Senior Consultant

Summary

Join Coalfire, a leading cybersecurity firm, as a Senior Consultant on their FedRAMP Assessment team. You will provide expert advice to clients, conduct audits and assessments, and ensure compliance with security frameworks. This role requires extensive experience in government compliance, cybersecurity frameworks, and IT security solutions. You will lead audits, prepare reports, and mentor team members. Coalfire offers a remote work environment, travel opportunities, and competitive benefits, including flexible time off, certification reimbursement, and comprehensive insurance options.

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree (four-year college or university) in IT or business, or equivalent combination of education and work experience
• Five to ten (5-10) years of experience as a consultant within professional IT services
• Must hold one of the following certifications: CISSP, CISA, CISM, CCSP, CISSP-ISSAP, CISSP-ISSEP, CISSP-ISSMP, CFR, CCISO, GCED, GCIH, GSLC
• Deep experience with government compliance, including FISMA, FedRAMP, and DoD RMF
• Strong knowledge of NIST Special Publications 800-30, 800-37, 800-53
• Experience with every step within the delivery of Certification and Accreditation (C&A) / Assessment and Authorization (A&A) packages that have obtained and maintained full authorization to operate (ATO)
• Experience with virtualization or cloud technologies
• Familiarity with statutes and regulations across multiple industries relevant to IT (e.g. SOX 404, HIPAA, FedRAMP, GLB, Patriot Act)
• Knowledge of information security related solutions, tools, and utilities
• Excellent verbal and written skills
• Willing to travel up to 25%

Responsibilities

• Provides 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
• Leads audits/assessments including audit plan preparation, review of documentation and evidence, evaluation of procedures, and client interviews
• Maintains strong depth of knowledge in one or more cybersecurity frameworks
• Prepare, review and approve assessment reports
• Manage priorities, tasks and hours on projects in conjunction with the project manager to achieve delivery utilization targets
• Ensures quality products and services are delivered on time
• Escalates client and project issues to management in a timely manner to inform and engage the necessary resources to address the issue
• Provide mentorship to team members in areas of audit, assessment, technical review and writing
• Interfaces with clients through entire engagement, interacting with all levels of client organizations
• Establish and maintain positive collaborative relationships with clients and stakeholders
• Continuous professional development in maintaining industry specific certifications. Maintains strong depth of knowledge in the practice area
• Collaborates with project managers, quality management, sales and other delivery team members to drive customer satisfaction and meet project deliverables
• Establishes account relationships and identifies upsell and cross sell opportunities and escalates to sales
• Draft audit programs that sufficiently address both the required objectives of the regulatory body and the complexity of the client environment
• Leads interview and inquiry walkthroughs with clients to determine the conformity of environments against stated requirements
• Assess security vulnerabilities against the appropriate security frameworks
• Pursues 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
• Educate and interpret compliance activities for clients
• Understands how to apply quality standards and adheres to a minimum benchmark for quality assurance throughout the documentation of each work product or deliverable

Preferred Qualifications

Hold Cloud Security focused certifications (AWS, Azure, CCSK, etc.)

Benefits

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