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Cyber Resilience - Principal

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Job Summary

As part of our Proactive Advisory practice, the Principal helps our clients ensure their infrastructure is resilient against today's cyber threats by conducting strategic reviews and tactical hardening. 

The ideal candidate has strong hands-to-keyboard experience configuring and managing enterprise technologies such as collaboration services, backups, end-user computing, server environments, and network infrastructure. Leveraging their technical background, the Principal can quickly assess the effectiveness of an enterprise IT environment and develop tactical and strategic solutions to present to Executive Stakeholders.

Furthermore, this role will work closely with our Incident Response team to gather knowledge from today’s cyber attacks and apply it to our proactive methodologies.

Skills & Qualifications

Required

  • 6+ years of experience administering or building enterprise IT environments
  • Expert troubleshooting across enterprise IT environments
  • Comfortable communicating and presenting to clients

Preferred

  • Bachelor’s Degree or equivalent experience in a STEM-related field
  • Knowledge of current attack vectors and trends in cybersecurity
  • Relevant certifications (e.g., AWS Solutions Architect, Azure Administrator, VMWare Certified Professional, CCNA)
  • Prior consulting experience
  • Prior experience with EDR, MDR and/or any SIEM tools
  • Ability to perform travel requirements as needed to meet business demands (up to 50%) 
  • Located near Chicago or Cincinnati

 

Responsbilities

Infrastructure Configuration Reviews and Strategic Roadmaps

  • Use the knowledge gained from our incident response engagements to define methodologies (e.g., scripts, operating procedures, frameworks) for proactive security reviews
  • Script and automate data collection methods to collect configuration data for a data-driven approach to infrastructure security reviews
  • Execute gap assessments for key enterprise infrastructure systems
  • Consolidate findings into a deliverable and conduct technical and executive readouts on impact of findings
  • Conduct secure infrastructure configuration reviews across the enterprise IT stack and assist clients in addressing concerns

Secure Infrastructure Deployments

  • In collaboration with the team, architect, plan, and execute common infrastructure security projects such as MFA deployments, M365 migrations, server hardening, immutable backup methodologies, security tool deployment, firewall upgrades.

 

Perks & Benefits

  • Work from home culture
  • Top tier benefits –Medical, Dental, Vision and 401(k) including company match as well as other benefits
  • Company-paid professional development and training 
  • Flexible PTO policy