Senior Associate Technical Consultant - CTEM / Vulnerability Management Engineer

AHEAD

2d•$100,000 - $120,000

About The Position

AHEAD is hiring a Senior Associate Technical Consultant to support client engagements focused on Continuous Threat Exposure Management (CTEM), vulnerability management, secure architecture, and related security program design. The role works across diverse consulting teams and may handle multiple client engagements, including exposure management assessments, vulnerability management program reviews, and remediation strategy development, or support larger engagements. The consultant contributes to technical and process-focused delivery, produces architectural, security, and program artifacts, and presents findings and recommendations to clients. Responsibilities may also include coordinating project timelines, reporting, and alignment with engagement objectives. The role supports business development through client discovery, solution feasibility input, proposal work, and visioning workshops, and contributes to the improvement of AHEAD’s service offerings, architectural standards, and design patterns through thought leadership and mentorship.

Requirements

Demonstrated consulting experience in secure architecture, vulnerability management, CTEM, or related security program design within complex enterprise environments.
Excellent verbal and written communication skills and high proficiency with Microsoft Office Suite.
Comfort addressing groups in virtual or in-person settings.
Ability to solve complex, abstract problems.
Excellent interpersonal skills, including listening and connecting with people with different personalities.

Nice To Haves

Undergraduate technical degree in Engineering, Computer Science, IT Management, or Cybersecurity.

Responsibilities

Participate in assessments of CTEM and vulnerability management programs, including asset discovery and inventory, exposure identification, vulnerability scanning and assessment, risk-based prioritization, remediation workflows, and validation practices.
Request and analyze evidence concerning program maturity, technology configurations, asset coverage, scanning practices, remediation processes, exception handling, reporting, and governance.
Document detailed observations and practical recommendations based on risk to client environments and programs.
Develop remediation strategies and roadmaps that account for exposure severity, exploitability, business criticality, asset context, and operational dependencies.
Advise clients on attack-surface visibility, exposure prioritization, and coordinating remediation across infrastructure, cloud, applications, and security teams.
Support the design and implementation of vulnerability and exposure management processes, including roles, ownership, service levels, metrics, and reporting.
Evaluate security tools and integrations for asset discovery, vulnerability assessment, exposure prioritization, remediation tracking, and validation.
Analyze client environments and dependencies to inform risk prioritization, remediation sequencing, and implementation planning.
Help develop CTEM strategies, vulnerability management plans, procedures, runbooks, and playbooks.
Participate in strategy, roadmap, design, and planning workshops for small- to medium-sized engagements.
Set and manage customer expectations and drive requirements, project tasks, milestones, status, dependencies, and timelines to support successful, on-time delivery.
Contribute to solution architecture and design discussions, including secure technology architectures and operating models supporting CTEM, vulnerability management, and risk reduction.
Consult on solution designs with strong security controls, clear ownership, effective integrations, and operational exposure-management workflows.
Create and finalize project deliverables and peer-review work produced by other delivery-team members.
Present deliverables to client executive management and support engagements throughout AHEAD’s project lifecycle.
Support business development through client discovery meetings, project scoping, proposal development, proposal presentations, and consultative input on secure architecture, CTEM, vulnerability management, and solution feasibility.
Support sales opportunities throughout AHEAD’s sales management lifecycle.
Maintain subject matter expertise in at least four security domains or three security solutions.
Help develop, enhance, and standardize service offerings, particularly those related to CTEM, vulnerability management, exposure prioritization, and remediation strategy.
Enable more than one service capability and maintain broad knowledge of current and future IT trends, technologies, and standards.
Provide support and mentorship to junior consultants and peers.