About us

Mantel Group is an Australian-owned technology consulting business with capabilities across Cloud, Digital, Data, Delivery & Security. Since our inception in November 2017, we have experienced remarkable growth across Australia & New Zealand and are honoured to be recognised as a Great Place to Work for 6 years in a row!

We hire smart and talented people and get out of their way. As a principle-based organisation, we have a flat structure with no hierarchy. By focusing on our five principles and not getting caught up in red tape, we trust you to get the job done!

About the role

This position will have a wide remit, covering leading client engagements, stakeholder management, pre-sales, and delivery of solutions. The role will both deliver direct consulting services to clients in the area of security design and implementation, as well as act as a bridge between the security engineering team and broader Mantel Group capabilities to help ensure that the technical solutions we recommend and deliver to clients will achieve the strategic objectives intended.

Whilst this role will have a focus around Palo Alto products and services, we are not expecting this to be the entirety of the role, with application across broader networking, infrastructure and general cloud security expected.

Your day-to-day

• Providing industry experience and recommendation across a wide range of technologies and solutions

• Understanding client business requirements, current strategies, technologies, limitations and translating them into robust, justifiable security solution definitions.

• Leading large scale security projects for enterprise customers, particularly those where Palo Alto services are significantly employed. Specific experience in designing and deploying one or more of the following products desirable

  • Prisma access (SASE)

  • Cortex (CNAPP)

  • Software firewalls

• Developing designs encompassing security infrastructure, platforms and services. This may include network security group policies, IAM controls, data loss protection policies and more.

• Reviewing, designing and implementing secure solutions across major cloud providers (AWS, Azure, Google)

• Operate as Mantel Group’s primary technical partner with Palo Alto, keeping informed of product developments and releases and maintaining relationships with key Palo product SE’s

• Supporting sales and pre-sales activities with clients

What you’ll need to be successful

• Extensive knowledge and hands-on experience across the Palo Alto cloud product portfolio (primarily within a cloud context) as well as those of comparable vendors.

• Experience in designing, implementing and maintaining security solutions and control implementations; primarily in cloud and / or hybrid environments

• Strong knowledge of zero trust principles and architectures, as well as their practical limitations and inhibitors to successful implementations

• Cloud devops engineering skills with prior experience in deploying IAC such as terraform or using python or ansible for configuration management

• Willingness to continually upskill; including learning new technologies and obtaining new certifications

• Experience in mentoring and leading junior consultants

• Experience in leading teams and projects

• Experience working in regulated environments

• Excellent written and verbal communication skills including the ability to liaise with and influence diverse stakeholder groups

Security

Working in our emerging and growing cyber security capability allows you to work closely with clients across our teams. Mantel Group presents to the market a cohesive, integrated cybersecurity capability, bringing together both security specialists with the broader cloud, data and digital specialists of the Mantel Group. Our security capabilities span governance, risk and compliance, architecture, cyber engineering, offensive security, and are delivered across two streams - Advisory and Engineering. We enable large-scale cyber security initiatives for our clients, and improve the protection of IT environments.

What you can expect from us

• We know you won’t have one job for life. At Mantel Group we believe in supporting our team to take their career in a direction that aligns with their passions. We have internal opportunities across Cloud, Data, Digital, Delivery & Security.
• You’ll get all the tools you need to hit the ground running including a new phone, laptop & swag.
• We believe in unique experiences for all. Our My Deal program allows you to tailor your yearly plan, with the support of your Leader, to decide on what’s most important to you. That might be extra professional development, extra annual leave, time to work on your side hustle, or something else completely different! One size does not fit all.
• You’ll be genuinely supported by an organisation that cares about not only you but your family as well, Mantel Group offers Flexible Personal Leave options for those unplanned moments in life.
• We support a flexible hybrid approach to working which is guided by our principles; we trust each other to “make good choices” about the best workplace locations for the requirements of the project, role and client. This can change based on our client needs.
• Mantel Group is a certified Family Inclusive Workplace, which means we are committed to improving your wellbeing at work through leading practices on flexible work, parental leave, family care and family wellbeing.

Click ‘Apply for this job’ to be considered for this role and our Talent team will be in touch.

We value a diverse workplace and strongly encourage people from all backgrounds and minority groups to apply.