Senior Consultant, Network Security

Coalfire; United States; Hybrid; USD 140,000 - 180,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

paid parental leave

flexible time off

certification and training reimburse"

digital mental health and wellbeing

comprehensive insurance options

Job summary

Coalfire is seeking a Senior Consultant to lead engagements and assess security across client applications and infrastructure. You will mentor teammates, contribute subject-matter expertise, and serve as a trusted advisor to clients in risk-based decision making.

Join a team delivering advanced penetration testing across internal networks and AD, with opportunities to grow in cloud and red/purple team engagements while working in a flexible, supportive environment.

Qualifications

• Minimum 5 years in a consulting/professional services role.
• Minimum 5 years in Network Security.
• Expert proficiency in Network Penetration Testing, including internal network testing and Active Directory exploitation.
• Strong development or engineering background with relevant skills.

Responsibilities

• Lead and support engagements with Project Managers, Delivery Directors, and delivery teams.
• Perform penetration testing on networks, focusing on internal networks and Active Directory vulnerabilities.
• Lead complex engagements to provide consistency across tests.
• Contextualize vulnerabilities and assess realistic impact for clients.
• Support sales by scoping out potential opportunities.
• Ensure quality reports and services are delivered on time.

Skills

Network Pentest

Active Directory

Programming / Scripting

Consulting skills

Cloud Penetration Testing

Red/Purple Team

Offensive certs

AWS/GCP Cloud

Social Engineering

Mobile App Pen Testing

Education

OSCP/OSCE/OSEE

AWS Certifications

Tools

Python

PowerShell

Nmap

Job description

About Coalfire

Coalfire is on a mission to make the world a safer place by solving our clients’ hardest cybersecurity challenges. We work at the cutting edge of technology to advise, assess, automate, and ultimately help companies navigate the ever-changing cybersecurity landscape. We are headquartered in Chicago, Illinois with offices across the U.S. and U.K., and we support clients around the world.

But that’s not who we are – that’s just what we do.

We are thought leaders, consultants, and cybersecurity experts, but above all else, we are a team of passionate problem-solvers who are hungry to learn, grow, and make a difference.

Position Summary

The Senior Consultant works closely with Project Managers, Delivery Directors, and other Delivery team members to lead engagements, assessing the security of various types of client applications and supporting infrastructure against security best practices. The Senior Consultant is a technical leader with broad and deep technical skills, meeting the objectives of their engagements, collaborating with clients, mentoring teammates, and providing subject matter expertise across one or more technical domains. The Senior Consultant is a trusted advisor to clients, and through objective testing and results reporting, supports the client in making well-informed, risk-based decisions to improve overall security posture.

Responsibilities

• Working independently and collaboratively with a team to both lead and support
• Perform penetration testing on networks, with a focus on internal networks and exploiting Active Directory vulnerabilities
• Dynamically flex your skills when assessing emerging or custom technologies.
• Lead complex engagements to provide a technical consistency approach across multiple tests.
• Contextualize vulnerabilities and assess realistic impact to a client accounting for mitigating and aggravating factors.
• Manage priorities and tasks to achieve utilization targets.
• Operate with professionalism both internally and with clients.
• Ensure quality reports and services are delivered efficiently and on time.
• Support sales and business growth by scoping out potential opportunities.
• Maintains strong depth of knowledge in the practice area.
• Collaborate with project managers, quality management, sales and other delivery team members to drive customer satisfaction and meet project deliverables.

Qualifications

• Network penetration testing and assessment tradecraft and methodologies
• Strong working knowledge of at least one programming or scripting languages
• Strong understanding of security principles and industry best practices.
• Minimum of 5 years’ experience in a consulting/professional services role
• Minimum of 5 years’ experience in Network Security
• Excellent consulting skills including:
  • Time management, performing adjacent tasks while ensuring on-time delivery, escalating issues as needed
  • Verbal communication, leading client calls for project kickoffs and debrief
  • Written communication
  • Report writing, for both executive audiences and technical staff.
  • Expert proficiency in Network Penetration Testing, including internal network testing and exploiting Active Directory vulnerabilities
  • Excellent overall technical skills, with strong expertise in at least one of the following:
    • Social Engineering (both vishing & phishing)
    • Physical Penetration Testing
    • Mobile Application Penetration Testing
    • Thick Application Penetration Testing
    • Hardware Penetration Testing
    • Secure Code Review
    • Container Penetration Testing
    • Cloud Penetration Testing
    • Network Active Directory Penetration Testing
    • AI Penetration Testing
• OSCP, OSCE, OSEE offensive security certifications
• Significant development and engineering backgrounds
• Cloud Service penetration testing tradecraft and methodologies across multiple service providers (e.g. AWS, GCP, etc.).
• Mobile platform and application penetration testing tradecraft and methodologies across both iOS and Android.
• Red/Purple Team tradecraft and methodologies.
• Social engineering in all its forms.
• AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Professional, AWS Certified Security, AWS Certified Advanced Networking, AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
• Network, Database, System administration experience and certifications

Why You’ll Want to Join Us

At Coalfire, you’ll find the support you need to thrive personally and professionally. In many cases, we provide a flexible work model that empowers you to choose when and where you’ll work most effectively – whether you’re at home or an office.

Regardless of location, you’ll experience a company that prioritizes connection and wellbeing and be part of a team where people care about each other and our communities. You’ll have opportunities to join employee resource groups, participate in in-person and virtual events, and more. And you’ll enjoy competitive perks and benefits to support you and your family, like paid parental leave, flexible time off, certification and training reimbursement, digital mental health and wellbeing support membership, and comprehensive insurance options.

• paid parental leave
• flexible time off
• certification and training reimbursement
• digital mental health and wellbeing support membership
• comprehensive insurance options

At Coalfire, equal opportunity and pay equity is integral to the way we do business.

All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, or status as a protected veteran.

Coalfire is committed to providing access, equal opportunity, and reasonable accommodation for individuals with disabilities in employment, its services, programs, and activities.

To request reasonable accommodation to participate in the job application or interview process, contact our Human Resources team at [e-mail].