Senior Consultant Ii Ssi - Remote | Usa 🔥
In your role at Optiv, you’ll be inspired by a team of the brightest business and technical minds in cybersecurity. We are passionate champions for our clients and know from experience that the best solutions for our clients’ needs come from working hard together. As part of our team, your voice matters, and you will do important work that has an impact, on people, businesses, and nations. Our industry and our company move fast, and you can be sure that you will always have room to learn and grow. We’re proud of our team and the important work we do to build confidence for a more connected world.
Who are we looking for:
The Senior Consultant will be pivotal to problem definition and discovery of the overall solution and guide teams on project processes, deliverables. This individual will drive the technical relationship with our customers and partners by providing advanced architecture, implementation and operational support. Acts as overall industry leaders and leaders of technical excellence providing exceptional services and support to strategic clients setting the bar for others to aspire to.
How you will make an impact:
- Work with customers to help them articulate their business requirements and how those requirements translate into security features and functionality.
- Architect solutions to ensure that the customer's risk transformation requirements are met.
- Assist with development of cyber engagement plans for customers which will enable them to execute upon strategies.
- Rationalize different security solutions against requirements, risk, and constraints.
- Undertake Threat, Vulnerability and Risk analysis methodologies/techniques and the interpretation/application of their output in the definition of Security Architectures.
- Recognized expert across multiple solution areas
- Able to deliver and lead other consultants in complex projects
- Able to present to large groups. Speaks as an authority.
- Can handle difficult questions and consistently wins support from client audiences.
- Can modify and change methodologies as required.
- Broad awareness of the security/ technology space as a whole
- Contributor to industry groups and/or publications
Qualifications for success:
- Bachelor's degree and approximately 7-12 years of related work experience.
- Approximately 5-10 years of technical architecture experience
- Understanding of relevant industry standards. Specifically, IEC 62443, NERC-CIP and NIST 800.82 [1]
- Hands on experience using firewalls, AV, routers, switches, SIEM, hardware SCADA platforms, and/or IPSec tunnels in an industrial setting.
- Very knowledgeable of multiple security concepts and methods such as vulnerability assessments, data classification, privacy assessments, incident response, security policy creation, enterprise security strategies, architectures and governance.
- Understand the Services business and impact decisions have to the organization holistically
- Strong understanding of networking (TCP/IP, OSI model, Purdue), operating system fundamentals (Windows, UNIX, mainframe), security technologies (firewalls, IDS/IPS, etc.).
- Strong understanding of regulatory requirements and compliance issues affecting clients related to privacy and data protection, specifically NERC-CIP and IEC 62443
- Technical architecture experience integrating data protection software into clients' infrastructure; network architecture design, implementation and administration.
- Working knowledge of operating systems, virtual machine environments, mainframe security packages, and relational database management systems.
- Willingness to travel to meet client needs
- Valid driver's license in the US or Canada and a valid passport required
- The successful candidate must hold or be willing to pursue related professional certifications such as the GICSP, CISSP, CISM and/or CISA.
- Strong interpersonal skills
- Strong written and presentational skills; ability to clearly communicate complex messages to a variety of audiences
- Possess high standard of integrity and confidentiality
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Optiv is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants for employment will be considered without regard to race, color, religion, sex, gender identity, sexual orientation, national origin, status as an individual with a disability, veteran status, or any other basis protected by federal, state, or local law.