Principal Cybersecurity Advisor-Cisco Networking and Security | Remote

Remote

Leawood, Kansas

Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

Providence, Rhode Island

Hartford, Connecticut

Birmingham, Alabama

Cheyenne, Wyoming

Milwaukee, Wisconsin

Morgantown, West Virginia

Richmond, Virginia

Salt Lake City, Utah

Austin, Texas

Fort Worth, Texas

Nashville, Tennessee

Columbia, South Carolina

Tallahassee, Florida

Oklahoma City, Oklahoma

Fargo, North Dakota

Charlotte, North Carolina

Albuquerque, New Mexico

Manchester, New Hampshire

Jacksonville, Florida

Omaha, Nebraska

Bozeman, Montana

Little Rock, Arkansas

Detroit, Michigan

Boston, Massachusetts

Portland, Maine

Baton Rouge, Louisiana

Louisville, Kentucky

Des Moines, Iowa

Indianapolis, Indiana

Boise, Idaho

Atlanta, Georgia

Alexandria, Virginia

Tampa, Florida

Fayetteville, Arkansas

Phoenix, Arizona

Arlington, Virginia

Orlando, Florida

Dallas, Texas

St. Louis, Missouri

Miami, Florida

Houston, Texas

Memphis, Tennessee

Herndon, Virginia

Charleston, South Carolina

Raleigh, North Carolina

Grand Rapids, Michigan

Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania

This position will be fully remote and can be hired anywhere in the continental U.S.

The Principal Cybersecurity Advisor serves as a senior technical leader within Optiv's Cisco Center of Excellence. This individual brings broad, current experience across Cisco enterprise networking and network security and helps clients translate business requirements, cyber risk, and infrastructure priorities into practical architecture strategies.

The Principal Advisor leads technical discovery and solution strategy for complex Cisco opportunities, advises client executives and technical stakeholders, and connects Cisco capabilities with Optiv services and the broader security portfolio. The role also develops reusable technical assets, supports field enablement, and helps regional Client Solutions Advisors engage Cisco opportunities with greater consistency and confidence.

This is an individual-contributor technical leadership role. It works across organizational boundaries through expertise and influence rather than direct authority over regional Client Solutions Advisors, sales teams, Partner Alliances, marketing, or delivery organizations.

What we’re looking for

• 10 or more years of relevant experience in cybersecurity, enterprise networking, solution architecture, consulting, or technical pre-sales.

• Demonstrated depth across Cisco enterprise networking and network security, with current knowledge in several of the following areas.

• Enterprise routing, switching, wireless, and segmentation

• Catalyst, Meraki, software-defined networking, and SD-WAN

• Cisco Secure Firewall and hybrid mesh firewall strategy

• Cisco ISE, network access control, and identity-based policy

• Cisco Secure Access, SSE, SASE, and zero-trust architectures

• Thousand Eyes and digital experience visibility

• Cisco XDR, security telemetry, and integrations across the Cisco security portfolio

• Cloud and multicloud networking and security

• Experience leading architecture discussions and technical pursuits involving complex client environments.

• Strong client-facing communication skills, including executive discovery, whiteboarding, presentations, and written recommendations.

• Ability to connect technical decisions to business risk, resilience, operating cost, investment protection, and measurable outcomes.

• Experience influencing opportunities through technical qualification, competitive positioning, solution development, objection handling, and client decision.

• Ability to work independently in a distributed organization and lead through influence across teams that have different reporting structures and priorities.

• Sound judgment about when Cisco is the right fit and when a client-first recommendation requires a different or broader solution.

• Ability to travel within the United States and Canada as client and business…