Lead Cybersecurity Consultant

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West Monroe is looking to hire a Lead Cybersecurity Consultant (Manager) to focus on delivering our CAPE offering – Cybersecurity Advisory for Private Equity – which could include security controls audits, risk/compliance assessments, threat hunting, and/or general strategy & operations. The manager will often lead consulting teams in interviewing client stakeholders to understand their IT structure and systems, identify security flaws, and deliver remediation solutions to harden the environment. As a technology-agnostic firm, consultants always have the chance to broaden their skillset while working with cutting edge technologies, homegrown tools, and modern processes/frameworks. This is an exciting opportunity to join a high-growth company with an employee-centric culture and play a pivotal role in improving security posture across complex, client environments.

Responsibilities:

• Provide strategic cybersecurity advisory, due diligence, and consulting services for enterprise clients, ranging from policy definition to implementation, adoption, and enforcement
• Deliver our CAPE program/offering – Cybersecurity Advisory for Private Equity – to provide ongoing visibility into security practices, risks, and threats across a PE firm’s entire asset portfolio
• Manage client relationships and meet with executives to determine project requirements and provide status updates; translate requirements into concrete projects proposals, including detailed work plans and cost estimates
• Leverage industry-accepted frameworks to lead current-state, risk & controls review of existing organization – compliance adherence, processes, personnel, and technologies – while developing implementation strategies and roadmaps to guide remediations and solution delivery
• Oversee threat hunting across cloud and on-premise environments, translating threat intelligence to actionable hardening projects
• Manage junior consultants on projects, delegate workstreams, and act as career advisor/mentor
• Promote thought leadership in emerging cybersecurity technologies and consulting tactics through activities like blogs, white papers, attending industry events, and Center of Excellence contributions
• Contribute to business development process ad hoc and look for opportunities to cross-sell solutions

Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree in relevant field preferred, or equivalent experience required
• Consulting firm/industry experience preferred
• 6-10+ years of experience in Cybersecurity, Information Security, and/or Tech Consulting
• Adept at leading IT security risk & controls assessments using frameworks such as NIST
• Understanding of high-level application, database, and network security principles for risk identification, qualification, mitigation, and analysis
• Preference for audit experience leveraging common compliance or privacy frameworks such as PCI-DSS, HIPAA, HITRUST, SOC 1/2, SOX, GDPR, CCPA, etc.
• Experience leading and contributing to delivery of end-to-end solutions: people management, strategy, design, solution development, implementation, change management, training, etc.
• Confident in conveying complex cybersecurity concepts to both technical and non-technical audiences, including executives
• Excellent verbal, presentation/facilitation, and written communication skills
• Willingness to travel for out of town client engagements – COVID-19 permitting
• Bonus experience – threat hunting, DFIR, AWS/Azure, SOAR, application security, IT/cyber M&A

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At West Monroe, our people are our business.

We pride ourselves on bringing a different mindset to consulting—and that takes a different approach: highly collaborative, flexible, and tenacious.

Our people-first culture is core to our identity. It’s something we care about, and something we strive to enrich and preserve. No hierarchies. No siloes. No egos. Just smart ideas, unique perspectives, and the drive to make an impact for our clients.

We also know that the best outcomes for both our people and our clients result from including diverse perspectives at the table. That’s why inclusion & diversity is one of our core values.

Every day our clients rely on us to help them tackle their greatest challenges, by strategically deploying technology through a business-focused and industry-specific lens. We bring together both the right knowledge and the right approach, so that they can capitalize on opportunities and deliver real results. That takes the right team. And that’s where you come in.

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