Technical Consultant - Cloud Security

AHEAD; Chicago (IL); Hybrid; USD 110,000 - 140,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical Insurance

401(k)

Paid Time Off

Parental and caregiver leave

Job summary

AHEAD is seeking a Technical Consultant focused on cloud security and governance. You will lead client engagements, design secure cloud architectures, and help expand AHEAD's security offerings.

Remote and on-site engagements are supported, with emphasis on collaboration across Delivery, Business Development, and Practice Development. Ideal candidates bring hands-on experience with Wiz/Prisma Cloud, AWS/Azure/GCP, and governance frameworks like NIST/ISO 27001.

Qualifications

• Undergraduate degree in Computer Science or Business preferred.
• Minimum 4 years of consulting experience or equivalent.
• Two professional/technical certifications aligned to security portfolio.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills; able to address groups.
• Demonstrated business acumen and executive presence.

Responsibilities

• Client Delivery: lead or support small-to-medium engagements onsite or remotely.
• Facilitate strategy, roadmap, design, and planning workshops with clients.
• Develop proposals, scope projects, and support sales opportunities.
• Mentor Associates and contribute to practice development and thought leadership.
• Maintain multi-cloud security knowledge and map controls for audit/compliance.

Skills

Cloud security

CNAPP

Wiz

Prisma Cloud

Terraform

Docker

Kubernetes

IAM

RBAC

Okta

Entra ID

SIEM

Splunk

NIST

ISO 27001

GDPR

PaC

Python

Education

CS/Business degree

Tools

AWS

Azure

GCP

ServiceNow

CI/CD

Git

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.At AHEAD, 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 embrace all candidates that will contribute to the diversification and enrichment of ideas and perspectives at AHEAD.

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

Technical Consultants collaborate with a diverse team of consultants with varying skills to meet and exceed client expectations through scoped engagements. They effectively lead or support small to medium sized client engagements onsite or remotely by guiding engagements toward scoped objectives. Technical Consultants contribute to client delivery by executing the necessary technical or process-focused tasks, producing expected collateral, and presenting artifacts at any time throughout an engagement. Technical Consultants may be assigned a Project Coordinator role to ensure delivery engagements adhere to the associated timeline and to support project reporting requirements.

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

Lastly, AHEAD Technical Consultants also leverage their 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 positively impacting our service portfolio and individuals on the team through thought leadership and mentorship.

Responsibilities

• Client Delivery
• Facilitate sessions of strategy, roadmap, design, and planning workshops for small to medium sized service engagements
• Ensure that customer expectations are appropriately set and managed
• Drive and manage the objectives, 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 Principal Consultants and Security Sales Specialists with engagement scoping and the creation of proposal collateral
• Practice Development & Thought Leadership
• Maintain subject matter expertise in a minimum of four security 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 to Associates
• Responsibilities:
• 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 to clearly and concisely communicate Wiz/Prisma outputs (criticality, risk, remediation) to technical and business stakeholders.
• Strong track record in 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 with IDaaS solutions 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) and IaC scanning in CI/CD pipelines.
• Proficiency in scripting (Python, PowerShell, Bash) to automate security tasks.
• Experience with containerization (Docker, Kubernetes) and securing workloads at scale.

Requirements

• Undergraduate degree in Computer Sciences or Business Management preferred, but not required
• Minimum of
• 4 years consulting experience, or commensurate work 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

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 for additional details.

Use of AI:

We may use artificial intelligence (AI) tools to support parts of the hiring process, such as reviewing applications, analyzing resumes, assessing responses, or to capture recordings and create transcriptions or summaries during interviews. These tools assist our recruitment team but do not replace human judgment. Final hiring decisions are ultimately made by humans.If you would like more information about how your data is processed, please refer to the Candidate Privacy Notice or contact us at .You may opt-out of the review or analysis of your application and resume by AI tools by using the General Application. Please include the role you wish to apply for in the Additional Information field. You may also choose to opt-out of recording and transcription at any time, including after joining an interview. Candidates will not be penalized for choosing to opt-out.