Technical Consultant

AHEAD; Northern (KY); Hybrid; USD 150,000 - 180,000; 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 seeking a Technical Consultant for its Security Practice in the United States. You will support delivery, business development and practice development, collaborating with a diverse team to meet client expectations onsite or remotely.

You will lead or support engagements, produce artifacts, and help scope proposals. Bring 4+ years of consulting, cloud security experience, CNAPP tools Wiz and Prisma Cloud, and proficiency with Terraform, Kubernetes, Docker, and multi-cloud governance.

Qualifications

• Undergraduate degree preferred, but not required.
• 4+ years of consulting experience or equivalent.
• 2 professional certifications aligned to security services.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills.
• Ability to address groups in virtual or in-person settings.

Responsibilities

• Lead or support client delivery engagements onsite or remotely.
• Guide engagements toward scoped objectives and timelines.
• Create and review project deliverables and collateral.
• Present artifacts to client executives and stakeholders.
• Support business development through discovery and proposals.
• Contribute to practice development and thought leadership.

Skills

Cloud security

CNAPP tooling

Multi-cloud governance

Client delivery

Scripting (Python/PowerShell/Bash)

Documentation & artifacts

Mentorship

Education

Undergraduate degree in CS or Business

2 professional certifications

Tools

Wiz

Prisma Cloud

ServiceNow

CI/CD pipelines

Terraform

Kubernetes

Docker

Terraform/Bicep/AWS CloudFormation

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, and do not discriminate based on an individual's race, national origin, color, gender, gender identity, gender expression, sexual orientation, religion, age, disability, marital status, or any other protected characteristic under applicable law, whether actual or perceived.

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

TechnicalConsultants are experienced in information security and/or information security governanceor compliance. Successful candidates support the Security and Compliance Practice in Delivery, Business Development, and Practice Development.

TechnicalConsultants collaborate with a diverse team of consultants with varying skills to meet and exceed client expectations through scoped engagements. They effectivelylead orsupportsmall to medium sizedclient engagements onsite or remotely by guiding engagements toward scopedobjectives. TechnicalConsultants contribute toclient deliveryby executing the necessarytechnical or process-focusedtasks, producing expected collateral, and presenting artifacts at any time throughout an engagement. TechnicalConsultants may be assigned a Project Coordinator role to ensure delivery engagements adhere to the associated timelineand to support project reporting requirements.

TechnicalConsultants can also support business development activities alongside a sales specialist to help qualify client needs and expectations, or more specifically todemonstratea capability or skillset. They may be directly engaged in client-facing interactions toidentifyclient needs and to produce and/or present sales proposalsor support client-visioning workshops.

Lastly, AHEADTechnicalConsultants alsoleveragetheir visibility and experience to contribute to the continuous improvement and maturation of in-practice service offerings and capabilities by proposing ideas for change and executing on ideas that are committed. This includes positivelyimpactingour service portfolio and individuals on the team through thought leadership and mentorship.

Responsibilities

• Client Delivery
• Facilitate sessions of strategy, roadmap, design, and planning workshopsforsmall to medium sizedservice engagements
• Ensure that customer expectations are appropriately set and managed
• 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
• Creation and 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
• 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 management lifecycle to effectively support sales opportunities throughout the duration of a proposal
• Assist PrincipalConsultantsandSecuritySales Specialistswithengagement scoping and the creation of proposal collateral
• Practice Development & Thought Leadership
• Maintain subject matterexpertisein a minimum offoursecurity domains or three security solutions
• Participate in the development, enhancement, and standardization of AHEAD in-practice service offerings
• Enables more than one service capability
• Maintain a broad knowledge and understanding of current and future state IT trends, technologies, and standards
• Lend support and mentorship toAssociates
• 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
• 2+ years of combined 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
• 2+ 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, AWS 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.

Requirements

• Undergraduate degree in Computer Sciences or Business Management preferred, but notrequired
• Minimum of
• 4years consulting experience, orcommensuratework experience
• 2 professional and/or technical certifications, including industry-recognized certifications which align to AHEAD’s Security service portfolio
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills
• Comfortable addressing groups of people in virtual or in-person settings
• Demonstrated Business Acumen
• Ability to solve complex, abstract problems
• Excellent interpersonal skills, good listener, ability to connect with different personalities
• Exhibit Executive presence with leadership characteristics

$150,000 - $180,000 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 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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