Senior Security Technical Consultant WizPrisma Cloud

Work set-up: 
Full Remote
Contract: 
Full time
Experience: 
Senior (5-10 years)
Work from: 
United States

Offer summary

Qualifications:

Minimum of 7 years of consulting experience or equivalent work experience., Proven expertise with CNAPP tools, especially Wiz and Prisma Cloud, with 5+ years of hands-on experience., Strong knowledge of cloud security architecture, multi-cloud governance, and security controls., Professional certifications related to security and cloud technologies..

Key responsibilities:

  • Lead and manage client security engagements, including workshops and project delivery.
  • Support business development activities by qualifying client needs and presenting proposals.
  • Contribute to the development and enhancement of security service offerings and thought leadership.
  • Maintain expertise in security domains and support continuous improvement of practice capabilities.

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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 individuals 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.

Sr. Technical Consultants are experienced experts in information security andor information security governance or compliance. Successful candidates support the Security and Compliance Practice in Delivery, Business Development, and Practice Development.
Sr. Technical Consultants collaborate with a diverse team of consultants with varying skills to meet and exceed client expectations through scoped engagements. They effectively support client engagements onsite or remotely by guiding engagements toward scoped objectives and troubleshooting to effectively resolve project risks or issues. Sr. Consultants contribute to engagements by executing the necessary project tasks, producing expected collateral, and presenting artifacts at any time throughout an engagement.
Sr. 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 clientfacing interactions to identify client needs and to produce andor present sales proposals.
Lastly, AHEAD Sr. Technical Consultants also leverage their visibility and experience to contribute to the continuous improvement and maturation of inpractice 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 medium to large service engagements
  • Ensure that customer expectations are appropriately set and managed
  • Lead project engagement teams through the delivery of consulting service offerings
  • Drive and manage the objectives, requirements gathering, project tasksmilestone, project status, dependencies, and timelines, to ensure engagements are delivered successfully and on time while meeting the business objectives
  • Breaks down risks or issues into manageable segments, identifies the factors that affect a problem and determine how best to approach
  • 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
  • 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 management lifecycle to effectively support sales opportunities throughout the duration of a proposal
  • Assist Principal Consultants with engagement scoping and the creation of proposal collateral
  • Familiarity with AHEAD’s enterprise service portfolio to identify opportunities for crosspractice collaboration

  • Practice Development & Thought Leadership
  • Maintain subject matter expertise in a minimum of eight security domains or three security solutions
  • Participate in the development, enhancement, and standardization of AHEAD inpractice service offerings
  • Owns andor enables more than one service capability
  • Processfocused technology thought leader and evangelist
  • Maintain a broad knowledge and understanding of current and future state IT trends, technologies, and standards
  • Lend support and mentorship to others

  • KnowledgeSkillsAbilities
  • 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 liftandshift approaches into cloudnative security controls.
  • Strong understanding of multicloud governance models, including InfrastructureasCode (IaC), policyascode (PaC), tagging standards, and multiaccount strategies.

  • CNAPP Tooling:
  • 5+ years of combined handson experience with CNAPP tools, particularly Wiz and Prisma Cloud.
  • Expertise in integrating Wiz and Prisma Cloud with enterprise tooling such as ServiceNow, CICD pipelines, and ticketingalerting workflows.
  • Able to clearly and concisely communicate WizPrisma outputs (criticality, risk, remediation) to technical and business stakeholders.
  • Strong track record in deploying and instantiating Prisma Cloud.

  • Cloud Platforms & Native Security Controls:
  • 5+ years of experience working with AWS, Azure, andor GCP.
  • Familiarity with cloudnative security services such as AWS Security Hub, Microsoft Defender for Cloud, and Google Security Command Center.
  • Handson knowledge of cloud identity (IAM, Federation, RBAC) across multicloud 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 cloudspecific controls for audit and compliance needs.
  • Experience with SIEM integration (Splunk, Sentinel, Chronicle) and cloudnative detection capabilities.

  • Automation, IaC & Container Security:
  • Ability to read, understand, and apply InfrastructureasCode (Terraform, Bicep, AWS CloudFormation).
  • Familiarity with policyascode tooling (OPA, Sentinel) and IaC scanning in CICD pipelines.
  • Proficiency in scripting (Python, PowerShell, Bash) to automate security tasks.
  • Experience with containerization (Docker, Kubernetes) and securing workloads at scale.

  • Qualifications
  • Undergraduate degree in Computer Sciences or Business Management preferred, but not required
  • Minimum of 3 years of leadership experience
  • 7+ years consulting experience, or commensurate work experience
  • 2 professional andor technical certifications, including industryrecognized certifications which align to AHEAD’s Security service portfolio
  • Excellent verbal and written communication skills
  • Comfortable addressing groups of people in virtual or inperson 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
  • Demonstrated experience as a technology change agent
  • 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 topnotch technologies in a multimilliondollar lab, by encouraging cross department training and development, sponsoring certifications and credentials for continued learning.
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    Experience

    Level of experience: Senior (5-10 years)
    Spoken language(s):
    English
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    Hard Skills

    Application FrameworksCloud Security ArchitectureRisk ManagementAutomated Information SystemsMicrosoft AzureContainer SecurityScriptingAWS Cloud ServicesgRPCInfrastructure as Code (IaC)KubernetesSplunkFedRAMPTerraformServiceNowOktaAWS CloudFormationAzure SecurityCI/CDGeneral Data Protection Regulation (GDPR)Docker (Software)ISO/IEC 27000 SeriesMoz (SEO Software)Prisma CloudNIST 800

    Other Skills

    • Communication
    • Leadership
    • Business Acumen
    • Social Skills
    • Problem Solving
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