Managing Consultant - Cloud & Cybersecurity

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  • CrossCountry Consulting
Job Summary
Location
Mc Lean ,VA 22101
Job Type
Contract
Visa
Any Valid Visa
Salary
PayRate
Qualification
BCA
Experience
2Years - 10Years
Posted
19 Dec 2024
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Job Description
By joining our rapidly growing Risk Advisory practice you will serve as a trusted partner to our clients. You'll bring your first-hand experience, unique perspectives, and functional knowledge to deliver tailored integrated solutions that solve today's challenges and set the foundation for future success. With support from experienced leaders and a dedicated coach, you will join a collaborative community that invites you to contribute beyond the scope of client delivery.

What You'll Do:
    • Develop logical and technical cloud security architectures, API designs, and functional requirements for secure cloud environments
    • Build roadmaps, design, and implement secure cloud-based technologies such as containers, infrastructure-as-code, and serverless
    • Conduct solution-based gap analysis and define, identify, and engineer suitable solutions for asset testing, code scanning, and application and infrastructure monitoring
    • Inventory security tools, identifying opportunities to consolidate and leverage unknown, unused, or new features
    • Review technical processes, with a specific focus on cybersecurity and data (vulnerability management, disaster recovery, data protection, software development), updating them to be effective in a cloud environment
    • Benchmark and model cloud security capability maturity against industry, regulatory standards, and frameworks (NIST CSF, NIST 800-53, Cloud Security Alliance, ISO 27000)
    • Conduct cybersecurity program and control-level assessments, identify gaps, and produce strategies and roadmaps for security program and control uplift
    • Lead workstreams across various cybersecurity topics, including governance, risk, and compliance; incident response; and security architecture and engineering
    • Conduct research and analysis, leveraging data to derive valuable insights and actionable recommendations for clients
    • Develop deliverables that showcase a strong business rationale, presenting impactful findings and recommendations
    • Stay current with the latest developments and trends in cyber and privacy issues, actively sharing knowledge with the team and the firm
    • Lead project administration tasks such as project setup, planning, budgeting, account management, billing, and preparing client proposals


What You'll Bring:
    • 5+ years of experience in Cloud & Cybersecurity
    • Experience building and implementing solutions on industry cloud platforms (e.g. AWS, Azure, GCP)
    • Experience in implementing, building and operating security capabilities in cloud environments and working with cloud/DevOps technologies including containers, infrastructure-as-code, and serverless
    • Working knowledge of cloud and cybersecurity standards and frameworks
    • Exceptional verbal and written communication, analytical thinking, and problem-solving skills


Qualifications:
    • Bachelor's degree from an accredited university
    • Professional certification (CISA, CISM, CISSP, CIPT, CIPP, CIPM).
    • Willingness to travel domestically up to 20%-30% (varies by client)
    • Availability to work on client site or in office 3 days a week, with 2 days remote (hybrid environment)


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