Position Summary:
The Senior Manager role offers an excellent opportunity to leverage and display your technical knowledge and experience while broadening your business and project management skills. Responsibilities include end-to-end cybersecurity engagement management, performance of cybersecurity assessments, design and implementation of operational security solutions, and developing and supervising other Grant Thornton Cybersecurity colleagues. The Cloud Security Senior Manager is responsible for supporting the growth of the practice, as well as delivering a full range of services to clients and managing projects, teams and budgets for multiple clients. In addition, Senior Managers are responsible for driving all aspects of practice development, including business development, marketing, thought leadership, mentoring and team building.
Key Responsibilities:
- Manage business development activities, including development of proposals, identifying new opportunities, representing Cyber risk on account teams, writing whitepapers, attending conferences, and/or developing thought leadership material
- Ability to manage multiple engagements and competing priorities in a rapidly growing, fast-paced, interactive, results-based team environment.
- Communicate (verbally and in writing) externally with clients and internally with all levels of the organization to successfully accomplish objectives portraying knowledge and confidence.
- Assist practice leadership in creating proposals, budgets, and work plans. Participate in other business development activities with existing and new clients.
- Adhere to the highest degree of professional standards and strict client confidentiality.
- Proactively interact with key client management to gather information, resolve problems and make recommendations for improvements.
- Perform engagement management responsibilities, including performance reviews, task delegation, project scheduling, project financials, quality review and client management.
- Demonstrate deep knowledge across major cloud service provider platforms, including AWS, Azure, GCP and O365.
- Develop relationships with clients with the intention to exceed client expectations.
- Demonstrate advanced understanding of various cloud architectures, deployment types (private, public, hybrid) and service types (IaaS, PaaS and SaaS).
- Engage with clients to develop, establish and enhance cloud security strategies and programs with supporting architectures, processes and controls.
- Manage and lead the performance of technical cloud security assessments and evaluations as well as developing and implementing recommended strategies for mitigating Cyber risk.
Required Education & Experience:
- 8+ years of related work experience in a similar consulting practice or function, servicing cross- industry clients at a national level.
- Experience in project management and the ability to clearly communicate cloud security concepts verbally on both a formal and informal basis to all levels of client staff.
- Experience working with leading cloud service provider platforms (Azure, AWS, GCP, O365) and their related services promoting a strong security posture.
- Certification(s) Required: Obtained or demonstrates an active pursuit of one or more of the following certifications: Certified Information Systems Security Professional (CISSP), Certificate of Cloud Security Knowledge (CCSK) from Cloud Security Alliance (CSA), or other related cloud security certifications.
- Experience with cloud security assessment tools such as those offered by Crowdstrike, Rapid7, and Tenable.
- Experience assessing and implementing solutions and controls in accordance with leading cloud security practices, including the areas of administration, IAM, logging and monitoring, compute environments, networking, storage and data protection.
- Hands-on technical cloud engineering experience performing configurations and deploying workloads is a plus.
- Experience developing and managing client relationships to drive pipeline activities and support the development of the account.
- Familiarity with leading security frameworks and standards, such as National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) Cybersecurity Framework (CSF), International Organization for Standardization (ISO) 27001/2, Cloud Security Alliance (CSA) Cloud Controls Matrix (CCM).
- Bachelor’s and/or Master’s degree in Information Technology, Computer Science or Cybersecurity related field is required.