Senior Consultant, Network Security

About Compugen Compugen is Canada's largest privately-owned Technology Ally. To innovate industries, transform businesses, connect communities, and drive meaningful change, we must think bigger, reach broader, and act bolder. Through knowledge, curiosity, and collaboration, Compugen helps organizations delivering experience by design. This is what it means to be human-centered and technology-enabled. Dreaming, designing, and delivering isn't just a mantra for us — it's a way of life. We believe that technology is the conduit, but our people – they are the connection that truly makes the magic happen! Our Culture We are a human-centered culture where we prioritize your well-being and are invested in helping you reach your fullest potential. We're not only focused on achieving our goals — we're dedicated to helping you achieve yours. If you're relentlessly curious, driven to make a difference, and collaborative at the core, then you belong with us. Position Overview: The Networking & Security team is looking for a Senior Network Consultant to provide subject matter expertise in enterprise networking solutions for our customers, with a strong focus on Cisco, HPE Aruba and Juniper environments. As a successful candidate, you will join a Professional Services organization delivering enterprise-level solutions with a focus on customer satisfaction, project timelines, and high-quality technical deliverables. This is a billable, client-facing role that works closely with Compugen’s Advanced Solutions group and sales teams, providing technical consulting, architecture, implementation, migration, and lifecycle guidance for customer environments. The role reports to the Managing Principal Consultant, Enterprise Network and Security, Key Responsibilities:

• Deliver customer projects from discovery and design through implementation, migration, validation, and handoff.
• Lead and deliver enterprise networking solutions with a strong focus on HPE Aruba and Juniper platforms.
• Design, implement, and support campus, branch, wireless, and data center network solutions for Compugen customers.
• Deliver Aruba-based switching, wireless, and network access solutions across enterprise customer environments.
• Design and implement Juniper-based routing, switching, and enterprise networking solutions where required.
• Support Cisco data center and advanced networking initiatives, including Cisco ACI environments.
• Contribute to network security projects where networking and security architectures intersect, including segmentation, access control, policy enforcement, and zero trust design.
• Produce high-quality design documentation, implementation plans, test plans, migration plans, and as-built deliverables.
• Participate in customer workshops, technical discovery sessions, architecture reviews, and solution recommendations.
• Work with internal sales and Advanced Solutions teams to support technical scoping, assessments, and pre-sales validation.
• Provide customer-facing technical leadership while maintaining strong communication, professionalism, and delivery discipline.

Skills & Qualifications:

• College or University education, or equivalent work experience.
• 10+ years of IT experience, with a strong emphasis on enterprise networking.
• 8+ years of hands-on experience with routing and switching technologies in enterprise customer environments.
• 5+ years of experience designing, implementing, and supporting HPE Aruba networking solutions.
• 5+ years of experience with Aruba switching, wireless, and campus network deployments.
• 5+ years of experience with Juniper enterprise networking technologies, including routing and switching.
• Strong experience designing and implementing enterprise network solutions across multi-site or large-scale customer environments.
• Experience with secure network architecture principles, including segmentation, access control, and resilient enterprise design.
• Strong customer-facing skills, including verbal, written, presentation, listening, and time management skills.
• Demonstrated ability to manage technical deliverables across multiple concurrent projects.
• Proven ability to work independently in client-facing consulting and delivery engagements.
• Current Cisco CCNP or CCIE certification, in good standing, is required.

Other Qualifications:

• Strong experience with Cisco ACI, with this considered a major asset and potentially a required skill depending on team needs.
• Experience with Cisco routing and switching in enterprise or data center environments.
• Experience with Aruba ClearPass or similar network access control / policy platforms.
• Experience with wireless design, campus modernization, and branch transformation.
• Experience with SD-WAN, data center networking, or multi-site enterprise transformation initiatives.
• Experience contributing to projects involving network security, segmentation, policy, identity, or zero trust access concepts.
• Network automation skills are a strong plus, including Ansible, Terraform, Python, or API-driven operations.
• Experience with structured project delivery methodologies and enterprise change control practices.
• Current certifications from HPE Aruba, Juniper, Fortinet, Arista, Meraki, or other relevant enterprise networking and security vendors are considered a major asset.
• Excellent written communication and presentation skills.
• Highly self-motivated and detail-oriented.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving abilities.
• Able to work effectively in a dynamic environment, prioritize competing demands, and execute across multiple projects.
• Team-oriented and comfortable working in a collaborative services environment.
• Demonstrated ability to build positive relationships with business and technical stakeholders.
• Commitment to maintaining current knowledge of enterprise networking, adjacent security trends, and modern infrastructure practices.

What Compugen Offers You:

• Exciting, fast-paced challenging work environment
• A culture where authenticity and diversity are valued
• Professional development
• Participation in Women in Technology Network
• Opportunities to give back to our local communities
• Collaborative supportive team members
• Remote work/hybrid work options
• Work/life flexibility

Equity Statement At Compugen, we are committed to diversity, equity and inclusion. We actively recruit from all groups, including women, Indigenous people, persons with disabilities and members of visible minorities. We recognize the importance of removing barriers to participation and provide accommodation upon request to all applicants throughout the recruitment process. If you require an accommodation, our People & Culture representatives will work with you to meet your needs in a confidential and respectful manner. We believe everyone deserves a seat at the table and we are taking deliberate action to make this a reality. #LI-RB1