Sr Identity Access Management Consultant - Zero Trust - Remote

The Senior Security Consultant is responsible for providing expert-level information security consulting services in a technological and advisory capacity to Lumen customers. The consultant must possess an operational security mindset, superior customer interaction skills, and a broad perspective on information security topics.

*This is a Work From Home, US-based role on a growing team!

Day-to-Day Overview:
•    Operate in both single- and multi-person customer-facing engagements to achieve Lumen delivery expectations
•    Provide thought leadership, develop and build, and productized IT security professional services
•    Provides solution development for the Security Advisory Services for strategic initiatives
•    Collaborate with solutions architects, product development and support teams to help customers and partners learn and propose productized consulting services offerings
•    Assess broad trends in the IT security space and propose, develop and institutionalize simple solutions that address evolving customer needs
•    Create reusable productized security services and assets (collaterals, estimation models, case studies, statements of work and proposal templates)
•    Collaborate with Lumen team members from engineering, product training, and support to help productize consulting services
•    Work with practice leads, sales and sales support, and business teams to integrate customer feedback as input to security productized services
•    Demonstrate ability to integrate parties that may be required during solution development to ensure seamless integration, scoping and pricing for productized services
•    Provide domain leadership across various Security technologies and service offerings
•    Demonstrate knowledge of end-to-end information security strategies, standards, processes, and tools necessary for Security solution design
•    Demonstrate technical security and advisory leadership for customers, sales, and other consultants

Essential duties:    
•    Work directly for the Lumen Security Product teams to create/productize/pre-package new product initiatives
•    Work with all the necessary security points of contact within Lumen to support the design of security consulting service offerings
•    Provide subject matter expertise, understand requirement nuances, and transform a service concept into an offering
•    Create standardized deliverable templates, statement of work templates, pricing templates, tear sheets, sales presentations, and sales collaterals
•    Must be capable of creating security consulting service offerings with minimal oversight: working in Agile environment with product teams building pre-packaged services, working with marketing to brand and advertise offerings, and educate sales teams to sell the new services
•    Lead and deliver advisory security consulting engagements

Requirements:   
•    5-10 years of experience as an information security professional, 5-7 of which should be in information security advisory consulting
•    Solid understanding of security tasks related to Windows, Linux/Unix, networking, and security platforms in corporate IT infrastructure environments

Working knowledge is expected in the following areas:
o    SASE Services
o    Zero Trust Networking (ZTN)
o    Secure Web Gateway (SWG)
o    Cloud Security Access Broker (CASB)
o    Software Defined – Wide Access Networking (SD-WAN)
o    Security Strategy and Architecture Consulting
o    Data Protection

•    Ability to work within an Agile environment
•    Excellent written and verbal communication and presentation skills
•    Able to successfully interact with audiences that may include senior executives, IT management, and technical staff
•    Process-oriented with a focus on attention to detail
•    Work well with others and able to work in a self-directed manner
•    Demonstrate initiative
•    Ability to work well under pressure
•    Willingness to learn and become proficient in new technologies, products, and services
•    Maintain a technical skill set that that matches the evolving security of Lumen customers and corresponding security services
•    Commitment to excellence and willingness to do what is necessary to get the job done
•    Ability to travel in support of meetings, presentations, conferences, and similar events

Education and Certifications:
•    Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science with preferable focus on Cybersecurity and/or equivalent experience
•    Preference for candidates with at least one of the following: CISSP, GSEC, CISM, CISA, and/or comparable security certifications