Connectivity Service Owner Network Security

The opportunity:

We are seeking a highly skilled and experienced professional who will be developing and implementing new products, processes, standards or operational plans that will have impact on the achievement of functional results.

How you'll make an impact:

• Acts as Network Security Subject Matter Expert for Network Security infrastructure and related technologies.
• Maintain a clear vision for the product, ensuring it aligns with the overall business strategy and customer needs. Responsible for the product roadmap including Service Description, Service Catalog, and End-to-End responsibility for the owned product.
• Collaborates with IT suppliers regarding the operational implementation of outsourced activities consistent with existing agreements.
• Consults users to identify and learn about current procedures and to clarify further requirements. Supports the installation, management, maintenance, and optimization of all Enterprise Network processes related to the area of responsibility, including automation.
• Conveys network architecture, standards, policies, norms, and guidelines to IT Supply.
• Responsible for assessing and providing recommendations relating to trend analyses of incidents, in collaboration with relevant IT Functions.
• Performs day-to-day tasks associated with operating and maintaining networking infrastructure. Engages in major outages and works towards quicker resolution, followed by proposing long-term follow-up actions.
• Collaborates with Solution Architects, Integration Architect, and Information Security to ensure compliance with Enterprise Network solutions and services related standards.
• Responsible to ensure compliance with applicable external and internal regulations, procedures, and guidelines.
• Living Hitachi Energy's core values of safety and integrity, which means taking responsibility for your own actions while caring for your colleagues and the business.

• Bachelor's or Master's degree in engineering, information technology.
• Minimum of 10+ years of comprehensive hands-on experience in Network Security.
• Demonstrated technical expertise with Next-Gen Firewall technologies (Checkpoint, Palo Alto).
• Proficient in Secure Internet and Private Access solutions (Zscaler).
• Advanced certifications related to Palo Alto (PCNSA, PCNSE) and Zscaler (ZTCA, ZIA, ZPA) Proven experience with Zscaler Zero Trust deployment, user and application migration to Zscaler Private Access, including the design and implementation of ZTNA solutions. Competence in explaining scenarios and troubleshooting firewall functions such as Packet Flow, Captures, NAT, Routing, and ACLs).
• Programming, automation, and API experience (Python, Go, Ansible, Puppet, Docker, CI/CD with Azure Gitlab, Shell scripting) is considered an additional asset.
• Experience with ServiceNow integration.
• Proven ability to cooperate with internal and external stakeholders, along with service/vendor management skills. Possess deep analytical skills and the capability to identify connections across various layers of business operations.
• Proficiency in both spoken & written English language is required.