The Technical Manager for Network and Edge Security is a senior technical leader responsible for driving the success of client engagements, acting as a trusted advisor, and overseeing delivery excellence. This role balances deep technical expertise with engagement management, customer relationship leadership, team development, and pre-sales thought leadership. The Technical Manager owns the technical outcomes for customers, leads large and complex projects, and elevates both client maturity and the consulting team’s capabilities.

This individual is the go-to technical expert in their domain, providing oversight on multiple concurrent projects, contributing to pre-sales and solution design, collaborating with business leaders to develop marketable service offerings, and guiding clients in translating security requirements into operational outcomes.

How You’ll Make an Impact:

• Act as the senior technical leader on consulting engagements, ensuring technical excellence and delivery quality.

• Translate client business goals and security requirements into actionable technical strategies, architectures, and roadmaps.

• Lead complex problem-solving, troubleshooting, and architecture design for network and edge security programs and related security technologies.

• Provide oversight on 2-10 concurrent engagements, ensuring both technical and business outcomes are met.

• Deliver technical and business oversight to projects, including proactive management of project risks, quality, and client satisfaction.

• Provide thought leadership through participation in industry groups, delivering talks, writing technical and industry-specific blogs, vulnerability research, industry PR interviews, and/or contributing to security publications.

• Collaborate as a technical expert with Practice Managers, Marketing, and Sales support organizations to develop new go-to-market solutions.

• Lead client workshops, assessments, and executive briefings, often in front of both technical and non-technical stakeholders.

• Drive continuous improvement of consulting methodologies, tools, processes, and deliverables to improve efficiency and quality.

• Mentor, coach, and formally develop junior consultants and senior consultants, directly influencing their career growth. (No Direct Reports)

• Maintain a pulse on the network and edge security technology ecosystem, continuously tracking market trends, emerging threats, and evolving best practices.

What We’re Looking For:

• 7+ years of experience in network and edge security

• 5+ years of experience in consulting

• Deep experience with Cisco’s security technologies. Additional experience with Palo, Fortinet, Netskope, or Zscaler is preferred.

• Experience and comfort with picking up new technologies as aligned to market demand.

• Proven ability to lead complex technical projects with both hands-on and oversight responsibilities.

• Strong background in network security architecture, engineering, and administration across multiple technology domains such as NAC, Firewall, Route/Switch, SASE, and Identity.

• Prior experience in consulting engagement oversight, including managing project health, quality, and client outcomes.

• Ability to clearly articulate technical concepts and business value to executive, technical, and operational stakeholders.

• Proven experience in a pre-sales, post-sales, or non-sales technical capacity in an information security environment.

• Strong written, verbal, and presentation communication skills, including experience leading workshops and executive briefings.

• Demonstrated thought leadership through content creation, public speaking, or community contributions preferred.

• Desire and capability to mentor others, raise team capability, and lead by example.

• Comfort operating in ambiguity, balancing multiple projects, and prioritizing effectively.

• Currently holds and maintains a CCIE Security and at least one other Tier 2 or Tier 3 certification in the network and edge security domain (CCNP/CCIE equivalents)

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Salary Range Description

The Hiring Range provided for this role is informed by (but not limited to) various factors including responsibilities of the position, work experience, education/training, internal peer equity, geography, as well as other market influences when extending an offer. The disclosed range has not been adjusted for these factors. This role may also be eligible to participate in a variable incentive-based bonus plan. Optiv offers a comprehensive compensation and benefits package, of which salary is a component.

Job Application Window

This position accepts applicants for a minimum of 4 business days after the job posting date and will remain available until an applicant has been selected for the position.

What you can expect from Optiv

• A company committed to championing Diversity, Equality, and Inclusion through our Employee Resource Groups.
• Work/life balance
• Professional training resources
• Creative problem-solving and the ability to tackle unique, complex projects
• Volunteer Opportunities. “Optiv Chips In” encourages employees to volunteer and engage with their teams and communities.
• The ability and technology necessary to productively work remotely/from home (where applicable)

EEO Statement

Optiv is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants for employment will be considered without regard to race, color, religion, sex, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, pregnancy, age 40 and over, marital status, genetic information, national origin, status as an individual with a disability, military or veteran status, or any other basis protected by federal, state, or local law.

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