Senior Consultant – Cyber Resilience

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🕒 5 days ago

🇺🇸 United States – Remote

💵 $160k - $200k / year

⏰ Full Time

🟠 Senior

💼 Consultant

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AHEAD

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1001 - 5000 employees

💼 Consulting

🤖 Artificial Intelligence

🏢 Enterprise

💰 $5.7M Venture Round - AHEAD on 2024-05

Consulting • Artificial Intelligence • Enterprise

AHEAD is a technology consulting and systems-integration firm that accelerates digital transformation by engineering integrated solutions across infrastructure, applications, data, and security. The company specializes in AI transformation and AI-enabled infrastructure, data platform and platform/workload modernization, secure and resilient architectures, operational excellence, and managed services including IT lifecycle and procurement (AHEAD Hatch) and hardware integration (AHEAD Foundry). AHEAD delivers end-to-end services from strategy and financial consulting to build and run operations, partners with major cloud and infrastructure vendors (AWS, Google Cloud, Microsoft, Cisco, Dell, VMware, NVIDIA, ServiceNow, Palo Alto Networks, Rubrik, etc. ), and serves enterprise clients across industries such as healthcare, financial services, manufacturing, retail, and public sector.

📋 Description

• Assess and mature incident response, cyber resilience, and threat intelligence capabilities • Design or improve recovery operating models based on threat hunting scenarios, roles and responsibilities, escalation paths, and decision rights • Develop and refine cyber recovery plans, recovery runbooks, crisis playbooks, and communications procedures • Facilitate post-incident reviews, after-action reviews, lessons-learned sessions, tabletop exercises, simulations, and technical recovery exercises • Evaluate recovery dependencies across identity, networking, endpoints, applications, data, cloud platforms, backup infrastructure, and third parties • Assess backup and restore strategies, including isolation, immutability, recoverability, privileged-access controls, and validation testing • Define critical attack paths, pertinent threat intelligence sources, and exposure reconnaissance • Create roadmaps to mature anticipation and recovery capabilities • Support implementation of prioritized improvements with client technical teams and delivery partners • Lead purple-team-style validation of cyber recovery readiness using realistic attack paths and scenarios • Partner with offensive-security and defensive-security stakeholders to validate controls, telemetry, escalation paths, and recovery procedures • Use threat intelligence, exposure findings, attack-path analysis, and detection gaps to prioritize resilience improvements • Identify control, telemetry, and detection improvements to reduce time to contain, investigate, and recover • Connect vulnerability, exposure, detection, and recovery data into risk-informed resilience programs • Contribute to assessments of compromise assumptions, blast radius, and recovery sequencing • Provide feedback to upstream security capabilities based on incident and exercise findings • Lead workshops with technical, operational, risk, and executive stakeholders • Produce assessment reports, target-state designs, roadmaps, playbooks, exercise materials, and executive briefings • Serve as a trusted advisor during high-consequence resilience and recovery initiatives • Contribute reusable methods, accelerators, reference architectures, and points of view to AHEAD’s cyber resilience practice • Mentor consultants and collaborate with account, delivery, and technical leadership • Support proposal development, scoping, estimation, and solution shaping

🎯 Requirements

• Significant experience in cybersecurity consulting, incident response, cyber recovery, disaster recovery, business continuity, or a closely related discipline • Demonstrated experience designing, assessing, testing, or improving incident response and recovery capabilities • Strong understanding of enterprise infrastructure and security environments, including identity, endpoints, networks, cloud, applications, data, backups, and third-party dependencies • Ability to distinguish and integrate cyber recovery, IT disaster recovery, business continuity, and crisis management practices • Experience facilitating tabletop exercises, simulations, post-incident reviews, or recovery testing • Ability to communicate complex technical risks and recovery decisions to both practitioners and executives • Strong consulting skills, including workshop facilitation, structured problem solving, written communication, and stakeholder management • Willingness to travel for client engagements as required • Preferred: Experience with ransomware recovery, destructive attacks, identity compromise, cloud recovery, or major cyber incident response • Preferred: Experience developing recovery architectures, clean-room or isolated recovery environments, cyber vaults, immutable backups, or recovery validation programs • Preferred: Experience with security operations, detection engineering, threat hunting, threat intelligence, attack-path analysis, or exposure management • Preferred: Familiarity with NIST CSF, NIST SP 800-61, NIST SP 800-34, CISA guidance, ISO 22301, ISO 27001, or comparable frameworks • Preferred: Relevant certifications such as CISSP, CISM, CBCP, CRISC, GCIH, GCIA, GCFA, or equivalent experience • Preferred: Experience operating in regulated, complex, or highly available environments • Preferred: Experience building offerings, methodologies, or delivery practices in a consulting organization

🏖️ Benefits

• Medical, Dental, and Vision Insurance • 401(k) • Paid company holidays • Paid time off • Paid parental and caregiver leave • Encouragement of cross-department training and development • Sponsoring certifications and credentials for continued learning • Multi-million-dollar technology lab • AI application and resume review opt-out without penalty • Interview recording and transcription opt-out without penalty