As a Senior Security Consultant you will be responsible for demonstrating leadership in technical skill and strategy. You will provide consulting services and may be required to lead a consulting team within your area of expertise. You will support management and other functional areas of the business to drive business outcomes. In addition to providing subject matter expertise, you will be required to provide a high level of understanding of general cyber security concepts. A Senior Security Consultant is expected to maintain a high level of community/vendor recognition within a technical practice area.
This role will primarily be focused on delivering data security engagements in conjunction with our GRC and Data Protection and Privacy teams, but may also include work with other relevant technologies that the candidate is either already skilled in or becomes trained.
Responsibilities
- Be adaptable to discussing a wide range of cyber security concepts and contribute to different cyber security technologies.
- Advise management on the consulting strategy and drive the growth of business in your practice area.
- Provide leadership n identifying, defining and architecting client solutions.
- Provide leadership on implementing and delivering projects.
- Lead the direction for training and development required to meet the consulting strategy.
- Lead and mentor others within your area of expertise. Promote a high-performing culture within the team, focusing on consulting and delivery excellence. Foster innovation and positive change.
- Maintain a high level of technical skill commensurate with the emergence of technology and vendors.
- Provide detailed architecture, design and migration strategies.
- Provide client support and technical relationship management as required.
- Work with aligned vendors to understand technical roadmaps and new solutions to market.
- Ensure the quality of technical documentation of others within your practice area.
- Contribute to the sales process which includes presentations, research, project scoping and tenders.
- Present to the business on at minimum a quarterly basis on developments within your practice area.
- Ensure the continuous improvement of your practice area, including the enhancement of existing methodology material, supporting assets and the Service Catalogue.
- Assist clients with product implementations.
Key Performance Indicators (KPIs)
- Timely and accurate completion of assigned technical tasks and support requests
- Positive customer feedback on responsiveness and service quality
- Reduction in repeated issues through effective documentation and escalation
- Active participation in team meetings, training, and process improvement efforts
- Completion of required documentation to internal QA standards
- Consistent progress toward upskilling and certification milestones
Personal Attributes
- Clear and professional communicator with strong attention to detail
- Eagerness to learn and contribute in a collaborative team environment
- Strong problem-solving mindset and willingness to take ownership of assigned tasks
- Customer-oriented with a focus on delivering quality outcomes
- Adaptable and organised, able to manage competing tasks effectively
- Receptive to feedback and committed to continuous improvement
Qualifications
- 5–10 years of experience in Security Consulting
- Understanding of cyber security principles and security layers.
- Knowledge of cyber security standards, processes, policies and metrics (encompassing network security, application security and data security).
- Understanding of industry best practices for security architecture frameworks, tools, standards and guidelines.
- Excellent understanding and extensive experience in the professional service/consulting processes and delivery
- Able to assess and validate compliance to acknowledged security standards
- Broad understanding of IP networks and the mechanisms, appliances and controls to protect them.
- Excellent understanding of core security technical fundamentals and principles.
- Experience with security risk and compliance frameworks such as ISO/IEC 27001, 31000 series, PCI-DSS, NIST, Australian Government ISM and how they apply to customer environments.
- Excellent ability to strategically guide and technically implement secure enterprise level solutions within practice area, including within legacy enterprise environments.
Skills and Attributes
- Strong understanding of the following Technical skills
- Strong understanding of Data Security processes and frameworks.
- Strong understanding of Data Loss Prevention solutions and their application in real world scenarios
- Strong Technical skills in the following:
- Microsoft 365 Online Services
- Microsoft Purview including Information Protection, Data Loss prevention, Data Classifiers, Insider Risk Management
- Understanding of on-premises and cloud file storage platforms
- Understanding of SaaS application architecture
- Understanding of Email Services and routing.
- Optional Technical skills in the following:
- Forcepoint DLP/DSPM
- Mimecast DLP
- Zscaler DLP
- Netskope DLP/DSPM
- Proofpoint DLP/DSPM
- Big ID
- Cyera
- Knowledgeable in IT service management best practices and processes.
- Seeks and accepts responsibility for the standard of service and delivery.
- Demonstrates leadership and effective management.
- Commitment to continual improvement, education, personal development and willingness to learn.
- Excellent presentation skills focusing on technical presales and solutions.
- Ability to discuss, communicate and distinguish between strategic and tactical considerations.
- Strong troubleshooting skills and ability to manage issues through to resolution.
- Ability to drive vendor support processes to achieve accelerated issue resolution.
- Ability to identify and qualify opportunities within consulting/presales engagements.
- Able to travel when required.
- Maintains strong attention to detail in high-pressure situations.
- Outstanding interpersonal skills and the capacity to develop and maintain excellent working relationships with customers, stakeholders and vendors.
- Fully fluent in written and spoken English.
- Always maintains a high standard of dress (business attire).
- Exceptional ability to create original documentation including assessments, design, configuration guides, tuning guides and operational guides to a template standard.
- Strong ambition and ability to develop and expand cyber security services and product support.
How to Apply
Please send resumes to: Kristen.brinker@infotrust.com.au
