Consultant II, Senior

Senior Consultant II

The Senior Consultant II will provide technical expertise on project tasks to ensure quality services are delivered on schedule and within the available budget to meet customer requirements. This includes providing frequent updates to the project manager. As part of a project team, Senior Consultant II will maintain relationships with clients and key decision makers to help identify new business opportunities.

What You Will Do:

• Provide cybersecurity expertise on project tasks to ensure quality services are delivered on schedule and within available budget to meet customer requirements and provide frequent updates to the project manager
• Assist project manager with defining and sequencing project tasks, estimating task duration and developing a project schedule as part of developing a project management plan
• Review project management plans to understand the scope, schedule and assigned work authorization
• Plan and schedule client meetings
• Participate in client and project team meetings
• Assist with research and data analysis, including assisting with conducting customer or stakeholder analyses
• Prepare written documents, reports, and presentations
• Develop conclusions and recommendations, draft reports, and assist with client presentations
• Assist with giving oral presentations to clients
• Track and report hours spent executing projects
• Collaborate with individuals at all levels, provide input to reports and other deliverables, execute multiple assignments, meet agreed deadlines, and adjust to changing client demands
• Perform quality assurance on project deliverables

Develop Relationships With Existing Customers To Facilitate Development Of New Business Opportunities

• Learn, understand and be conversant in ABS Consulting cybersecurity products and services, including ISA/IEC 62443 industrial cybersecurity, NIST Cybersecurity Framework implementation, Zero Trust architecture, and OT/IT convergence consulting
• Meet with new and existing clients and actively listen to their needs
• Communicate client needs to project managers and supervisors, to include emerging threats, regulatory changes, and security technology requirements
• Review published reports and news articles about existing and potential new clients to identify customer intelligence
• Participate in proposal development, including writing proposals

Represent ABS Consulting And Participate In Promoting Our Products And Services

• Participate in marketing activities, conference presentations, technical whitepapers
• Networking to meet new potential clients

Must be willing and able to travel 50% or more of the time as necessary to meet business needs.

What You Will Need:

Education and Experience

• Must have a bachelor's degree or equivalent experience
• 8 plus years of relevant professional experience
• Active Security Clearance preferred

Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities

• Ability to gain, retain, comprehend, and transfer knowledge to other members of the team.
• Ability to mentor/coach entry-level consultants and hone technical skills in others.
• Ability to actively listen to the needs of our clients by receiving shared information and determine context of the information provided and generating probing questions to better understand, retaining the information for future access, engaging and collaborating with sales team on potential opportunities, and responding with solutions.
• Ability to utilize established rapport and role as a subject matter expert with existing clients to facilitate development of new business.
• Ability to coach others on development of customer intimacy and new opportunities
• Must understand departmental goals and holds self and team members accountable for keeping commitments and high standards. Uses Root Cause Analysis to improve performance
• Demonstrate a proficient level of time management skills
• Hands-on experience with NIST Risk Management Framework and 800-53
• Hands-on experience with vulnerability assessment and scanning tools like Tenable Nessus or Security Center
• Understanding of TCP/IP networking and troubleshooting
• Experience with Python or PowerShell
• Experience with Operational technology (OT) or Industrial Control Systems (ICS)
• Ability to obtain a working knowledge of the ABS Health, Safety, Quality and Environmental Management System

Salary Range: $115k - $140k

Required/Preferred Professional Requirements Professional certification preferred CASP+/SecurityX and/or CISSP certification preferred

Country Requirements US Citizenship required for roles supporting government contracts

Reporting Relationships Reports to a Manager