Consultant, Cybersecurity

FTI Consulting•Washington, DC

1d•$78,500 - $110,500

About The Position

FTI Consulting is seeking a cybersecurity consultant to support complex, global, and high-profile litigation, arbitration, and investigation work. The role combines risk advisory, investigative, and disputes expertise to deliver holistic solutions for clients. Consultants may work across areas such as intelligence collection, incident response, insider threat analysis, network operations, emerging cyber policy, security operations, malware analysis, cloud security, digital forensics, penetration testing, and application testing. The position involves delivering cybersecurity engagements in a fast-paced, deadline-sensitive environment for sophisticated clients, including leading law firms, financial institutions, and corporations. The consultant will produce concise written reports, communicate findings orally when appropriate, and may manage consultants and investigative research teams. The role also contributes to service strategy, delivery improvements, threat assessment methods, incident analysis, and proposals. FTI supports professional growth through coaching and mentoring, continuous learning, courses, certifications, and programs for key career milestones. The role requires a bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or a related field, the ability to travel to clients and FTI offices as needed, and current U.S. work authorization without visa sponsorship. Compensation is listed as a base salary range of $78,500 to $110,500. Benefits include healthcare coverage, retirement savings, paid leave, family support, and financial protection benefits.

Requirements

Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or a related field.
Ability to travel to clients and FTI office(s) as needed.
Must be currently authorized to work in the United States on a full-time basis; visa sponsorship is not provided.
Proven, hands-on cybersecurity experience.

Nice To Haves

Experience in one or more of intelligence collection, incident response, insider threat analysis, network operations, emerging cyber policy, security operations, malware analysis, specialized cloud expertise, digital forensics, penetration testing, or application testing.
Microsoft 365 environment experience.
AWS or Azure security certification(s).
Identity and Access Management experience.
Networking experience.
Specialized experience in cyber incident response and cyber incident management.

Responsibilities

Perform cybersecurity engagements in a fast-paced, deadline-sensitive environment.
Summarize engagement results accurately and concisely in written reports for sophisticated clients.
Manage consultants on engagements involving teams of investigative researchers.
Provide oral reports to clients when appropriate.
Assist leadership in developing strategies to expand service offerings and improve the efficiency and consistency of service delivery.
Maintain current knowledge of industry trends, threats, methodologies, and core technologies to understand client needs and design technical solutions.
Lead assessment of current threat identification techniques and develop new methodologies and frameworks.
Supervise incident-analysis results, applying analytical skills and cybersecurity knowledge.
Lead modification and enhancement of proposals.