Cloud Security & Compliance Consultant

AHEAD; United States; Hybrid; USD 150,000 - 180,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health insurance

401(k)

Paid time off

Paid holidays

Parental leave

Job summary

AHEAD is seeking a Technical Consultant to lead cloud security architecture and risk strategy for enterprise clients, both onsite and remotely. You will translate risk into cloud-native controls, design governance across IaC pipelines, and drive security tooling integrations with Wiz and Prisma Cloud.

You will also contribute to business development, create deliverables, and mentor colleagues while maintaining broad IT trend knowledge. Competitive US salary offered.

Qualifications

• Minimum of 4 years consulting experience.
• 2 professional and/or technical certifications aligned to AHEAD’s Security service portfolio.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills.
• Comfortable addressing groups in virtual or in-person settings.
• Demonstrated business acumen.
• Ability to solve complex, abstract problems.
• Executive presence with leadership characteristics.

Responsibilities

• Cloud Security Architecture & Risk Strategy: review and implement secure cloud reference architectures and landing zones.
• Translate risk strategy into cloud-native security controls.
• Design multi-cloud governance models (IaC, PaC, multi-account).
• CNAPP tooling: Wiz and Prisma Cloud integration with enterprise tooling.
• Communicate Wiz/Prisma outputs to technical and business stakeholders.
• Deploy Prisma Cloud in enterprise environments.
• Automation, IaC & container security: Terraform/Bicep/AWS CloudFormation; policy-as-code.
• Scripting in Python/PowerShell/Bash to automate security tasks.
• Container security with Docker and Kubernetes; secure workloads at scale.
• Support business development and pre-sales activities when needed.

Skills

Verbal and written communication

Public speaking

Business acumen

Problem solving

Interpersonal skills

Executive presence

Leadership

Education

Undergraduate degree in Computer Science or Business Management

Tools

Wiz

Prisma Cloud

Terraform

CloudFormation

Kubernetes

Docker

ServiceNow

CI/CD pipelines

Okta/Entra ID

Job description

AHEAD is seeking a Technical Consultant to lead cloud security architecture and risk strategy for enterprise clients, both onsite and remotely. You will translate risk into cloud-native controls, design governance across IaC pipelines, and drive security tooling integrations with Wiz and Prisma Cloud.

You will also contribute to business development, create deliverables, and mentor colleagues while maintaining broad IT trend knowledge. Competitive US salary offered.