Principal, FedRAMP Advisory

Summary

Join Coalfire as a Principal Consultant (SME) and become a FedRAMP Advisory subject matter expert. Leverage your technical and business experience to evaluate and enhance the security of complex systems, mentor team members, conduct research on relevant topics, and engage with the community. You will lead on-site client engagements, develop technical content, manage delivery engagements, and serve as a practice SME. This role requires strong communication and collaboration skills, along with extensive experience in IT security and compliance. Coalfire offers a flexible work model, competitive perks, and benefits to support your personal and professional growth.

Requirements

• 7+ years of experience in an IT security audit, assessment, compliance, risk management, or data privacy role
• Knowledge and awareness of the latest information risk, security and compliance innovations, trends, challenges, and solutions
• Knowledge of strategy, privacy and risk standards/frameworks and professional practices (e.g., NIST, ISO, CIS Top 20, ISSA, CSA CMM, Privacy by Design and FAIR, etc.)
• Knowledge of the typical enterprise risk and security operational practices
• Knowledge of information security related solutions, tools, and utilities
• Experience in strategy development, setting direction for team members, influencing both internally and externally
• Experience building common compliance frameworks as well as mapping between different compliance requirements
• Demonstrated breadth of security expertise in various sub domains such as encryption, identity, incident response, etc
• Experience with risk assessment methodologies and risk reporting for executive leadership
• Proven background in clearly writing complex technical documents that can be presented across a varied enterprise corporate audience
• 7+ years of experience working with one, more, or a combination of the following: National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) frameworks (800 series), FISMA, FedRAMP, DoD RMF, StateRAMP
• Strong verbal and written communications skills are a must, as well as the ability to work effectively across internal and external organizations and virtual teams
• Exceptional interpersonal and communication skills and an executive presence - comfortable talking with CIOs, CTOs and CISOs about complex security issues
• Ability to think strategically about business, product, and technical challenges
• Strong initiative

Responsibilities

• Evaluate and enhance the security of complex systems that may impact both risk and compliance for organizations, large and small
• Mentor and develop team members to help grow the team and its capabilities
• Perform research on topics and/or areas affecting client engagements or regulatory requirements to bring clarity to that area which may involve engaging the regulatory bodies to get the clarification. Communicate the information gathered to the entire practice through various mediums such as information repositories, meetings, trainings, etc. Update repositories that have outdated information with updated information
• Engage outwardly into the community through blog posts, technical white papers, forum participation and conference speaking engagements. Engage inwardly to support business and practice growth by developing Sales/Marketing collateral, delivery methodologies and SOPs, train/mentor colleagues as necessary and serve as the SME for all topics related to your technical or compliance area of expertise
• Work with industry and standards bodies to provide information security technical and non-technical expertise
• Work with other teams within Coalfire to drive customer success
• Scope and lead on-site engagements with clients. This includes leading pre-sales calls, onsite visits, understanding customer security and compliance requirements and environments, and proposing and delivering packaged offerings or custom solution engagements
• Develop technical content, such as security plans, procedures, policies, and white papers that can be used by our clients to assist them in elevating/building out their security and compliance programs
• Lead delivery engagements including on-site projects working with clients to build out compliance roadmaps, architecture guidance, gap assessments, etc
• Manage delivery engagements by providing project status updates to applicable stakeholders, identifying showstoppers and roadblocks to project success, etc
• Collaborate with Coalfire engineering, support, and business teams to convey partner and customer feedback
• Serve as the practice subject matter expert (SME) for escalations, sales/marketing support, driving practice profitability and revenue
• Provide Delivery Team Support, including identifying process improvements, training delivery personnel on methodologies/tools and quality topics, and mentoring delivery personnel
• Development of industry-wide service line thought leadership through: Authoring methodologies, templates, white papers, work instructions, guidelines, forms, tools
• Developing and delivering industry specific training, including speaking/presenting at conferences, creating webinars
• Support management of client satisfaction at all phases of the client relationship
• Ensure continuous professional development by maintaining industry specific certifications
• Maintain strong depth of knowledge in the practice area
• Collaborate with project managers, quality management, sales, and other delivery team members to drive customer satisfaction and meet project deliverables
• Establish account relationships and identifies upsell and cross sell opportunities and escalates to sales

Preferred Qualifications

• Big Four Advisory/Consulting Experience
• DevSecOps Experience
• AWS, Azure, Google Cloud Platform certification(s)
• OpenFair or related certification, CCBP
• Vendor certifications for applicable product solution sets

Benefits

• Flexible work model
• Paid parental leave
• Flexible time off
• Certification and training reimbursement
• Digital mental health and wellbeing support membership
• Comprehensive insurance options