Consultant, Network

Job Description
**SUMMARY/SCOPE OF POSITION**:

- Our Networks Consultant role encompasses the lead technical advisor responsibilities for interfacing with our valued clients on large scale, multi-site global projects to develop and deploy robust network solutions. The Networks Consultant will interact directly with key internal and external contacts on the deployment and rollout of network infrastructure and security related efforts. These projects will be specific to enabling a Connected Enterprise by connecting the Industrial Internet of Things at our key global customer facilities._

The Network Consultant roles and responsibility are:

- ‘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. Specific focus on NIST 800-82, NERC-CIP, IEC-62443 Standards would be an added benefit
- 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.
- Strong communication skills and commercial skills, ability to handle multiple projects / interactions, and ability to interact with various global teams, clients and vendors including those in international regions.
- Ability to stand up and configure firewalls from various vendors including the latest Cisco FirePower platforms
- Experience in developing and deploying solutions in a virtual environment.
- Design, implement and support key global customers’ converged business and manufacturing/industrial networks and user needs in parallel with their overall business strategies.
- Write detailed documentation that could include customer requirements, system specifications, observed issues with remediation recommendations or implementation plans in order to develop or modify manufacturing infrastructure.
- Design, recommend, and implement network infrastructure and associated configuration changes.
- Design customer secure manufacturing architectures and provide vision, problem anticipation, and problem solving ability to customers.

The Network and Security Consultant take part in the development, sales and delivery of Network and Security solutions for Rockwell Automation customers. The primary focus include sales support, consulting, assessing current state, developing remediation plans, implementing solutions, and providing long term maintenance of a customer’s manufacturing infrastructure.

Consulting performed within the national territory to accelerate Rockwell Automation’s growth in products, solutions, and services. The consulting practices generate rapid growth and also support growth of remediation activities performed by other technical department from our business areas, and partners.
**ESSENTIAL FUNCTIONS**:
The primary focus for the Consultant Network and Security Services:

- 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.
- Tighten continually his relationship with the customer, demonstrating interest and seeking more information on other processes and difficulties. Make available his complete professional experience with the aim of collaborating actively to the customer success.
- Interact with the customer to detect and inform Sales area about new supply opportunities.
- Understand customer need to create proper strategies with Sales team.
- Participate in all the stages of network solutions, from Assess, Design/plan, implement, audit and manage/monitor.
- 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.
- Evaluate the required resources for the project execution, verifying labor availability and the need to subcontract outsourced personnel as well as to control the material to be used, detailing material technical specification for purchase purposes.
- Kick off meeting coordination activities of the team as well as acting as the interface among the team, customer and other areas of the company.
- Elaborate the project/contract schedule, establishing deadlines to conclude each step and define team and controlling hours spent in each project.
- Interact with the customer and other areas