IT Security Consultant (m/w/d) - Network Security

IBM; Boston (MA); Hybrid; USD 70,000 - 111,000; Full time

Job summary

IBM Consulting is seeking a Security Consultant specializing in Data Security to help clients understand risks, exposures, and vulnerabilities. You will deliver consulting services to analyze and resolve security incidents, supporting clients in achieving a superior security posture.

Based in IBM Consulting FutureNow Centers, you will develop security strategies and incident response plans for hybrid cloud environments, applying zero-trust principles to protect infrastructure and applications.

Qualifications

• Exposure to cloud security challenges and hybrid cloud environments.
• Understanding secure infrastructure and zero-trust principles.
• Experience in analyzing and resolving security incidents.
• Experience delivering security consulting services to clients.

Responsibilities

• Conduct client assessments to identify security issues and incidents.
• Develop infrastructure security programs and incident response roadmaps.
• Analyze security incidents and provide remediation guidance.
• Deliver tailored security solutions based on client needs and zero-trust concepts.
• Develop and implement incident response plans for clients.

Skills

Cloud Security exposure

Secure Infrastructure

Incident Response

Security Consulting

Hybrid Cloud applications

Education

Bachelor's Degree

Job description

A career in IBM Consulting is built on long‑term client relationships and close collaboration worldwide. You’ll work with leading companies across industries, helping them shape their hybrid cloud and AI journeys. With support from our strategic partners, robust IBM technology, and Red Hat, you’ll have the tools to drive meaningful change and accelerate client impact. At IBM Consulting, curiosity fuels success. You’ll be encouraged to challenge the norm, explore new ideas, and create innovative solutions that deliver real results. Our culture of growth and empathy focuses on your long‑term career development while valuing your unique skills and experiences.

In this role, you'll work in one of our IBM Consulting FutureNow Centers, where we deliver deep technical and industry expertise to a wide range of public and private sector clients around the world. Our delivery centers offer our clients locally based skills and technical expertise to drive innovation and adoption of new technology.

Your role and responsibilities

As a Security Consultant specializing in Data Security, you will help clients understand Data Security issues, risks, exposures, and vulnerabilities. You will provide consulting services to analyze and resolve security incidents and support clients in achieving a superior security posture.

Your primary responsibilities will include:

• Conduct Client Assessments: Conduct interviews, workshops, and assessments to identify potential security issues and provide consulting services to analyze and resolve security incidents.
• Develop Security Strategies: Apply in-depth knowledge of secure infrastructure and applications of hybrid cloud to develop infrastructure security programs, incident response plans, and remediation recommendations and roadmaps.
• Analyze Security Incidents: Provide consulting services to analyze and resolve security incidents, enabling clients to achieve a superior security posture and effectively manage security incidents.
• Deliver Tailored Solutions: Develop infrastructure security solutions tailored to the client’s business needs, applying security and zero trust principles.
• Implement Incident Response Plans: Develop and implement incident response plans to help clients manage security incidents effectively.

This position will be based within the Cybersecurity service line.

Required education

Bachelor's Degree

Preferred education

Bachelor's Degree

Required technical and professional expertise

• Exposure to Cloud Security: Familiarity with cloud security challenges, risks, and vulnerabilities, including experience working with hybrid cloud infrastructure and applications.
• Secure Infrastructure Knowledge: Understanding of secure infrastructure principles, including hands‑on experience with security and zero trust principles in an infrastructure security context.
• Incident Response Experience: Exposure to analyzing and resolving security incidents, including experience developing and implementing incident response plans.
• Security Consulting Skills: Experience providing consulting services to clients, including conducting interviews, workshops, and assessments to identify potential security issues.
• Hybrid Cloud Applications: Familiarity with secure applications of hybrid cloud, including experience developing infrastructure security strategies and programs tailored to business needs.

Preferred technical and professional experience

• Cloud Security Frameworks: Exposure to industry‑recognized cloud security frameworks and standards, including knowledge of compliance requirements and regulatory mandates.
• Advanced Threat Analysis: Familiarity with advanced threat analysis and incident response methodologies, including experience with threat intelligence and security analytics tools.
• Zero Trust Architecture: Understanding of zero trust architecture principles and implementation strategies, including experience designing and deploying secure infrastructure solutions.

ABOUT BUSINESS UNIT

IBM Consulting is IBM’s consulting and global professional services business, with market leading capabilities in business and technology transformation. With deep expertise in many industries, we offer strategy, experience, technology, and operations services to many of the most innovative and valuable companies in the world. Our people are focused on accelerating our clients’ businesses through the power of collaboration. We believe in the power of technology responsibly used to help people, partners and the planet.

YOUR LIFE @ IBM

In a world where technology never stands still, we understand that, dedication to our clients success, innovation that matters, and trust and personal responsibility in all our relationships, lives in what we do as IBMers as we strive to be the catalyst that makes the world work better.

Being an IBMer means you’ll be able to learn and develop yourself and your career, you’ll be encouraged to be courageous and experiment everyday, all whilst having continuous trust and support in an environment where everyone can thrive whatever their personal or professional background.

Our IBMers are growth minded, always staying curious, open to feedback and learning new information and skills to constantly transform themselves and our company. They are trusted to provide on‑going feedback to help other IBMers grow, as well as collaborate with colleagues keeping in mind a team focused approach to include different perspectives to drive exceptional outcomes for our customers. The courage our IBMers have to make critical decisions everyday is essential to IBM becoming the catalyst for progress, always embracing challenges with resources they have to hand, a can‑do attitude and always striving for an outcome focused approach within everything that they do.

Are you ready to be an IBMer?

ABOUT IBM

IBM’s greatest invention is the IBMer. We believe that through the application of intelligence, reason and science, we can improve business, society and the human condition, bringing the power of an open hybrid cloud and AI strategy to life for our clients and partners around the world.

Restlessly reinventing since 1911, we are not only one of the largest corporate organizations in the world, we’re also one of the biggest technology and consulting employers, with many of the Fortune 500 companies relying on the IBM Cloud to run their business.

At IBM, we pride ourselves on being an early adopter of artificial intelligence, quantum computing and blockchain. Now it’s time for you to join us on our journey to being a responsible technology innovator and a force for good in the world.

IBM is proud to be an equal‑opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, national origin, genetics, pregnancy, disability, neurodivergence, age, or other characteristics protected by the applicable law. IBM is also committed to compliance with all fair employment practices regarding citizenship and immigration status.

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IT Security Consultant (m/w/d) - Infrastructure Security

Job ID

125669

City / Township / Village

State / Province

Country

Germany

Work arrangement

Hybrid

Area of work

Consulting

Employment type

Regular

Position type

Entry Level

Some travel may be required based on business demand

Company

(1295) IBM Client Innovation Center Germany GmbH

Shift

General (daytime)

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