Technical Consultant
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
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.
Responsibilities:
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