[Hiring] Senior Technical Consultant - Cloud Security @Ahead

Role Description

Sr. Technical Consultants are experienced experts in information security and/or information security governance or compliance. Successful candidates support the Security and Compliance Practice in Delivery, Business Development, and Practice Development.

• Collaborate with a diverse team of consultants to meet and exceed client expectations through scoped engagements.
• Support client engagements onsite or remotely by guiding engagements toward scoped objectives and troubleshooting project risks or issues.
• Execute necessary project tasks, produce expected collateral, and present artifacts throughout an engagement.
• Support business development activities alongside a sales specialist to help qualify client needs and expectations.
• Contribute to continuous improvement and maturation of in-practice service offerings and capabilities.

Responsibilities

• Client Delivery
  • Facilitate sessions of strategy, roadmap, design, and planning workshops for medium to large service engagements.
  • Ensure customer expectations are appropriately set and managed.
  • Lead project engagement teams through the delivery of consulting service offerings.
  • Drive and manage objectives, requirements gathering, project tasks/milestones, project status, dependencies, and timelines.
  • Break down risks or issues into manageable segments and determine the best approach.
  • Create and finalize project deliverables; perform peer review for collateral developed by others.
  • Present deliverables to client executive management.
  • Act as the Engagement Lead on customer-facing projects, when assigned.
• Business Development
  • Support business development pursuits through client discovery meetings.
  • Represent service offerings during the sales cycle, including project scoping, proposal development, and presenting proposals to clients.
  • Assist Principal Consultants with engagement scoping and the creation of proposal collateral.
  • Identify opportunities for cross-practice collaboration.
• Practice Development & Thought Leadership
  • Maintain subject matter expertise in a minimum of eight security domains or three security solutions.
  • Participate in the development, enhancement, and standardization of AHEAD in-practice service offerings.
  • Own and/or enable more than one service capability.
  • Maintain a broad knowledge and understanding of current and future state IT trends, technologies, and standards.
  • Lend support and mentorship to others.

Qualifications

• Proven experience in reviewing and implementing secure cloud reference architectures and landing zones.
• Ability to translate risk strategy by mapping traditional lift-and-shift approaches into cloud-native security controls.
• Strong understanding of multi-cloud governance models including Infrastructure-as-Code (IaC), policy-as-code (PaC), tagging standards, and multi-account strategies.
• 5+ years of hands-on experience with CNAPP tools, particularly Wiz and Prisma Cloud.
• Expertise in integrating Wiz and Prisma Cloud with enterprise tooling such as ServiceNow, CI/CD pipelines, and ticketing/alerting workflows.
• 5+ years of experience working with AWS, Azure, and/or GCP.
• Strong knowledge of security standards and frameworks: CIS Benchmarks, NIST, FedRAMP, ISO 27001, GDPR.
• Ability to read, understand, and apply Infrastructure-as-Code (Terraform, Bicep, CloudFormation).
• Proficiency in scripting (Python, PowerShell, Bash) to automate security tasks.

Requirements

• Experience with containerization (Docker, Kubernetes) and securing workloads at scale.
• Familiarity with cloud-native security services such as AWS Security Hub, Microsoft Defender for Cloud, and Google Security Command Center.
• Hands-on knowledge of cloud identity (IAM, Federation, RBAC) across multi-cloud environments.
• Familiarity with IDaaS solutions such as Okta and Entra ID.
• Experience with SIEM integration (Splunk, Sentinel, Chronicle) and cloud-native detection capabilities.

Benefits

• Medical, Dental, and Vision Insurance
• 401(k)
• Paid company holidays
• Paid time off
• Paid parental and caregiver leave
• Plus more! See benefits here for additional details.

Compensation

$170,000 - $220,000 a year. The compensation range indicated reflects the On-Target Earnings (“OTE”) for this role, which includes a base salary and any applicable target bonus amount.