Director, Professional Services - Cybersecurity

Logicalis, Inc.; Topeka (KS); On-site; USD 160,000 - 175,000; Full time

Job summary

Logicalis, Inc. is seeking a Cybersecurity Delivery Leader in the United States to drive people, delivery execution, and operational performance for cybersecurity professional services.

The role oversees advisory, assessment, architecture, implementation, migration, remediation, and incident-readiness engagements, collaborating with Sales, Solution Architects, and Managed Services to deliver customer outcomes.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in cybersecurity, information technology, business, or a related field.
• 8+ years of experience in cybersecurity, technology consulting, professional services, systems integration, or related delivery roles.
• 3+ years of experience leading technical consulting or professional services resources.
• Broad knowledge across cybersecurity domains such as governance, risk and compliance; security assessments; data protection; identity and access management; zero trust; vulnerability and exposure management; SIEM, XDR, EDR, and firewalls; incident readiness and response; and security architecture.
• Familiarity with common cybersecurity frameworks and standards such as NIST CSF, CIS Controls, ISO 27001, and other requirements.
• Professional certifications such as CISSP, CISM, CRISC, CCSP, PMP, or comparable credentials.

Responsibilities

• Owns delivery across the cybersecurity professional services portfolio, including advisory and governance, AI security and governance, data protection, and security operations.
• Ensures engagements meet SOW, delivery methodologies, customer expectations, and internal quality standards.
• Leads complex or high-risk engagements and provides escalation point for delivery, customer, resource, scope, schedule, or quality concerns.
• Builds repeatable delivery motions and standard templates, with quality checkpoints and lessons learned.
• Oversees workforce planning, staffing, mentoring, and development of cybersecurity delivery talent.

Skills

Cybersecurity leadership

Delivery management

Staffing & mentoring

Risk & governance

Security architectures

Education

Bachelor's degree or equivalent

Job description

Summary

The Cybersecurity Professional Services Leader is responsible for the people, delivery execution, operational performance, and continued development of Logicalis US cybersecurity professional services. This leader ensures that cybersecurity engagements are staffed appropriately, delivered consistently, and completed in alignment with customer outcomes, contractual commitments, quality expectations, schedule, and financial objectives. This leader will play a key role in building and scaling Logicalis' cybersecurity professional services capabilities through workforce development, delivery standardization, operational excellence, and repeatable service delivery models. The role leads cybersecurity professional services resources delivering advisory, assessment, architecture, implementation, migration, remediation, and incident-readiness engagements across the Logicalis cybersecurity portfolio. The leader works closely with the Cybersecurity Practice, Portfolio Management, Sales, Solution Architects, Project Management, Managed Services, Operations, and strategic delivery partners to translate market-ready offerings into repeatable, scalable, and high-quality customer delivery.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities

Cybersecurity Delivery Leadership

• Owns delivery execution across the cybersecurity professional services portfolio, including Advisory and GRC, AI security and governance, data protection, exposure management, security operations, cyber resilience, and identity and zero trust services.
• Ensures engagements are executed in accordance with approved Statements of Work, delivery methodologies, customer expectations, and internal quality standards.
• Provides leadership oversight for complex or high-risk engagements and serve as an escalation point for delivery, customer, resource, scope, schedule, or quality concerns.
• Establishes consistent delivery practices, standards, templates, quality checkpoints, and lessons-learned processes across cybersecurity engagements.
• Ensures effective transition from sales and solution development into delivery, including scope validation, resource readiness, delivery assumptions, acceptance criteria, and customer kickoff preparation.
• Partners with project management resources to monitor engagement health, milestones, risks, issues, dependencies, change control, and customer communications.undefined
• Ensures findings, recommendations, configurations, architectures, and other deliverables are clear, actionable, technically sound, and appropriate for the customer environment.

Resource and Talent Leadership

• Builds and matures cybersecurity delivery capabilities through strategic hiring, technical enablement, certification planning, mentoring, and succession planning.
• Leads, coaches, and develops cybersecurity consultants, engineers, architects, and other professional services resources.
• Owns workforce planning for cybersecurity professional services, balancing demand, skills, geography, utilization, customer needs, and employee development.
• Assigns the right resources to engagements based on technical capability, experience, availability, and engagement risk.
• Defines role expectations, technical skill requirements, certification priorities, and development roadmaps in partnership with Cybersecurity Practice leadership.
• Owns recruiting, interviewing, onboarding, performance management, succession planning, and retention of cybersecurity delivery talent.
• Builds a culture of accountability, knowledge sharing, continuous learning, customer focus, and cross-team collaboration.
• Develops an intentional sourcing model that determines when work should be delivered with internal resources, strategic partners, or subcontractors, while protecting quality, customer experience, and margin.

Operational and Financial Management

• Monitors and manages utilization, backlog coverage, capacity, project margin, revenue forecasting, time entry, delivery efficiency, and other professional services operating metrics.
• Provides accurate and timely reporting on resource demand, staffing gaps, engagement health, delivery risks, and financial performance.
• Identifies operational constraints and implement improvements that increase delivery quality, scalability, predictability, and profitability.
• Ensures appropriate governance for subcontractor and partner delivery, including resource qualification, onboarding, statements of work, performance oversight, and quality assurance.
• Partners with Operations and Finance to support forecasting, resource planning, cost management, and corrective actions when performance is outside expectations.

Portfolio Readiness and Continuous Improvement

• Partners with the Cybersecurity Practice Director and Portfolio Management to ensure new and updated offerings are executable before release to the field.
• Provides delivery input into service design, scope boundaries, level-of-effort assumptions, skills requirements, dependencies, pricing considerations, and delivery risk.
• Transforms lessons learned from customer engagements into improvements to methods, templates, enablement, estimates, and solution definitions.
• Maintains awareness of evolving cybersecurity threats, technologies, frameworks, partner capabilities, and customer requirements that may affect delivery readiness.
• Translates new cybersecurity offerings into repeatable delivery motions by defining delivery methodologies, resource requirements, quality standards, and implementation approaches.
• Helps standardize repeatable delivery motions while preserving the flexibility required for complex customer environments.

Customer, Sales, and Cross-Functional Engagement

• Builds trusted relationships with customer stakeholders and participate in executive-level engagement reviews when needed.
• Partners with Sales and Solution Architects during strategic or complex opportunities to validate delivery approach, resource availability, assumptions, sequencing, and risk.
• Supports development and review of proposals, Statements of Work, change requests, and delivery plans.
• Identifies follow-on needs and transition qualified opportunities to Sales without compromising the objectivity or quality of delivery.
• Coordinates with Managed Services to create effective transitions from project delivery into ongoing operations, governance, or lifecycle services.
• Collaborates across technology practices when cybersecurity outcomes depend on cloud, network, modern workplace, data center, data governance, or other capabilities.

General

Demonstrates and actively promotes an understanding and commitment to the mission of Logicalis through performing behaviors consistent with the organization's values. Maintains a working knowledge of applicable Federal, State, and Local laws and regulations as well as policies and procedures of Logicalis in order to ensure adherence in a manner that reflects honest, ethical and professional behaviors. Supports and conducts self in a manner consistent with customer service expectations.

Supervisory Responsibilities

Directly leads assigned cybersecurity professional services employees and may oversee partner or subcontractor resources engaged in customer delivery. Responsibilities may include workforce planning, hiring, onboarding, work assignment, coaching, development planning, performance management, recognition, and resolution of employee or delivery concerns in accordance with company policies and applicable law.

Qualifications

Education/Experience/Technical Requirements/Certifications

• Bachelor's degree in cybersecurity, information technology, business, or a related field, or an equivalent combination of education and relevant experience.
• 8+ years of experience in cybersecurity, technology consulting, professional services, systems integration, or related delivery roles.
• 3+ years of experience leading technical consulting or professional services resources.undefined
• Broad working knowledge across cybersecurity domains such as governance, risk and compliance; security assessments; data protection; identity and access management; zero trust; vulnerability and exposure management; SIEM, XDR, EDR, and firewalls; incident readiness and response; and security architecture.
• Ability to understand cybersecurity risk, translate technical issues into business impact, and communicate clearly with technical, operational, and executive stakeholders.
• Familiarity with common cybersecurity frameworks and standards such as NIST Cybersecurity Framework, CIS Controls, ISO 27001, and other customer-relevant regulatory or industry requirements.
• Ability to evaluate technical delivery risk and recognize when deeper subject-matter expertise is required.
• Relevant professional certification such as CISSP, CISM, CRISC, CCSP, PMP, or comparable technical or delivery credentials.

Other Skills and Abilities

• Experience building, scaling, or transforming a cybersecurity consulting, professional services, or technical delivery organization.
• Demonstrated experience overseeing multiple concurrent customer engagements with accountability for staffing, quality, schedule, scope, risk, and financial performance.
• Experience developing technical talent and managing geographically distributed teams.
• Experience working across sales, presales, project management, delivery, operations, portfolio, and managed services functions.
• Working knowledge of Statements of Work, change control, project financials, utilization, capacity planning, and services margin.undefined
• Experience in a systems integrator, consulting firm, managed services provider, or cybersecurity services organization.
• Experience working with strategic cybersecurity technology partners and partner-enabled delivery models.
• Experience integrating professional services with managed security services or ongoing operational support.

Physical Demands

While performing the duties of this Job, the employee is constantly required to sit, talk, see, hear, and use hands and arms. The employee is frequently required to stand; move about, climb steps or balance and stoop, kneel, crouch, or crawl. The employee may occasionally lift and/or move up to 10 pounds. The above statements describe the general nature and level of work being performed by individuals assigned to this classification. This is not intended to be an exhaustive list of all responsibilities and duties required of personnel so classified.

Equal Opportunity Employer

Logicalis is an Equal Opportunity Employer. It is our policy to employ people who are qualified by reason of education, training, experience, and demonstrated performance. We value inclusion and belonging at our company. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, national origin, sexual orientation, gender identity and gender expression, marital status, age, height, weight, disability, veteran status, or any other reason prohibited by applicable federal or state laws.

NOTE: It is Logicalis' practice that when a client requires medical testing, the employee must accept that requirement as a condition of their assignment and either submit to the tests or show proof they've completed the test satisfactorily (i.e., TB Test negative).

Salary Range: $160,000 - $175,000 + BonusLogicalisUS Benefits Summary