference audiences, internal and external.

Requirements:

-    B.A./B.S. degree required (preferably Computer Science, Information Services or a related field). 
-    5+ years of experience in software security consulting, customer facing as a consultant, trainer or sales engineer. 
-    2+ years of experience in Enterprise PKI Engineering
-    2+ years of encryption, key management and hardware security modules (HSM) experience
-    Experience in onsite and remote projects delivery model.
-    Knowledge of Authentication and Identity management solutions
o    Experience Two Factor Authentication Using one time passcode
o    Experience Understanding of RADIUS authentication
o    Experience of SAML Authentication- Identity Provider – Service Provider
o    Experience of traditional user directories, AD, Sun Directory, etc.
o    Experience of LDAP Configuration, deployment and consumption of services
o    Strong experience of ADFS
-    Knowledge & background in Cryptography and Security, including PKI, digital signature, encryption, certificates, HSM and cryptographic APIs (PKCS#11, OpenSSL,…)
-    Experience in Key Management Interoperability Protocol (KMIP)
-    Experience in networking principles and protocols
-    Experience in database administration (mainly Oracle, MySQL, MS SQL, DB2, and/or Informix)
-    Experience with Linux/Unix system administration. 
o    Comfortable with shell scripting, Linux file systems. 
o    Experience with SE Linux a plus.
-    Experience with Windows server administration. 
o    Comfortable with Active Directory, power shell, NTFS administration and group policy administration.
-    Experience with virtualization – VMWare, Xen, KVM and/or Docker a key skill
-    Experienced with cloud environments (AWS, Azure, VMWare)
-    Experience with firewalls and routing tables. Cisco experience a plus.
-    Understanding of the principles of both cloud technologies and on-prem application security, including public key infrastructures.
-    High energy, flexible, pro-active and excellent resistance to stress
-    Verbal and no verbal communication, listening: 
o    Ability to present solutions, rather than problems
o    Ability to express complex ideas in a manner befitting the audience.
-    Team-working
-    Negotiation: A strong “can do” attitude. Willing to accommodate and innovate to ensure customer satisfaction. 
-    Problem solving