Senior CTEM & Vulnerability Management Architect

AHEAD; Oregon; Hybrid; USD 170,000 - 180,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical, Dental, and Vision Insurance

401(k)

Paid holidays

Paid time off

Paid parental and caregiver leave

Job summary

AHEAD is a leading security advisory and delivery firm in the United States seeking a Senior Security Consultant to guide CTEM and vulnerability management engagements across on-premises, cloud, and applications. You will lead client projects, review asset discovery, conduct risk-based prioritization, and develop remediation strategies that reduce risk.

You will mentor teams, contribute to business development, and help mature service offerings.

Qualifications

• Undergraduate technical degree in Engineering, Computer Science, IT Management, or Cybersecurity preferred, but not required.
• Minimum of 10 years of professional, relevant experience, including experience leading technical work or client engagements.
• Three professional and/or technical certifications aligning to AHEAD’s Security service portfolio.
• Demonstrated experience consulting on secure architecture, vulnerability management, CTEM, or related security program design within complex enterprise environments.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills (must be highly proficient in Microsoft Office Suite).
• Comfortable addressing groups of people in virtual or in-person settings.
• Ability to solve complex, abstract problems.
• Excellent interpersonal skills, good listener, ability to connect with different personalities.

Responsibilities

• Lead client assessments of CTEM and vulnerability management programs, including reviewing asset discovery and inventory, exposure identification, vulnerability scanning and assessment, risk-based prioritization, remediation workflows, and validation practices.
• Request and analyze evidence of program maturity, relevant technology configurations, asset coverage, scanning practices, remediation processes, exception handling, reporting, and governance.
• Write consistent, detailed observations and practical recommendations based on risk to client environments and programs.
• Develop actionable remediation strategies and roadmaps that account for exposure severity, exploitability, business criticality, asset context, and operational dependencies.
• Advise clients on improving visibility into their attack surface, prioritizing exposures, and coordinating remediation across infrastructure, cloud, applications, and security teams.
• Support the design and implementation of vulnerability management and exposure management processes, including roles, ownership, service levels, metrics, and reporting.
• Evaluate security tools and integrations that support asset discovery, vulnerability assessment, exposure prioritization, remediation tracking, and validation.
• Perform technical analysis of client environments and dependencies to inform risk prioritization, remediation sequencing, and implementation planning.
• Lead and participate in the development of CTEM strategies, vulnerability management plans, procedures, runbooks, and playbooks.
• Facilitate strategy, roadmap, design, and planning workshops for small to medium-sized engagements, anchoring discussions in architectural principles, security patterns, and measurable outcomes.
• Ensure customer expectations are appropriately set and managed.
• Drive and manage objectives, requirements gathering, project tasks and milestones, project status, dependencies, and timelines to ensure successful, on-time delivery aligned to business objectives.
• Lead or contribute to solution architecture and design discussions, including the development of secure technology architectures and operating models that support clients’ CTEM, vulnerability management, and risk-reduction objectives.
• Consult on solution designs that employ strong security controls, clearly defined ownership, effective integrations, and operational workflows for identifying, prioritizing, and remediating exposures.
• Create and finalize project deliverables, including peer review for collateral developed by others on a delivery team.
• Present deliverables to client executive management.
• Apply knowledge of AHEAD’s project lifecycle management activities to effectively support delivery engagements throughout the duration of a project.

Skills

Leadership

Communication

Problem solving

Interpersonal skills

Presentation

Education

Undergraduate technical degree

Tools

Microsoft Office

Job description

AHEAD is a leading security advisory and delivery firm in the United States seeking a Senior Security Consultant to guide CTEM and vulnerability management engagements across on-premises, cloud, and applications. You will lead client projects, review asset discovery, conduct risk-based prioritization, and develop remediation strategies that reduce risk.

You will mentor teams, contribute to business development, and help mature service offerings.