CCSP / CCIE Sec career perspective
Dear members,
I was searching around on LinkedIn network engineer's profiles employed at ISPs/Telcos in UK.
I noticed that most Telco (Sky, BT, Vodafone) companies tend to hire CCIEs in Service Provider.
I was wondering if you could draw the demarcation line between the two types of CCIEs and the type of roles and companies somebody could possibly land. I might make a wrong assumption, but I think that CCIE Sec is required for boutique companies rather than large enterprise networks like ISP and Telco. Even though Network Security involves any company.
Also, I was curious to ask if it's always required to obtain the CCIE R/S before to move into any specific track.
Kind Regards.
I was searching around on LinkedIn network engineer's profiles employed at ISPs/Telcos in UK.
I noticed that most Telco (Sky, BT, Vodafone) companies tend to hire CCIEs in Service Provider.
I was wondering if you could draw the demarcation line between the two types of CCIEs and the type of roles and companies somebody could possibly land. I might make a wrong assumption, but I think that CCIE Sec is required for boutique companies rather than large enterprise networks like ISP and Telco. Even though Network Security involves any company.
Also, I was curious to ask if it's always required to obtain the CCIE R/S before to move into any specific track.
Kind Regards.
Comments
Other tracks definitely do not require you to have CCIE R&S first. I'll be sitting my CCIE Data Center lab next friday, and the only thing I have in R&S track is a long expired CCNA.
In case I would like to find out information about the job role and the companies as CCIE sec. Could you help me to have a better picture?
Kind Regards.
I have seem that the ISPs have their local certified and extremely good engineers, but the majority of the work and higher certified people i see it on the vendor and consultant side.
The ISPs where i live, have their own people but for big projects hire the vendor and-or consultant companies to deploy or help support the new deployments, projects, etc.
I know a CCIE on security he was working for the consultant company that america mobile hires/has contract with for their audits, security consultancy and that supports the new deployments related with security that they have.
He also works for other ISPs projects.
I wanted to be sure we talk the same language. When you say "the vendor" you mean the Cisco Partner that sells the equipment and offer its expertise for consulting. Am I correct?
Kind Regards.
The company that develops the hardware-software. U name it: Cisco, Juniper, HP, Ericsson, Huawei.