Consultant, Network

The Network and Security Consultant takes part in the development, sales and delivery of Network and Security solutions for Rockwell Automation customers. The primary focus includes sales support, consulting, assessing current state, developing remediation plans, implementing solutions, and providing long term maintenance of a customer's manufacturing infrastructure.
**The role**:
- Lead the NSS team on CSM to meet our goals and give the proper service to all our customers, sales force, and distributors.
- Be accountable for the financial results, deadline status, quality and customer satisfaction related to the projects and consulting under his responsibility, monitoring each step of the project execution to optimize and verify improvement opportunities.
- Interact with the customer to detect and inform Sales area about new supply opportunities.
- Perform a pre-analysis of the global proposal together with the Sales Team for posterior submission to Authorization Committee, as well to defend technically the representation of the proposal to the customer.
- Interact with the customer and other areas of the company, aiming at clarifying technical doubts related to the project. Detail technical scope; perform schedule change, hardware and software modifications, among others.
- Conduct critical analysis of the project/contract together with the technical team, evaluating all conclusion steps and suggesting improvements to be developed and implemented.
- Review project costs and progress, analyzing and comparing them to the initial forecast, and provide corrections or alternatives to compensate for losses or changes.
- Work with Application Engineers in order to get the project engineering according with customer Specification, submitting and review it for customer approval.
- Monitor start-up, verifying the occurrence of any problem and solving it to assure hardware and Network integration.
- Foster and lead Process Improvement Groups, developing structured team work to promote continuous identification, evaluation, questioning and proposition of internal process improvement.
- Meet and perform other professional activities related and inherent to the job as per guideline and request of the immediate superior.
**Requirements**:
- Have an engineering degree on the following carriers: Electrical, Electronic, Industrial, Electromechanical, Robotics, Computer Systems, Software Engineering, etc.
- 'Hands-on' experience in assessing, designing, and deploying network infrastructure in environments including process automation, discrete controls, and automated manufacturing processes/equipment.
- Experience in designing and deploying network infrastructure (switches, routers, firewalls, etc.) within an Industrial Network.
- Understanding of various industry standards including ISA, ANSI, NEMA, NERC, IDC, NEC and NIST standards.
- Experience in PLC, Networking and SCADA design/programming including data extraction and data analysis.
- Solid technical skills with various Ethernet protocols including EtherNet/IP, specifically around assessment, design and implementation of complex systems.
- Ability to stand up and configure firewalls from various vendors including the latest Cisco FirePower platforms.
- Familiarity with a variety of networking and/or security concepts, practices, and procedures.
- Experience in developing and deploying solutions in a virtual environment.
- Knowledge of Rockwell Automation Products.
- Knowledge in Visio and CAD Tools.
- 2 years of commercial experience.
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