Hiring Security Consultant - US Shift - Immediate To 30 days joiners

Key Responsibilities:

• Serve as a trusted security advisor and designated vCISO for assigned clients, providing executive-level guidance on cybersecurity strategy, risk posture, governance, and compliance initiatives.
• Lead the development, implementation, and continuous improvement of client security policies, procedures, and frameworks aligned with standards such as NIST 800-53/CSF, ISO 27001, HIPAA, CMMC, SOC 2, and others.
• Define and deliver comprehensive security programs, including security risk assessments, maturity roadmaps, control gap analysis, and compliance reporting.
• Guide clients through technical and strategic decision-making related to infrastructure, applications, third-party tools, and data protection strategies.
• Coordinate and oversee vulnerability assessments, penetration tests, and the design and implementation of technical and administrative controls.
• Interpret the results of threat and vulnerability assessments to identify gaps and recommend remediation actions, ensuring alignment with each client's operational risks and compliance obligations.
• Engage with client stakeholders across IT, DevOps, legal, operations, and executive leadership to drive a security-by-design culture across projects and teams.
• Manage and deliver high-impact cybersecurity engagements with a focus on scope definition, schedule, budget, documentation, and successful client outcomes.
• Facilitate client discovery, build proposals, and articulate engagement scope, deliverables, and level of effort required for custom security solutions.
• Identify cross-functional improvement opportunities, recommending enhancements to client systems and infrastructure (hardware, software, networks).
• Communicate technical concepts and security strategy effectively to both technical and non-technical audiences, demonstrating leadership and executive presence.
• Provide mentorship and guidance to junior consultants, engineers, and analysts; when serving in a team lead capacity, manage workload, project direction, and performance feedback for 35 team members.
• Contribute to business development by identifying upselling and cross-selling opportunities based on client needs, emerging security challenges, or regulatory changes.
• Plan and execute projects independently with limited oversight, consistently delivering high-quality advisory services and exceeding client expectations.

Minimum Qualifications:

• Bachelors degree in business, computer science, information systems, engineering, or a relevant discipline, or equivalent experience.
• 10+ years of technical experience.
• 5+ years of Information Security experience.
• Familiarity and experience with Microsoft 365, Azure, and AWS.
• Familiar with Security Frameworks (FedRAMP, ISO, NIST, COBIT, HIPAA/HITECH, PCI, SOC, SOX, etc.) and regulatory requirements.
• Understanding of Data Loss Prevention, Zero Trust, etc.
• Excellent written, verbal, and presentation communication skills.
• Excellent customer service skills. Comfortable in a sales environment and interest in negotiation statements of work.
• Experience collaborating and supporting clients and executives.
• Innovative and analytical problem-solving skills.
• Entrepreneurial and forward-thinking mindset.
• Strong management consulting skills.
• Ability to make decisive decisions and exhibit executive presence.
• Proven ability to lead a team of analysts and engineers effectively.