Senior Consultant, SOC Assessment

Position Summary

As a Senior Consultant you will work as part of a team assessing the security and compliance of client firms against regulatory and industry requirements and standards, and against security best practice frameworks. You will have an expert understanding of framework requirements, perform audit/assessments, and develop reports for clients. In the Senior Consultant role you will work closely with Project Managers, Directors and other Delivery team members to effectively manage project timelines and deliverables.

At Coalfire as a Senior Consultant you will help enhance our clients’ security posture, working with a wide range of clients to ensure that business and customer data is protected. This role will evaluate the design and effectiveness of technology controls throughout the business cycle and will help identify performance improvement opportunities. As a senior member of the team, you will also be responsible for enhancing engagement methodology, improving internal processes and overseeing and reviewing the work of Associates and Consultants.

This role facilitates Security Control Assessments and other advanced-level monitoring activities, often within cloud-based environments. To succeed, you will need a strong understanding of technical and non-technical security related system controls and an understanding of the various testing methods utilized to ascertain the effectiveness of those controls. The role works in a team atmosphere with an experienced Technical Project Lead, and is assigned technical sections and expected to create client-ready deliverables.

• Lead audits/assessments including audit plan preparation, review of documentation and evidence, evaluation of procedures, and client interviews with a primary focus on SOC 2 followed by SOC 1 and C5 audits.
• Maintain strong depth of knowledge in one or more cybersecurity frameworks.
• Prepare, review, and approve assessment reports.
• Manage priorities, tasks, and hours on projects in conjunction with the project manager and delivery team members to achieve delivery utilization targets.
• Ensure quality products and services are delivered on time.
• Escalate client and project issues to management in a timely manner to inform and engage the necessary resources to address the issue.
• Provide mentorship to team members in areas of audit, assessment, technical review and writing.
• Interface with clients through entire engagement, interacting with all levels of client organizations.
• Establish and maintain positive collaborative relationships with clients and stakeholders.
• Continuous professional development in maintaining industry specific certifications. Maintains strong depth of knowledge in the practice area.
• Collaborate with project managers, quality management, sales and other delivery team members to drive customer satisfaction and meet project deliverables.
• Establish account relationships and identifies upsell and cross sell opportunities and escalates to sales.
• Draft audit programs that sufficiently address both the required objectives of the regulatory body and the complexity of the client environment.
• Lead interview and inquiry walkthroughs with clients to determine the conformity of environments against stated requirements.
• Communicate effectively with internal team members and external clients regarding assessment status.
• Assess security vulnerabilities against the appropriate security frameworks,
• Pursue and corroborate conclusions derived from inquiry procedures with client while ensuring diligent interview notes are captured.
• Offline and remote evidence inspection of client provided documentation; appropriately mark artifacts requiring follow-up or additional clarification.
• Educate and interpret compliance activities for clients.
• Understand how to apply quality standards and adhere to a minimum benchmark for quality assurance throughout the documentation of each work product or deliverable.
• Provide advice to customers on issues affecting the scope of work in a manner that provides additional value.
• Develop documentation and author recommendations associate with findings on how to improve the customer’s security posture in…