Security Consultant-Infrastructure Security

A career in IBM Consulting is built on long-term client relationships and close collaboration worldwide. You’ll work with leading companies across industries, helping them shape their hybrid cloud and AI journeys. With support from our strategic partners, robust IBM technology, and Red Hat, you’ll have the tools to drive meaningful change and accelerate client impact. At IBM Consulting, curiosity fuels success.

You’ll be encouraged to challenge the norm, explore new ideas, and create innovative solutions that deliver real results. Our culture of growth and empathy focuses on your long-term career development while valuing your unique skills and experiences.

In this role, you’ll work in one of our IBM Consulting Future Now Centers
, where we deliver deep technical and industry expertise to a wide range of public and private sector clients around the world. Our delivery centers offer our clients locally based skills and technical expertise to drive innovation and adoption of new technology.

Your role and responsibilities

As a Security Consultant specializing in Infrastructure Security, you play a crucial role in helping client IT and business executives comprehend Cloud & Infrastructure Security challenges, risks, and vulnerabilities. You apply security and zero trust principles to develop infrastructure security strategies tailored to the client's business needs.

Your primary responsibilities will include:

• Conduct Client Assessments: Conduct interviews, workshops, and assessments to identify potential security issues and provide consulting services to analyze and resolve security incidents.
• Develop Security Strategies: Apply in-depth knowledge of secure infrastructure and applications of hybrid cloud to develop infrastructure security programs, incident response plans, and remediation recommendations and roadmaps.
• Analyze Security Incidents: Provide consulting services to analyze and resolve security incidents, enabling clients to achieve a superior security posture and effectively manage security incidents.
• Deliver Tailored Solutions: Develop infrastructure security solutions tailored to the client's business needs, applying security and zero trust principles.
• Implement Incident Response Plans: Develop and implement incident response plans to help clients manage security incidents effectively.

Required education

Bachelor's Degree

Preferred education

Master's Degree

Required technical and professional expertise

• Exposure to Cloud Security: Familiarity with cloud security challenges, risks, and vulnerabilities, including experience working with hybrid cloud infrastructure and applications.
• Secure Infrastructure Knowledge: Understanding of secure infrastructure principles, including hands‑on experience with security and zero trust principles in an infrastructure security context.
• Incident Response
  
  Experience:
  
  Exposure to analyzing and resolving security incidents, including experience developing and implementing incident response plans.
• Security Consulting
  
  Skills:
  
  Experience providing consulting services to clients, including conducting interviews, workshops, and assessments to identify potential security issues.
• Hybrid Cloud Applications: Familiarity with secure applications of hybrid cloud, including experience developing infrastructure security strategies and programs tailored to business needs.

Preferred technical and professional experience

• Cloud Security Frameworks: Exposure to industry-recognized cloud security frameworks and standards, including knowledge of compliance requirements and regulatory mandates.
• Advanced Threat Analysis: Familiarity with advanced threat analysis and incident response methodologies, including experience with threat intelligence and security analytics tools.
• Zero Trust…