Senior Technical Consultant

AHEAD; United States; Remote; USD 170,000 - 220,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical Insurance

Dental Insurance

Vision Insurance

401(k)

Paid holidays

Paid time off

Parental and caregiver leave

Job summary

AHEAD is seeking Sr. Technical Consultants to lead security-focused engagements for enterprise clients. You will drive client delivery, workshops, and roadmap discussions, aligning security controls with cloud-native platforms.

Ideal candidates have 5+ years in CNAPP, cloud security, and governance, with strong collaboration across delivery, sales, and thought leadership. Remote friendly in the USA.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of hands-on CNAPP experience with Wiz and Prisma Cloud.
• Ability to translate risk strategy into cloud security controls.
• Experience with multi-cloud governance and IaC tooling.

Responsibilities

• Lead client delivery and strategy sessions for security engagements.
• Guide engagements toward scoped objectives and issue resolution.
• Develop deliverables and present artifacts to client executives.
• Support business development and proposal collateral.

Skills

Cloud Security Architecture

Risk Strategy

Multi-cloud Governance

CNAPP Tooling

SaaS Security

Automation & IaC

Scripting (Python/PowerShell)

Security Compliance

Stakeholder Communication

Education

Tools

Wiz

Prisma Cloud

ServiceNow

CI/CD pipelines

Okta / Entra ID

Job description

AHEAD builds platforms for digital business. By weaving together advances in cloud infrastructure, automation and analytics, and software delivery, we help enterprises deliver on the promise of digital transformation.

AtAHEAD, we prioritize creating a culture of belonging,where all perspectives and voices are represented, valued, respected, and heard. We create spaces to empower everyone to speak up, make change, and drive the culture at AHEAD.

We are an equal opportunity employer,anddo not discriminatebased onan individual’s race, national origin, color, gender, gender identity, gender expression, sexual orientation, religion, age, disability, maritalstatus,or any other protected characteristic under applicable law, whether actual or perceived.

We embraceall candidatesthatwillcontribute to the diversification and enrichment of ideas andperspectives atAHEAD.

Sr.TechnicalConsultants are experienced experts in information securityand/or information security governanceor compliance.Successful candidates supportthe Security and Compliance Practice in Delivery, Business Development, and Practice Development.

Sr.TechnicalConsultantscollaborate with a diverse team of consultants with varying skills to meet and exceed client expectations through scoped engagements. Theyeffectively support client engagements onsite or remotelyby guiding engagements toward scopedobjectivesand troubleshooting to effectively resolve project risks or issues.Sr. Consultants contribute to engagements byexecutingthe necessaryproject tasks,producingexpected collateral, andpresentingartifactsat any time throughout an engagement.

Sr.TechnicalConsultantscan also support business developmentactivitiesalongside a sales specialistto help qualify client needs and expectations, or morespecifically todemonstratea capability or skillset.They maybe directly engaged in client-facing interactions toidentifyclient needs and toproduceand/or present sales proposals.

Lastly, AHEAD Sr.TechnicalConsultants alsoleveragetheir visibility and experience to contributeto the continuous improvement and maturation of in-practice service offerings and capabilitiesby proposing ideas for change and executing on ideas that are committed.This includespositivelyimpactingour service portfolioand individuals on theteam through thought leadership and mentorship.

Responsibilities

• Client Delivery

• Facilitate sessions of strategy, roadmap, design, and planning workshopsfor medium to large service engagements

• Ensure that customer expectations are appropriately set and managed

• Leadproject engagementteamsthroughthe delivery of consulting service offerings

• Drive and manage theobjectives, requirements gathering, project tasks/milestone, project status, dependencies, and timelines, to ensure engagements are delivered successfully and on time while meeting the business objectives

• Breaks downrisks or issuesinto manageable segments,identifiesthe factors that affecta problemanddeterminehow best to approach

• Creationand finalization of project deliverables, may perform peer review for collateral developed by others on a delivery team

• Presentation of deliverables to client executive management

• Knowledge of AHEAD’s project lifecycle management activities to effectively support delivery engagements throughout the duration of a project

• Act as the Engagement Lead on customer facing projects, when assigned

• Business Development

• Support business development pursuits through client discovery meetings

• Represent service offerings during the sales cycle, including project scoping, proposal development, and presenting proposals to clients

• Knowledge of AHEAD’s sales managementlifecycle to effectively support sales opportunities throughout the duration of a proposal

• Assist PrincipalConsultantswithengagement scopingand thecreation of proposal collateral

• Familiarity with AHEAD’s enterprise service portfolio toidentifyopportunities for cross-practice collaboration

• Practice Development & Thought Leadership

• Maintainsubject matterexpertisein a minimum ofeightsecurity domains or three security solutions

• Participate in the development,enhancement, and standardizationof AHEADin-practiceserviceofferings

• Owns and/or enables more than one service capability

• Process-focusedtechnology thought leader and evangelist

• Maintain a broad knowledge and understanding of current and future state IT trends, technologies, and standards

• Lend supportand mentorship to others

Knowledge, Skills and Abilities

• Cloud Security Architecture & Risk Strategy:

• Proven experience in reviewing and implementing secure cloud reference architectures and landing zones.

• Ability to translate risk strategy by mapping traditional lift-and-shift approaches into cloud-native security controls.

• Strong understanding of multi-cloud governance models including Infrastructure-as-Code (IaC), policy-as-code (PaC), tagging standards, and multi-account strategies.

• CNAPP Tooling:

• 5+ years of hands‑on experience with CNAPP tools, particularly Wiz and Prisma Cloud.

• Expertise in integrating Wiz and Prisma Cloud with enterprise tooling such as ServiceNow, CI/CD pipelines, and ticketing/alerting workflows.

• Able toclearly and concisely communicate Wiz/Prisma outputs (criticality, risk, remediation)to technical and business stakeholders.

• Strongtrack recordin deploying and instantiating Prisma Cloud.

• Cloud Platforms & Native Security Controls:

• 5+ years of experience working with AWS, Azure, and/or GCP.

• Familiarity with cloud-native security services such as AWS Security Hub, Microsoft Defender for Cloud, and Google Security Command Center.

• Hands‑on knowledge of cloud identity (IAM, Federation, RBAC) across multi-cloud environments.

• Familiarity withIDaaSsolutions such as Okta and Entra ID.

• Security Frameworks & Governance:

• Strong knowledge of security standards and frameworks: CIS Benchmarks, NIST, FedRAMP, ISO 27001, GDPR.

• Ability to design and map cloud-specific controls for audit and compliance needs.

• Experience with SIEM integration (Splunk, Sentinel, Chronicle) and cloud-native detection capabilities.

• Automation,IaC& Container Security:

• Ability to read, understand, and apply Infrastructure-as-Code (Terraform, Bicep, CloudFormation).

• Familiarity with policy-as-code tooling (OPA, Sentinel) andIaCscanning in CI/CD pipelines.

• Proficiencyin scripting (Python, PowerShell, Bash) to automate security tasks.

• Experience with containerization (Docker, Kubernetes) andsecuringworkloads at scale.

$170,000 - $220,000 a year

The compensation range indicated in this posting reflects the On-Target Earnings (“OTE”) for this role, which includes a base salary and any applicable target bonus amount. This OTE range may vary based on the candidate’s relevant experience, qualifications, and geographic location.

Why AHEAD:

Through our daily work and internal groups like Moving Women AHEAD and RISE AHEAD, we value and benefit from diversity of people, ideas, experience, and everything in between.

We fuel growth by stacking our office with top-notch technologies in a multi-million-dollar lab, by encouraging cross department training and development, sponsoring certifications and credentials for continued learning.

USA Employment Benefits include:

• Medical, Dental, and Vision Insurance

• 401(k)

• Paid company holidays

• Paid time off

• Paid parental and caregiver leave

• Plus more! See benefits https://www.aheadbenefits.com/ for additional details.

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