Cybersecurity Senior Consultant
About The Position
West Monroe is excited to hire a Senior Consultant for our growing Cybersecurity Practice to focus on IT security advisory & solutions delivery across various industries! Project work could include security controls audits/recommendations, risk advisory, compliance & privacy assessments, threat hunting, incident response planning, M&A/PE due diligence, and/or cybersecurity strategy & operations. This is a rewarding opportunity to join a high-growth, employee-centric firm and play a pivotal role in improving IT security posture across complex, enterprise client environments.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in relevant field preferred, or equivalent experience required
- Consulting firm/industry experience preferred
- 3-6+ years of experience in Cybersecurity, Information Security, and/or Tech Consulting
- Background in any common cybersecurity domains – risk & compliance, privacy, strategy & operations, incident response, threat hunting, cloud security, application security, etc.
- Experience working on security risk & controls assessment projects, leveraging industry-accepted frameworks such as NIST CSF
- Understanding of high-level application, database, and network security principles for risk identification, qualification, mitigation, and analysis
- Comfortable conveying complex cybersecurity concepts to both technical and non-technical audiences
- Proficient verbal, presentation/facilitation, and written communication skills
- Willingness to travel for client engagements (up to 50%)
- Hybrid role (2x per week in office)
- Must be eligible to work in US without sponsorship
Responsibilities
- Provide strategic cybersecurity advisory, due diligence, and consulting services for enterprise clients, ranging from policy definition to implementation, adoption, and enforcement
- Contribute to/deliver our CAPE program – Cybersecurity Advisory for Private Equity – to provide ongoing visibility into security practices, risks, and threats across a PE firm’s entire asset portfolio
- Leverage industry-accepted frameworks to lead current-state risk and controls review of existing security organizations— compliance adherence, processes, technologies— while developing implementation strategies and roadmaps to harden the environment
- Perform assessments and audits, identify risks, highlight vulnerabilities, and determine client’s ability to protect against attacks, detect active threats, and respond/recover from incidents
- Utilize Intellio™ Hunt, our homegrown proprietary software, along with other tools to search for indicators of compromise across cloud and on-premise environments, providing insight into past and current incidents
- Promote thought leadership in emerging cybersecurity technologies and best practices through activities like blogs, white papers, attending industry events, and Center of Excellence contributions
- Act as coach and mentor to junior cybersecurity consultants
Benefits
- Employees (and their families) are covered by medical, dental, vision, and basic life insurance.
- Employees are able to enroll in our company’s 401k plan, purchase shares from our employee stock ownership program and be eligible to receive annual bonuses.
- Employees will also receive unlimited flexible time off and ten paid holidays throughout the calendar year.
- Eligibility for ten weeks of paid parental leave will also be available upon hire date.
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Mid Level
Number of Employees
501-1,000 employees
