As a Senior Consultant - Cyber Defense and Resilience, you will help deliver security engineering solutions that modernize client security operations across monitoring, detection, response, and ...
As a Senior Consultant - Cyber Defense and Resilience, you will help deliver security engineering solutions that modernize client security operations across monitoring, detection, response, and ...
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$106K - $144K/yr
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Join Deloitte's Cyber Defense & Resilience team focused on patching, remediation, and exposure reduction. In this role, you'll work directly with client stakeholders to prioritize vulnerabilities ...
Contribute to the development of Cyber Defense & Resilience assets, methodologies, and market offerings related to Crisis & Incident Response and Technical Resilience. * Support security awareness ...
Contribute to the development of Cyber Defense & Resilience assets, methodologies, and market offerings related to Crisis & Incident Response and Technical Resilience. * Support security awareness ...
Contribute to the development of Cyber Defense & Resilience assets, methodologies, and market offerings related to Crisis & Incident Response and Technical Resilience. * Support security awareness ...
Contribute to the development of Cyber Defense & Resilience assets, methodologies, and market offerings related to Crisis & Incident Response and Technical Resilience. * Support security awareness ...
Contribute to the development of Cyber Defense & Resilience assets, methodologies, and market offerings related to Crisis & Incident Response and Technical Resilience. * Support security awareness ...
Contribute to the development of Cyber Defense & Resilience assets, methodologies, and market offerings related to Crisis & Incident Response and Technical Resilience. * Support security awareness ...
Contribute to the development of Cyber Defense & Resilience assets, methodologies, and market offerings related to Crisis & Incident Response and Technical Resilience. * Support security awareness ...
Contribute to the development of Cyber Defense & Resilience assets, methodologies, and market offerings related to Crisis & Incident Response and Technical Resilience. * Support security awareness ...
Partner with Cyber Defense, Product Cybersecurity, Manufacturing/OT, and Third-Party Cybersecurity to align intelligence to GM's priority risks and translate requirements into collection and ...
Partner with Cyber Defense, Product Cybersecurity, Manufacturing/OT, and Third-Party Cybersecurity to align intelligence to GM's priority risks and translate requirements into collection and ...
Partner with Cyber Defense, Product Cybersecurity, Manufacturing/OT, and Third-Party Cybersecurity to align intelligence to GM's priority risks and translate requirements into collection and ...
Partner with Cyber Defense, Product Cybersecurity, Manufacturing/OT, and Third-Party Cybersecurity to align intelligence to GM's priority risks and translate requirements into collection and ...
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Work you'll do As a Cyber SecOps Senior Consultant on the Cyber Defense & Resilience team, you will be responsible for: * Designing and implementing secure, scalable, and resilient Google SecOps ...
Work you'll do As a Cyber SecOps Senior Consultant on the Cyber Defense & Resilience team, you will be responsible for: * Designing and implementing secure, scalable, and resilient Google SecOps ...
Work you'll do As a Cyber SecOps Senior Consultant on the Cyber Defense & Resilience team, you will be responsible for: * Designing and implementing secure, scalable, and resilient Google SecOps ...
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Work you'll do As a Palo Alto SecOps, Senior Consultant on the Cyber Defense & Resilience team, you will be responsible for: * Leading the design and deployment of Next-Generation SOC platforms ...
Advanced Cyber Threat Response & Forensics Lead/Manager
Lansing, MI · On-site
$112K - $152K/yr
Champion the development of Deloitte's Cyber Defense & Resilience market offerings around Crisis & Incident Response and Technical Resilience, ensuring alignment with industry best practices, leading ...
Advanced Cyber Threat Response & Forensics Lead/Manager
Lansing, MI · On-site
$112K - $152K/yr
Champion the development of Deloitte's Cyber Defense & Resilience market offerings around Crisis & Incident Response and Technical Resilience, ensuring alignment with industry best practices, leading ...
Advanced Cyber Threat Response & Forensics Lead/Manager
Midland, MI · On-site
$95K - $128K/yr
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Advanced Cyber Threat Response & Forensics Lead/Manager
Midland, MI · On-site
$95K - $128K/yr
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Advanced Cyber Threat Response & Forensics Lead/Manager
Detroit, MI · On-site
$109K - $148K/yr
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Advanced Cyber Threat Response & Forensics Lead/Manager
Detroit, MI · On-site
$109K - $148K/yr
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Advanced Cyber Threat Response & Forensics Lead/Manager
Grand Rapids, MI · On-site
$106K - $144K/yr
Champion the development of Deloitte's Cyber Defense & Resilience market offerings around Crisis & Incident Response and Technical Resilience, ensuring alignment with industry best practices, leading ...
Advanced Cyber Threat Response & Forensics Lead/Manager
Grand Rapids, MI · On-site
$106K - $144K/yr
Champion the development of Deloitte's Cyber Defense & Resilience market offerings around Crisis & Incident Response and Technical Resilience, ensuring alignment with industry best practices, leading ...
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Work you'll do As a Palo Alto SecOps, Senior Consultant on the Cyber Defense & Resilience team, you will be responsible for: * Leading the design and deployment of Next-Generation SOC platforms ...
As part of Deloitte's Cyber Defense & Resilience team, you'll work closely with client stakeholders to drive patch governance, remediation execution, and operational improvement across enterprise ...
As part of Deloitte's Cyber Defense & Resilience team, you'll work closely with client stakeholders to drive patch governance, remediation execution, and operational improvement across enterprise ...
As part of Deloitte's Cyber Defense & Resilience team, you'll work closely with client stakeholders to drive patch governance, remediation execution, and operational improvement across enterprise ...
As part of Deloitte's Cyber Defense & Resilience team, you'll work closely with client stakeholders to drive patch governance, remediation execution, and operational improvement across enterprise ...
The Cyber Defense & Resilience team works with clients to design, implement, and operate programs that help protect critical assets, support digital transformation, and respond to evolving threats.
The Cyber Defense & Resilience team works with clients to design, implement, and operate programs that help protect critical assets, support digital transformation, and respond to evolving threats.
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| Aspect | Cyber Defense | Cyber Security Analyst |
|---|---|---|
| Certifications | CompTIA Security+, CISSP, CEH | CompTIA Security+, CISSP, CEH |
| Work Environment | Defense teams, security operations centers (SOCs) | Security teams, incident response units |
| Employer & Industry Usage | Government agencies, military, large corporations | Private sector companies, consulting firms |
| Primary Focus | Protecting networks from attacks, active defense | Monitoring, analyzing, and responding to security threats |
Cyber Defense and Cyber Security Analyst roles share many certifications and work environments, but Cyber Defense typically emphasizes active protection and threat mitigation within defense teams, while Cyber Security Analysts focus on monitoring and analyzing security incidents. Both are vital in safeguarding digital assets, often working together within security operations centers.
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Job description
As a Senior Consultant - Cyber Defense and Resilience, you will help deliver security engineering solutions that modernize client security operations across monitoring, detection, response, and automation. In this client-facing role, you will work directly with client stakeholders to design and implement solutions across security information and event management, security orchestration automation and response, telemetry, and artificial intelligence-enabled workflows. You will translate operational requirements into deployable capabilities that improve analyst efficiency, alert quality, and response speed.
Recruiting for this role ends on 12/31/2026.
Work you'll do
As a Senior Consultant - Cyber Defense and Resilience on the Cyber Defense & Resilience team, you will be responsible for:
- Designing and implementing security operations solutions across security information and event management, security orchestration automation and response, telemetry, detection, and response platforms
- Developing integrations, automation playbooks, and data pipelines that support ingestion, enrichment, triage, investigation, and response workflows
- Collaborating with security operations center analysts, threat hunters, and client stakeholders to prioritize, test, and tune detection content and operational processes
- Translating security operations requirements into technical designs, deployment plans, and production-ready engineering solutions
- Supporting embedded client delivery by leading day-to-day workstream execution, documenting outcomes, and contributing reusable assets and implementation patterns
A successful candidate would possess these skills:
- Ability to work independently and collaborate as part of a team
- Effective written and verbal communication skills
- Meticulous attention to detail and quality of work product
- Ability to build and sustain professional relationships
- Ability to lead projects or workstreams
- Ability to manage and prioritize multiple tasks in a fast-paced and dynamic environment
- Strong interpersonal skills and professional demeanor
- Ability to meet deadlines
- Ability to provide clear guidance to others
The team
Deloitte's Cyber Defense & Resilience team helps clients transform security operations through improved monitoring, detection engineering, automation, analytics, and threat-informed response. The team works with organizations to build scalable operational capabilities across enterprise and cloud environments while improving resilience across the cyber lifecycle.
Qualifications
Required:
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Cybersecurity, Information Systems, Engineering, or a related field, or equivalent work experience
- 6+ years of experience in security operations, detection engineering, security engineering, or enterprise cyber defense
- Experience designing, implementing, or optimizing security information and event management, security orchestration automation and response, detection, telemetry, or response workflows across enterprise security platforms
- Experience building and maintaining integrations, automations, or engineering workflows using Python or a similar scripting language
- Experience working directly with clients or internal stakeholders to translate operational requirements into technical solutions
- Ability to travel 50%, on average, based on the work you do and the clients and industries/sectors you serve.
- Limited immigration sponsorship may be available.
Preferred:
- Experience across multiple security platforms such as security information and event management, security orchestration automation and response, extended detection and response, endpoint detection and response, threat intelligence, or case management tools
- Experience with Amazon Web Services, Microsoft Azure, or Google Cloud, including security telemetry and cloud-native security services
- Experience with threat hunting, cyber threat intelligence, or purple team collaboration
- Experience with data pipeline, observability, event-driven, or workflow orchestration technologies
- Experience applying artificial intelligence, machine learning, or large language model workflows to security operations
- Relevant industry certifications such as Security+, Global Information Assurance Certification Security Essentials, Global Information Assurance Certification Certified Intrusion Analyst, Global Information Assurance Certification Certified Incident Handler, Certified Information Systems Security Professional, Certified Cloud Security Professional, Splunk, or cloud security certifications
The wage range for this role takes into account the wide range of factors that are considered in making compensation decisions including but not limited to skill sets; experience and training; licensure and certifications; and other business and organizational needs. The disclosed range estimate has not been adjusted for the applicable geographic differential associated with the location at which the position may be filled. At Deloitte, it is not typical for an individual to be hired at or near the top of the range for their role and compensation decisions are dependent on the facts and circumstances of each case. A reasonable estimate of the current range is $105,400 to $207,800.
You may also be eligible to participate in a discretionary annual incentive program, subject to the rules governing the program, whereby an award, if any, depends on various factors, including, without limitation, individual and organizational performance.
#CyberCDR27
Qualifications:As a Senior Consultant - Cyber Defense and Resilience, you will help deliver security engineering solutions that modernize client security operations across monitoring, detection, response, and automation. In this client-facing role, you will work directly with client stakeholders to design and implement solutions across security information and event management, security orchestration automation and response, telemetry, and artificial intelligence-enabled workflows. You will translate operational requirements into deployable capabilities that improve analyst efficiency, alert quality, and response speed.
Recruiting for this role ends on 12/31/2026.
Work you'll do
As a Senior Consultant - Cyber Defense and Resilience on the Cyber Defense & Resilience team, you will be responsible for:
- Designing and implementing security operations solutions across security information and event management, security orchestration automation and response, telemetry, detection, and response platforms
- Developing integrations, automation playbooks, and data pipelines that support ingestion, enrichment, triage, investigation, and response workflows
- Collaborating with security operations center analysts, threat hunters, and client stakeholders to prioritize, test, and tune detection content and operational processes
- Translating security operations requirements into technical designs, deployment plans, and production-ready engineering solutions
- Supporting embedded client delivery by leading day-to-day workstream execution, documenting outcomes, and contributing reusable assets and implementation patterns
A successful candidate would possess these skills:
- Ability to work independently and collaborate as part of a team
- Effective written and verbal communication skills
- Meticulous attention to detail and quality of work product
- Ability to build and sustain professional relationships
- Ability to lead projects or workstreams
- Ability to manage and prioritize multiple tasks in a fast-paced and dynamic environment
- Strong interpersonal skills and professional demeanor
- Ability to meet deadlines
- Ability to provide clear guidance to others
The team
Deloitte's Cyber Defense & Resilience team helps clients transform security operations through improved monitoring, detection engineering, automation, analytics, and threat-informed response. The team works with organizations to build scalable operational capabilities across enterprise and cloud environments while improving resilience across the cyber lifecycle.
Qualifications
Required:
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Cybersecurity, Information Systems, Engineering, or a related field, or equivalent work experience
- 6+ years of experience in security operations, detection engineering, security engineering, or enterprise cyber defense
- Experience designing, implementing, or optimizing security information and event management, security orchestration automation and response, detection, telemetry, or response workflows across enterprise security platforms
- Experience building and maintaining integrations, automations, or engineering workflows using Python or a similar scripting language
- Experience working directly with clients or internal stakeholders to translate operational requirements into technical solutions
- Ability to travel 50%, on average, based on the work you do and the clients and industries/sectors you serve.
- Limited immigration sponsorship may be available.
Preferred:
- Experience across multiple security platforms such as security information and event management, security orchestration automation and response, extended detection and response, endpoint detection and response, threat intelligence, or case management tools
- Experience with Amazon Web Services, Microsoft Azure, or Google Cloud, including security telemetry and cloud-native security services
- Experience with threat hunting, cyber threat intelligence, or purple team collaboration
- Experience with data pipeline, observability, event-driven, or workflow orchestration technologies
- Experience applying artificial intelligence, machine learning, or large language model workflows to security operations
- Relevant industry certifications such as Security+, Global Information Assurance Certification Security Essentials, Global Information Assurance Certification Certified Intrusion Analyst, Global Information Assurance Certification Certified Incident Handler, Certified Information Systems Security Professional, Certified Cloud Security Professional, Splunk, or cloud security certifications
The wage range for this role takes into account the wide range of factors that are considered in making compensation decisions including but not limited to skill sets; experience and training; licensure and certifications; and other business and organizational needs. The disclosed range estimate has not been adjusted for the applicable geographic differential associated with the location at which the position may be filled. At Deloitte, it is not typical for an individual to be hired at or near the top of the range for their role and compensation decisions are dependent on the facts and circumstances of each case. A reasonable estimate of the current range is $105,400 to $207,800.
You may also be eligible to participate in a discretionary annual incentive program, subject to the rules governing the program, whereby an award, if any, depends on various factors, including, without limitation, individual and organizational performance.
#CyberCDR27
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