Cybersecurity Consultant

Job Summary

We are seeking an experienced cybersecurity professional to join our Tech Client. The ideal candidate brings a strong technical background, deep expertise in cybersecurity controls, and the ability to translate complex control concepts into clear, actionable requirements that enable scalable automation and modernization.

Key Responsibilities

• Demonstrate a strong technical skillset and a deep understanding of cybersecurity control objectives, control design, and control operations across diverse lab and enterprise environments.
• Analyze existing and emerging security controls to ensure alignment with organizational risk, compliance, and modernization goals.
• Translate complex technical and security control concepts into standardized, actionable requirement statements that can be effectively consumed by User Experience teams, AI systems, and automation teams.
• Partner closely with Cyber control owners and operators to define, refine, and document requirements in accordance with Control Modernization standards.
• Ensure control requirements are clear, measurable, and suitable for automation and long-term scalability.
• Contribute to consistent, high-quality documentation that supports implementation, testing, and ongoing control lifecycle management.
• Engages with business partners and other internal stakeholders on cross-functional teams, performing solution architecture & gap analysis against existing access and network security
• Help devise and recommend network security solutions and program-related items to Cybersecurity leadership and with other leaders across the organization.
• Collaborate with GRC team on the implementation and maturation of security controls against industry-recognized security frameworks and standards such as NIST CSF, NIST 800-53 and ISO 2700x
• Create documentation and brief leadership on current network security risks as it pertains to enterprise sensitive data
• Creates and presents business case proposals for investment as needed
• Ability to identify network security gaps in end-to-end business processes and recommend techniques and tools to improve security posture and performance while reducing risk

Required Qualifications

• Proven experience in cybersecurity, security engineering, or control design and operation.
• Strong understanding of cybersecurity control frameworks, objectives, and operational practices.
• Experience writing clear, standardized technical and security requirements.
• Ability to communicate complex technical concepts effectively to both technical and non-technical stakeholders.
• Experience working in distributed or remote environments.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience with Cyber Control Modernization or large-scale security transformation initiatives.
• Familiarity with automation, AI-enabled systems, or UX-driven security solutions.
• Background working directly with control owners, auditors, or compliance teams.
• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Cybersecurity, Information Security, Management Information Systems, Information Technology, Engineering, or related field, or equivalent work experience
• Practical understanding and experience building/designing/operating security technologies across multiple domains
• 10+ years of enterprise experience in Network Security with working knowledge of enterprise hybrid cloud environments
• Security and privacy industry certifications such as Certified Information Systems Security Professional (CISSP); IAPP CIPT, CIPP/E/US, Palo Alto
• Experience with setting strategy for network security controls in big data and multi-cloud environments preferred
• Strong knowledge of Network Security Control Standards and Procedures