About the role

What will you do at AHEAD?

AHEAD builds platforms for digital business. By weaving together advances in cloud infrastructure, automation and analytics, and software delivery, we help enterprises deliver on the promise of digital transformation. At AHEAD, we prioritize creating a culture of belonging, where all perspectives and voices are represented, valued, respected, and heard.

We create spaces to empower everyone to speak up, make change, and drive the culture at AHEAD. We are an equal opportunity employer, and do not discriminate based on an individual's race, national origin, color, gender, gender identity, gender expression, sexual orientation, religion, age, disability, marital status, or any other protected characteristic under applicable law, whether actual or perceived.

We embrace all candidates that will contribute to the diversification and enrichment of ideas and perspectives at AHEAD.

We are seeking a Principal Technical Consultant to serve as the senior technical leader for network security engagements across four core pillars: next-generation firewall design and deployment (Palo Alto Networks, Cisco Secure Firewall, Fortinet), Cisco ISE-based network access control and identity services, load balancing and application delivery (F5 BIG-IP, including web application firewall and global server load balancing), and SASE and Zero Trust architectures (Zscaler, Palo Alto Prisma Access).

Principal Technical Consultants design, deploy, and troubleshoot highly complex environments spanning multiple networking and security domains. They lead large, multi-technology projects, guide cross-functional delivery teams, and act as trusted advisors to client technical staff and executive leadership.

This role owns end-to-end delivery from discovery and architecture through implementation, testing, cutover, and knowledge transfer, while also mentoring engineers across the organization, supporting sales campaigns as a subject matter expert, and building the reusable assets and industry content that advance the practice.

Which skills does this role require?

network securityfirewall designCisco ISEload balancingZero Trust architecturesmentoring

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