Senior Technical Consultant - CTEM / Vulnerability Management Engineer

AHEAD

2d•$170,000 - $180,000

About The Position

AHEAD is seeking a Senior Technical Consultant experienced in the Identify and Protect security functions, including Continuous Threat Exposure Management (CTEM), vulnerability management, and secure architecture. The consultant leads diverse teams on scoped client engagements and may lead multiple engagements—such as exposure management assessments, vulnerability management program reviews, and remediation strategy development—or support larger engagements. The role contributes to client delivery through technical and process-focused work, production of architectural, security, and program artifacts, and presentation of findings and recommendations. The consultant may coordinate project timelines, reporting, and alignment to objectives, and is a primary leader of AHEAD security delivery teams responsible for assessments, designs, and operational documentation. The consultant also supports business development alongside sales specialists by qualifying client needs, evaluating security architecture and solution feasibility, participating in client-facing discovery, articulating future-state capabilities, and developing or presenting proposals and visioning workshops. The role contributes to improving AHEAD’s service offerings and capabilities through architectural standards, design patterns, thought leadership, and mentorship. The posted compensation range is $170,000–$180,000 in on-target earnings, including base salary and any applicable target bonus. The range may vary according to relevant experience, qualifications, and geographic location.

Requirements

Minimum of 10 years of relevant professional experience, including experience leading technical work or client engagements.
Three professional and/or technical certifications, including industry-recognized certifications aligned with AHEAD’s Security service portfolio.
Demonstrated consulting experience in secure architecture, vulnerability management, CTEM, or related security program design in complex enterprise environments.
Excellent verbal and written communication skills and high proficiency in Microsoft Office Suite.
Comfort addressing groups in virtual or in-person settings.
Ability to solve complex, abstract problems.
Excellent interpersonal skills, strong listening ability, and ability to connect with different personalities.

Nice To Haves

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

Responsibilities

Lead client assessments of CTEM and vulnerability management programs, reviewing asset discovery and inventory, exposure identification, scanning and assessment, risk-based prioritization, remediation workflows, and validation practices.
Request and analyze evidence of program maturity, technology configurations, asset coverage, scanning practices, remediation processes, exception handling, reporting, and governance.
Document detailed observations and practical recommendations based on risks 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 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.
Lead and participate in developing CTEM strategies, vulnerability management plans, procedures, runbooks, and playbooks.
Facilitate strategy, roadmap, design, and planning workshops for small- to medium-sized engagements.
Set and manage customer expectations and drive objectives, requirements gathering, tasks, milestones, status, dependencies, and timelines for successful delivery.
Lead or contribute to solution architecture and design discussions, including secure technology architectures and operating models supporting client CTEM, vulnerability management, and risk-reduction objectives.
Consult on solution designs with strong security controls, clear ownership, effective integrations, and operational exposure-identification, prioritization, and remediation workflows.
Create and finalize project deliverables, peer-reviewing collateral developed by others, and present deliverables to client executive management.
Apply AHEAD project lifecycle management practices throughout delivery engagements.
Support business development through client discovery meetings, service-offering representation, project scoping, proposal development, and proposal presentations.
Provide consultative input during sales cycles on secure architecture, CTEM and vulnerability management strategies, and solution feasibility.
Apply AHEAD sales management lifecycle practices and assist Principal Consultants and Security Sales Specialists with scoping and proposal collateral.
Maintain subject-matter expertise in at least four security domains or three security solutions.
Participate in developing, enhancing, and standardizing service offerings related primarily 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 technical leadership, mentoring, and guidance to junior consultants and peers, and coordinate project teams as appropriate.