Senior Security Consultant

Summary

Join GuidePoint Security as a consultant, delivering successful engagements across multiple Governance offerings and maintaining high customer satisfaction. You will perform maturity assessments, lead engagements for complex organizations, build strong client relationships, and develop security documentation. This role requires a minimum of 3 years of GRC-related consulting experience and a strong understanding of security frameworks like NIST CSF and ISO 27K. Excellent communication skills are essential, along with the ability to work independently and contribute to practice development. GuidePoint offers a remote-first work environment, comprehensive health insurance, paid time off, and other benefits.

Requirements

• Minimum of 3 years of direct experience performing GRC-related consulting services for clients of various verticals, including financial and insurance, retail, healthcare, service providers (SaaS, PaaS, etc.), manufacturing, critical infrastructure/energy, etc
• Minimum of 5 years of combined GRC experience across private/public sector, consulting and/or relevant education
• Strong understanding and working knowledge of security frameworks including, NIST CSF, ISO 27K, and others
• Strong understanding of all the functions within a security program, the ability to assess the maturity of a security program, and how to provide strategic recommendations and direction to senior leadership
• Strong written and oral communication, which includes articulating thoughts and distilling complex problems into digestible information to be consumed by anyone from technical resources to the highest level of management; proven experience communicating clearly to technical levels up through C-Level and Board level
• Strong written communication skills to aid in the creation of customer deliverables
• Strong ability to work independently and multi-task on multiple projects simultaneously
• Personal drive and passion for growing themselves and the GRC Practice

Responsibilities

• Deliver successful consulting engagements across multiple Governance offerings while maintaining a high degree of customer satisfaction
• Perform maturity assessments against NIST CSF, and other best practice security frameworks
• Lead engagements for large and complex multinational organizations with limited supervision
• Establish strong relationships and trust with customers to understand customer’s business environments and requirements
• Develop information security policies, standards, plans, procedures, and other documentation to support customer adopted frameworks and industry standards
• Work with other GuidePoint Security practices as part of a cohesive cross-functional team
• Contribute to practice and offering development
• Remain current on industry developments and incorporate them into service delivery

Preferred Qualifications

• Demonstrated experience with assessing, developing, and implementing data governance and protection programs, including conducting data discovery of data flows and inventories and evaluating the security and privacy controls that protect an organization’s sensitive data
• Demonstrated understanding and working knowledge of various risk assessment methodologies
• Demonstrated experience with driving cybersecurity assessments for M&As for client organizations
• Demonstrated experience leading the maturation of a security program within large organizations
• Publish content and/or perform conference speaking to demonstrate thought leadership
• Standard industry certifications are preferred, such as CISSP, CISA, CISM, CRISC, CBCP, GIAC, etc
• Conference speaking experience

Benefits

• Remote workforce primarily (U.S. based only, some travel may be required for certain positions, working on-site may be required for Federal positions)
• Group Medical Insurance options: Zero Deductible PPO Plan (GuidePoint pays 90% of the premium for employees and 70% for family plans (spouse/children/family) or High Deductible Health Plan with HSA (GuidePoint pays 100% of the employees premiums and 75% for family plans (spouse/children/family) and GPS will contribute in one lump sum: ($500 per EE annually / $1000 per family annually (includes spouse/children/family options)
• Group Dental Insurance: GuidePoint pays 100% of the premium for employees and 75% of family plans
• 12 corporate holidays and a Flexible Time Off (FTO) program
• Healthy mobile phone and home internet allowance
• Eligibility for retirement plan after 2 months at open enrollment
• Pet Benefit Option