Consultant

Summary

Join Coalfire as a Security Consultant and contribute to a team assessing client security and compliance against industry standards and best practices. You will leverage your understanding of frameworks to perform audits, assessments, and develop client reports. Collaborate with project managers and other team members to manage project timelines and deliverables. This role requires strong technical skills, excellent communication, and the ability to lead testing sessions. You will also be responsible for reviewing assessment reports, educating clients, and managing priorities to meet delivery targets. Coalfire offers a remote work environment with opportunities for professional development and competitive benefits.

Requirements

• Minimum 2-3 years of experience in the IT industry, with strong familiarity with the applicable NIST Special
• Bachelor's degree (four-year college or university) in IT or business, or equivalent combination of education and work experiencePublications 800-37 Revision 2, 800-53 Revision 5, and 800-53A Revision 5
• Technical and detailed understanding of NIST 800-53 Rev 5 AT, CA, CM, CP, IR, MA, MP, PE, PL, PS, RA, SA, SI control families
• Ability to lead testing sessions for assigned controls
• Ability to independently research a technical topic and develop logical testing approaches to validate 800-53 control implementations
• Ability to assist team members with proper artifact collection and detail to client’s examples of artifacts that will satisfy assessment requirements
• Read and interpret all control families
• Read and interpret firewall rulesets and network/boundary/data flow diagrams
• Strong written and verbal communication skills including the ability to explain technical matters to a non-technical audience
• Strong personal initiative to appropriately manage time and meet deadlines
• Strong Consulting skills; ability to advise and challenge the status quo while building strong relationships
• Ability to build high-trust relationship and credibility quickly
• High attention to detail
• Ability to facilitate meetings to small or large groups
• Diplomatic and broad minded
• Strong technical researcher
• Ability to travel up to 20%

Responsibilities

• Work collaboratively with a team of assessors as a federal compliance specialist (e.g., FedRAMP, NIST 800-171, FISMA, etc.) and assist with the planning of assessment for clients
• Draft audit observations that sufficiently address both the required objectives of the regulatory body and the complexity of the client environment
• Autonomously leads interview and inquiry walkthroughs with clients to determine the conformity of environments against stated requirements
• Assess security vulnerabilities against the appropriate security frameworks
• First-level reviewer of drafted audit planning and reporting materials
• Pursue and corroborates conclusions derived from inquiry procedures with client while ensuring diligent interview notes are captured
• Offline and remote evidence inspection of client provided documentation; appropriately mark artifacts requiring follow-up or additional clarification
• Assess client provided documentation for compliance with a variety of standards
• Prepare and review assessment reports
• Educate and interpret compliance activities for clients
• Manage priorities and tasks to achieve delivery utilization targets
• Ensure quality products and services are delivered on time per Coalfire quality standards
• Continuous professional development; maintain industry specific certifications, depth of knowledge, credentials, and designations
• Collaborate with project managers, quality management and/or other delivery team members to drive customer satisfaction and meet project deliverables
• Establish and maintain positive collaborative relationships with clients and stakeholders
• Identify upsell and cross sell opportunities; escalates to appropriate leadership
• Execute, examine, interview and test procedures in accordance with the appropriate control
• Ensure cyber security policies are adhered to and that required controls are implemented
• Review and assess respective information system security plans to ensure control requirements are met
• Understand how to apply quality standards and adheres to a minimum benchmark for quality assurance throughout the documentation of each work product or deliverable
• Provide advice to customers on issues affecting the scope of work in a manner that provides additional value
• Develop documentation and author recommendations associate with your findings on how to improve the customer’s security posture in accordance with appropriate controls

Preferred Qualifications

• Expertise in security frameworks and regulatory requirements (such as SOC 2, ISO, NIST, COBIT, HIPAA/HITECH, HITRUST or PCI)
• Experience working with technologies hosted via cloud computing environments (e.g., Amazon Web Services, Microsoft Azure, Google Cloud Platform)
• Experience reviewing Nessus output a plus, along with basic knowledge of networking components and various operating systems in a cloud environment, including UNIX and Microsoft
• Expertise in other Security Frameworks (ISO, NIST, COBIT, HIPAA/HITECH, etc.) and regulatory requirements

Benefits

• Remote work environment
• Travel up to 20%
• Paid parental leave
• Flexible time off
• Certification and training reimbursement
• Digital mental health and wellbeing support membership
• Comprehensive insurance options