Senior Cloud & Application Security Strategist

AHEAD; Northern (KY); Hybrid; USD 250,000 - 300,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical, Dental, Vision Insurance

401(k)

Paid holidays

Paid time off

Parental and caregiver leave

Job summary

AHEAD is hiring a Principal Technical Consultant to lead security-focused engagements across cloud-native platforms. You will guide delivery teams, craft security delivery plans, and mentor engineers while shaping the practice and winning new work.

The role demands deep expertise in CNAPP tooling, cloud security, and DevSecOps, with strong communication and leadership across client delivery, business development, and thought leadership.

Qualifications

• Undergraduate degree in Computer Science or Business Management preferred.
• Minimum of 3+ years of leadership experience.
• Professional certifications aligned to security portfolios are preferred (e.g. CISSP, CCSP, CSSLP, GIAC).
• Demonstrated experience establishing or maturing application security programs and mentoring engineers.

Responsibilities

• Leads sessions of strategy, roadmap, design, and planning workshops for small to medium sized service engagements.
• Execute on project objectives, requirements gathering, milestones, timelines, to ensure engagements are delivered on time.
• Create and finalize project deliverables and perform peer review for collateral.
• Present deliverables effectively to project team members.
• Define and operationalize security delivery plans, including secure SDLC controls and risk-based prioritization.
• Lead application security and threat modeling workshops.

Skills

Workshop facilitation

Project delivery

Executive reporting

Problem solving

Education

Bachelor's degree in CS or Business Management

Tools

Wiz CNAPP

ServiceNow

CI/CD pipelines

Terraform

Bicep

AWS CloudFormation

Docker

Kubernetes

SAST/DAST/SCA

Job description

AHEAD is hiring a Principal Technical Consultant to lead security-focused engagements across cloud-native platforms. You will guide delivery teams, craft security delivery plans, and mentor engineers while shaping the practice and winning new work.

The role demands deep expertise in CNAPP tooling, cloud security, and DevSecOps, with strong communication and leadership across client delivery, business development, and thought leadership.