Security Consultant

Position summary:

We are looking for a highly skilled and detail-oriented Quality Engineer Cybersecurity Migrations to support the validation of security policy migrations across major NGFW platforms. In this role, you will be responsible for analyzing the output of automated migration tools, resolving post-migration issues, and ensuring consistent, secure, and functional firewall configurations in customer environments. Your work will directly impact customer satisfaction and operational stability.

Key Roles & Responsibilities:

• Design and maintain test plans and test cases to validate the accuracy and completeness of automated firewall migration output.
• Review and verify firewall configurations migrated by automation tools to ensure they meet expected functionality and security posture.
• Identify logic gaps, configuration anomalies, or rule mismatches introduced during tool-based migrations.
• Collaborate with tool development teams to report defects, validate fixes, and improve transformation logic.
• Troubleshoot and resolve post-migration escalations, including policy behaviour mismatches, broken traffic flows, and unexpected security outcomes.
• Perform side-by-side comparisons of pre- and post-migration rules to verify functional equivalence.
• Raise, track, and close vendor support (TAC) cases where deep platform-level issues are involved.
• Contribute to documentation including SOPs, test coverage reports, known issues, and configuration validation guides.
• Interface directly with customers to understand post-migration challenges and ensure successful resolution.

Basic Qualifications:

• Bachelor s degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, or a related field (BE / B.Tech / MCA or equivalent).
• 3 to 8 years of hands-on experience in firewall configuration, validation, and troubleshooting.
• Strong technical knowledge of NGFW platforms including Palo Alto, Cisco FTD, FortiGate, and Check Point.
• Familiarity with policy and object modelling across different firewall platforms.
• Experience in writing test cases and test plans for automation tools or configuration transformation logic.
• Strong understanding of networking and security concepts, including routing, NAT, VPNs, zones, and application filtering.
• Excellent debugging and root cause analysis skills in post-deployment/migration environments.
• Ability to interpret logs, packet captures, and platform-specific diagnostics to isolate issues.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Certification: PCNSA, PCNSE, NSE-1, NSE-2, NSE-3, NSE-4
• Certification: CCNA (R&S) / CCNP (R&S)
• Exposure to firewall migration automation tools
• Understanding policy normalization and risk scoring tools (e.g., Tufin, FireMon)