Senior Security Consultant - Southern California - Nth Generation

Are you an experienced Senior Security Consultant professional looking to join a cutting-edge IT & Cybersecurity Advisor & Solution Provider? Do you want to join a locally and nationally award-winning company? Nth Generation has placed within the Best Places to Work in San Diego, has been recognized nationally by Inc Magazine's Best Places to Work, and has a perfect score on Glassdoor. We are a company that prides ourselves in our vision, mission, and values! For more information check out our website at nth.com/careers.

• Nth's Vision: To deliver AWESOME in everything we do!

• Nth's Mission: To provide transformational technology solutions and services that enable our clients to achieve optimal results.

• Nth's Values: Ethics, Success, Relationships,Learning, Innovation.

• We believe that our employees are our greatest asset! Our strong team of exceptional talent, solid culture, excellent employee tenure, consistent growth, and long-standing client and partner relationships are a direct result of our vision, mission, and values!

Benefits & Perks: We believe that happy employees make for happy clients and offer the following benefits & perks:

• Competitive pay
• Employee Recognition Perks & Awards
• 401(k) Retirement Plan & Discretionary Profit Sharing
• Discretionary Profitability Bonus, dependent upon company profitability
• Paid Vacation, Holidays & Sick/Personal Time
• Group Medical, Dental, Vision, Life, STD, LTD
• Flexible Spending
• Voluntary Supplemental Insurance
• Employee Assistance Plan
• Complementary Costco Business Membership
• Supplemental Pet Plans
• Employer-provided Identity Protection & Financial Wellness Coverage
• Fun celebratory events throughout the year!!

POSITION SUMMARY

This position is recognized as an expert Information Security Consultant and performs remote and/or client consulting projects from a pre-sales and post-sales perspective, in support of Nth Generation Computing, Inc.'s enterprise security practice. This position is responsible for assessing, designing, developing, demonstrating, positioning, provisioning, and implementing enterprise security services and solutions; as well as providing ongoing support to Nth Generation's clients, using the best tools, techniques, and products that our clients demand today.

To perform the job successfully, this individual must be able to perform each duty satisfactorily, while always maintaining the Nth Corporate Culture (see Appendix A). This is a Salaried Exempt position.

LOCATION & TRAVEL REQUIREMENTS

This position will primarily serve our Southern California client base via remote work. There may be occasions where business needs require on-site attendance and/or work.

REPORTING STRUCTURE

This position reports to our Co-President, CTO, Security & Marketing, Dan Molina, who will be the primary manager. This position may also take direction from members of the executive leadership team, as well as the Nth assigned Project Manager, which may vary on each client project.

ESSENTIAL DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES include, but not limited to, the following:

Supports Nth's Sales and Presales teams in the role of Senior Security Consultant, adhering to Nth's Sales Process, while always striving to provide top quality solutions and services to Nth's clients.

Senior Security Consulting Services:

• Executes security gap assessments based on industry frameworks, such as NIST, CIS CSC, and other applicable frameworks.
• Performs the role of a Virtual Chief Information Security Officer (vCISO), assessing the organization's security posture, providing a prioritized security remediation roadmap, leading security initiatives, and providing security expertise and expert thought leadership.
• Architects enterprise security solutions, based on client needs, that include products/technologies from Nth's security portfolio and respective implementation services.
• Performs ethical hacking services to assess clients' security posture, such as internal, external and remote vulnerability and penetration tests, IT security assessments, and other related tactical security services.
• Compiles comprehensive written reports directly related to clients' specific risk and business plans.
• Provides oral and written post-evaluation reports detailing discussions/conferences with clients to provide remediation suggestions and guidance.
• Interviews and evaluates clients to meet and exceed security-assessments, penetration testing and remediation requirements.
• Provides timely documentation to clients and internal staff.

Product Knowledge and Certifications:

Strong knowledge, expertise, and formal certifications on Nth's Security portfolio products, such as the following products: (Note: formal training will be made available for some or all of these products to help gain the needed knowledge and certain required vendor certifications)

• Microsoft Windows Certifications
• Arctic Wolf, Varonis, Darktrace, Tanium, Pondurance, Rapid7, LMNTRIX, HPE Aruba, 11:11 Systems Security offerings, Black Kite, BlackBerry, Fortinet, Palo Alto Networks, Atakama, Axonius, CrowdStrike, SentinelOne, Zscaler, Okta, Thales, VMware Security products, HPE Security products, Mimecast, Proofpoint, CyberArk, KnowBe4, NinjaRMM, InfoBlox, ZeroFox, and any other Nth Security partners active in Nth's Security portfolio.
• Other leading Security products and solutions with whom Nth may partner in the future.
• Nth's active Third Party Services Partners with security services offerings.

Training will be provided on Nth's overall services and solutions portfolio with the expectation that this role will also help promote Nth's overall offerings when possible, during client engagements.

General Responsibilities:

• Completes any needed partner sales and technical certifications, and shadowing engagements, as business needs dictate and as work demands reasonably allow.
• Develops a Bill of Materials (BOM) and a detailed Scope of Work (SOW) on properly qualified sales opportunities from interactions with the client and Nth team members. On a daily basis, provides clients and Nth Project Management with up-to-date Daily Status Report documentation of work completed.
• Engages in knowledge sharing, which is critical to the team's ability to provide the best value-add for our clients, allows the consultant the ability to give input on new technology and business consulting services and develop the portfolio as a member of the group.
• Conducts formal and informal presentations of technical concepts to clients as part of pre- and post- sales support efforts, as needed.

• Able to work during Nth Generation's core hours of operation of Monday through Friday, from 8:30 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. pacific time. Flexible to start early and/or work late based on client needs and workload.
• Carries smart phone -with Nth's main communication app installed and functional, such as Teams, and makes best effort to respond to calls/instant messages and emails, both during and after business hours.
• Keeps accurate records and notes regarding all client projects, including timekeeping, documentation, project plans, trip reports and status reports.
• Performs special projects, as needed.
• As business and operational demands dictate, additional duties may be assigned and expected to be performed.

TRAINING REQUIREMENTS

• Attends up to two or more weeks of technical training per year, as appropriate.
• Attends ongoing training to keep current knowledge base on products we support.
• Maintains current certifications and keeps up to date on certifications for new products or services, as directed by Management.

QUALIFICATIONS

To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential duty satisfactorily. The requirements listed below are representative of the knowledge, skill, and/or ability required. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable qualified individuals with disabilities to perform the essential job functions. Education and / or Experience / Certifications

Typically requires:

• An advanced degree in Engineering/Cybersecurity or related field, and/or equivalent IT industry training or work experience.

• 5+ years of relevant technical experience.
• Certified Information Systems Security Professional (CISSP) is required.

• Other relevant professional IT/Security certifications a plus, such as:

• One or more of the following additional security certifications:
  • Global Information Assurance Certification (GIAC)
  • GIAC Security Essentials (GSEC)
  • Certified Information Security Manager (CISM)
  • Certified Information Systems Auditor (CISA)
  • Certified Ethical Hacker (CEH)
  • NIST Cybersecurity Framework (NCSF)
  • Certified Cloud Security Professional (CCSP)
  • AWS Certified Security
  • AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
  • Computer Hacking Forensic Investigator (CHFI)
  • Cisco Certified Network Associate (CCNA)
  • Certified in Risk and Information Systems Control (CRISC)
  • Certified Data Privacy Solutions Engineer (CDPSE)

Skills, Knowledge and Abilities

• Must possess the utmost ethical standards and trustworthiness by not sharing privileged passwords, information and/or access to confidential data to other employees or people outside the company.
• Excellent written and oral communication skills as demonstrated by:
  • Ability to communicate complex technical solutions clearly.
  • Able to exercise tact and diplomacy in dealing with clients and staff.
  • Ability to respond to common inquiries or complaints from customers, regulatory agencies, or members of the business community.
  • Ability to effectively present information to top management.
  • Ability to make public presentations that are technically sound, clearly understood and reach both technical and executive staff.
  • Ability to have command of the English language and to be recognized as an excellent presenter.
  • Ability to write speeches and articles for publication that conform to prescribed style and format.
  • Ability to develop, create and respond to technical Requests for Proposals (RFP's).
• Ability to negotiate and strategize scope-of-work requirements with clients and staff.
• Ability to Plan and Project Manage complex technical projects, while maintaining a calm, efficient, competent, well-organized approach with staff.
• Ability to learn and retain knowledge of a wide variety of technical information requests and responds quickly to information requests.
• Ability to design and create Disaster Recovery and Incident Response Plans.
• Ability to apply information from data collection tools and create graphs and charts in Excel for Clients presentations and reports.
• Ability to organize and prioritize work assignments, training schedules, and special requests in an unstructured environment.
• Ability to maintain a courteous, professional manner with clients and staff at all times and work well under stress.
• Ability to interface internally with all departments and externally with outside sales, clients, and partners.
• PC literacy to include Office 365, e.g., Outlook, Teams, Word, Excel, Power Point, etc. FileMaker knowledge also a plus.
• Consistently projects a friendly, positive, "can do" and helpful attitude.
• Is a team player and is self-motivated.
• Ability to multi-task and adjust to ever changing requirements.
• Ability to work effectively under remote supervision.

PHYSICAL DEMANDS

The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential function of this job. Reasonable accommodation may be made to enable an otherwise qualified individual with a disability to perform the essential functions.

Position requires manual dexterity to perform word processing and computer-related tasks. Able to see, hear and talk. Able to push/pull, sit, walk, stand, bend, keyboard, grasp, hold, participate in repetitive motion with hands and feet. Able to drive an automobile and/or utilize public transportation such as via air, train, or other methods of transportation.

WORK ENVIRONMENT

The work environment characteristics described here are representative of those an employee encounters while performing the essential function of this job. Reasonable accommodation may be made to enable an otherwise qualified individual with a disability to perform the essential functions.

Employment is contingent upon successfully passing a 10-year background check, including education verification, pre-employment drug screening, and reference checking.