Senior Technical Consultant - Cloud Security

• Client Delivery
• Facilitate sessions of strategy, roadmap, design, and planning workshops for medium to large service engagements
• Ensure that customer expectations are appropriately set and managed
• Lead project engagement teams through the delivery of consulting service offerings
• Drive and manage the objectives, requirements gathering, project tasks/milestone, project status, dependencies, and timelines, to ensure engagements are delivered successfully and on time while meeting the business objectives
• Breaks down risks or issues into manageable segments, identifies the factors that affect a problem and determine how best to approach
• Creation and finalization of project deliverables, may perform peer review for collateral developed by others on a delivery team
• Presentation of deliverables to client executive management
• Knowledge of AHEAD’s project lifecycle management activities to effectively support delivery engagements throughout the duration of a project
• Act as the Engagement Lead on customer facing projects, when assigned
• Business Development
• Support business development pursuits through client discovery meetings
• Represent service offerings during the sales cycle, including project scoping, proposal development, and presenting proposals to clients
• Knowledge of AHEAD’s sales management lifecycle to effectively support sales opportunities throughout the duration of a proposal
• Assist Principal Consultants with engagement scoping and the creation of proposal collateral
• Familiarity with AHEAD’s enterprise service portfolio to identify opportunities for cross-practice collaboration
• Practice Development & Thought Leadership
• Maintain subject matter expertise in a minimum of eight security domains or three security solutions
• Participate in the development, enhancement, and standardization of AHEAD in-practice service offerings
• Owns and/or enables more than one service capability
• Process-focused technology thought leader and evangelist
• Maintain a broad knowledge and understanding of current and future state IT trends, technologies, and standards
• Lend support and mentorship to others

• Cloud Security Architecture & Risk Strategy
• Proven experience in reviewing and implementing secure cloud reference architectures and landing zones.
• Ability to translate risk strategy by mapping traditional lift-and-shift approaches into cloud-native security controls.
• Strong understanding of multi-cloud governance models including Infrastructure-as-Code (IaC), policy-as-code (PaC), tagging standards, and multi-account strategies.
• CNAPP Tooling
• 5+ years of hands-on experience with CNAPP tools, particularly Wiz and Prisma Cloud.
• Expertise in integrating Wiz and Prisma Cloud with enterprise tooling such as ServiceNow, CI/CD pipelines, and ticketing/alerting workflows.
• Able to clearly and concisely communicate Wiz/Prisma outputs (criticality, risk, remediation) to technical and business stakeholders.
• Strong track record in deploying and instantiating Prisma Cloud.
• Cloud Platforms & Native Security Controls
• 5+ years of experience working with AWS, Azure, and/or GCP.
• Familiarity with cloud-native security services such as AWS Security Hub, Microsoft Defender for Cloud, and Google Security Command Center.
• Hands-on knowledge of cloud identity (IAM, Federation, RBAC) across multi-cloud environments.
• Familiarity with IDaaS solutions such as Okta and Entra ID.
• Security Frameworks & Governance
• Strong knowledge of security standards and frameworks: CIS Benchmarks, NIST, FedRAMP, ISO 27001, GDPR.
• Ability to design and map cloud-specific controls for audit and compliance needs.
• Experience with SIEM integration (Splunk, Sentinel, Chronicle) and cloud-native detection capabilities.
• Automation, IaC & Container Security
• Ability to read, understand, and apply Infrastructure-as-Code (Terraform, Bicep, CloudFormation).
• Familiarity with policy-as-code tooling (OPA, Sentinel) and IaC scanning in CI/CD pipelines.
• Proficiency in scripting (Python, PowerShell, Bash) to automate security tasks.
• Experience with containerization (Docker, Kubernetes) and securing workloads at scale.

Through our daily work and internal groups like Moving Women AHEAD and RISE AHEAD, we value and benefit from diversity of people, ideas, experience, and everything in between.

We fuel growth by stacking our office with top-notch technologies in a multi-million-dollar lab, by encouraging cross department training and development, sponsoring certifications and credentials for continued learning.

USA Employment Benefits include:

• Medical, Dental, and Vision Insurance
• 401(k)
• Paid company holidays
• Paid time off
• Paid parental and caregiver leave
• Plus more! See benefits https://www.aheadbenefits.com/ for additional details.

AHEAD builds platforms for digital business. By weaving together advances in cloud infrastructure, automation and analytics, and software delivery, we help enterprises deliver on the promise of digital transformation.

At AHEAD, we prioritize creating a culture of belonging, where all perspectives and voices are represented, valued, respected, and heard. We create spaces to empower everyone to speak up, make change, and drive the culture at AHEAD.

We are an equal opportunity employer, and do not discriminate based on an individual’s race, national origin, color, gender, gender identity, gender expression, sexual orientation, religion, age, disability, marital status, or any other protected characteristic under applicable law, whether actual or perceived. We embrace all candidates that will contribute to the diversification and enrichment of ideas and perspectives at AHEAD.