Senior Security Consultant

IBM; Raleigh (NC); Remote; USD 110,000 - 160,000; Full time

Job summary

IBM Consulting is seeking a Security Consultant specializing in Intelligence & Operations to help Client IT understand and address security issues. You will articulate strategies and risk-based mitigations, leveraging QRadar, SIEM, SOAR and EDR to defend client environments.

This role can be performed from anywhere in the US. You'll collaborate with clients to enhance security posture, analyze cyber threats, and advise on security intelligence programs while communicating complex concepts in

Qualifications

• Experience articulating security strategies and mitigation measures.

Responsibilities

• Develop Security Strategies: develop and recommend security strategies, programs and mitigation measures.

Skills

Security intelligence & ops

Counter-threat intelligence

Security strategy development

Cyber threat analysis

Threat hunting

Tools

QRadar

SIEM

SOAR

EDR

AI/ML

Job description

Introduction

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.

Introduction

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.

Your Role And Responsibilities

As a Security Consultant specializing in Intelligence & Operations, you play a crucial role in helping Client IT understand and address key security issues, exposures, and vulnerabilities. Your expertise in security intelligence and operations enables you to articulate effective security strategies and mitigation measures.

Your Primary Responsibilities Will Include

• Develop Security Strategies: Develop and recommend effective security strategies, programs, plans, and mitigation measures by applying security principles, counter-threat intelligence, and your understanding of security intelligence and operations.
• Enhance Security Posture: Enhance Client IT's security posture through proactive threat hunting and intelligence-driven defense strategies, leveraging your deep knowledge of security intelligence and operations.
• Articulate IBM's SIOC and SIEM: Articulate IBM's SIOC, SIEM, and EDR points of view, including financial implications, to help clients understand the value of security intelligence and operations.
• Analyze Cyber Threats: Analyze various cyber threats and develop effective mitigation measures, utilizing your hands-on experience with tools like QRadar.
• Provide Expert Guidance: Provide expert guidance to clients on security intelligence and operations, enabling them to make informed decisions about their security posture.

This job can be performed from anywhere in the US.

Required Technical And Professional Expertise

• Deep Knowledge of Security Intelligence and Operations: Experience with security intelligence and operations, enabling the articulation of effective security strategies and mitigation measures, including financial implications.
• Hands-on Experience with Security Tools: Experience working with AI/ML, SIEM, SOAR, and EDR tools to analyze cyber threats and develop effective mitigation measures.
• Counter-Threat Intelligence: Experience with counter-threat intelligence, applying security principles to develop and recommend effective security strategies, programs, plans, and mitigation measures.
• Security Strategy Development: Experience developing and recommending effective security strategies, programs, plans, and mitigation measures to enhance security posture.
• Cyber Threat Analysis: Experience analyzing various cyber threats to develop effective mitigation measures and provide expert guidance on security intelligence and operations.

Preferred Technical And Professional Experience

• Advanced Threat Analysis: Experience with analyzing complex cyber threats, including hands-on experience with AI/ML, SIEM, SOAR, and EDR tools to develop effective mitigation measures and provide expert guidance on security intelligence and operations.
• Financial Implication Understanding: Experience articulating the financial implications of security intelligence and operations, enabling clients to make informed decisions about their security posture.
• Proactive Threat Hunting: Experience with proactive threat hunting and intelligence-driven defense strategies to enhance Client IT's security posture.