Cybersecurity SecOps Consultant

This is a fully remote position, open to applicants in United States.

📋 Description

• Provide guidance to customer cybersecurity leaders regarding SecOps strategies, operational priorities, technology initiatives, and practical enhancements.

• Convert cybersecurity requirements into actionable scopes, specifications, workstreams, milestones, dependencies, risks, responsible parties, and implementation plans.

• Oversee cross-functional cybersecurity projects that involve security operations, engineering, application and infrastructure teams, vendors, and key business stakeholders.

• Organize working sessions, resolve dependencies, facilitate decision-making, and uphold delivery discipline utilizing Jira and Confluence.

• Offer technical and advisory leadership in areas such as security engineering, SIEM and security-data platforms, incident response, AI-defense, platform migrations, data onboarding and routing, integrations, detections/use cases, security analytics, SOAR, workflow orchestration, and automation.

• Assess technical strategies, challenge existing assumptions, identify gaps, evaluate cybersecurity tools and emerging technologies, and create recommendations for selection, deployment, configuration, integration, and support models.

• Articulate and communicate security performance, risks, and outcomes through metrics, KRIs, status reports, decision documentation, and executive-ready presentations.

• Act as a liaison between technical teams and leadership throughout the phases of planning, execution, adoption, and measurable outcomes.

⛳️ Requirements

• 7+ years of relevant experience in cybersecurity, including substantial hands-on experience in Security Operations / SecOps, security engineering, architecture, implementation, or technical consulting.

• Direct experience with SIEM, SOAR, and security-data platforms, especially Splunk and/or Cribl.

• Proficiency in data pipelines, onboarding, integrations, migrations, use-case development, or related delivery tasks.

• In-depth understanding of contemporary cybersecurity operations, encompassing security monitoring and detection, incident response, security engineering, security data, integrations, operational workflows, and SIEM concepts.

• Experience in leading technical cybersecurity initiatives or workstreams.

• Capability to translate broad or ambiguous technical goals into actionable scopes, specifications, milestones, dependencies, risks, responsible parties, recommendations, and measurable outcomes.

• Strong skills in cybersecurity consulting and stakeholder leadership, including discovery, requirements gathering, facilitation, problem-solving, executive communication, and documentation.

• Familiarity with enterprise cybersecurity technologies and integrations, including Splunk, Cribl, Microsoft Sentinel/Defender, CrowdStrike, Palo Alto Networks, ServiceNow, SOAR platforms, endpoint security, Jira, and Confluence.

• Understanding of cybersecurity governance, risk, and frameworks such as the NIST Cybersecurity Framework and NIST SP 800-53.

• Preferred: Experience with ServiceNow Security Operations and/or CMDB.

• Preferred: Experience in regulated, critical-infrastructure, or highly controlled cybersecurity environments.

• Preferred: Relevant cybersecurity certifications such as CISSP, CompTIA Security+, GIAC, or vendor security/SIEM certifications.

• PMP, Agile, Scrum, or similar delivery certifications are advantageous but not mandatory.

• No specific educational qualifications are required.

🏝️ Benefits

• Medical insurance

• Dental insurance

• Vision insurance

• Flexible Spending Accounts

• Short Term Disability

• Long Term Disability

• Life Insurance and AD&D

• Option to purchase additional Life Insurance and AD&D

• Paid Time Off

• Personal Leave

• Holidays

• 401(k) plan with company match

• Work/life balance

• Ongoing learning and professional growth opportunities