Job Description

We are looking for a Senior Security Consultant – FortiGuard Proactive Services to work in a dynamic and exciting new position reporting to the Director of our FortiGuard Security Consulting Services. In this very hands-on customer facing role the consultant’s main objective is to deliver Fortinet’s proactive consulting services ensuring the customer is better prepared to deal with a cyber security incident. Leveraging skills and experience in delivering security assessments and incident response, the consultant will be responsible for incident response readiness assessments helping to identify gaps, deliver table top exercises that are designed to test an organization’s incident response plan and assisting in identifying security gaps in tools or processes, and assist customer organization’s in the development of incident response playbooks that are part of an organization’s larger Incident Response Plan. As a secondary objective the consultant will assist with continued development of our current and future assessment type services, and work closely with the sales teams.

To be successful in this role the candidate must possess strong consulting skills, technical skills and able to work under tight timelines.

Responsibilities:

• Lead customer facing proactive services engagements
• Develop and deliver tabletop exercises to customers
• Perform readiness assessments on customers’ security posture and Incident Response Plan
• Assist in the development of customer Incident Response Plans and playbooks.

• Continue to focus on the maturation of proactive services

• Deliver Response Trainings to customers

• Stay current with cyber security compliance, standards and framework revisions including NIST CSF, ISO/IEC27001, CIS, PCI, HIPPA, etc.

• Review current security programs and define the steps needed for meeting the applicable cybersecurity and information assurance instructions

• Assist in the development and recommendations of network topologies

• Develop complete and informative reports and presentations for both executive and technical audience

Required Skills:

• Ability to communicate effectively
• Experience interfacing with customers
• Experience building and delivering table top exercises
• Knowledgeable of multiple cyber security compliance frameworks and standards
• Knowledgeable in the development and use of incident response playbooks
• Experience with vulnerability assessments and cyber security audits
• Ability to assess and implement various security controls
• Understanding of incident response processes and tools
• Experience with delivering educational services and trainings
• A solid understanding of Active Directory and how to secure is a plus
• Strong knowledge of operating system internals and endpoint security experience.
• Able to communicate with both technical and executive personnel
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills a must
• Highly motivated, self-driven and able to work both independently and within a team

Education:

• Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Engineering, Computer Science or related field
• Or 5+ years’ experience with cyber security assessments and incident response

Fortinet makes possible a digital world that we can always trust through its mission to protect people, devices, and data everywhere. This is why the world’s largest enterprises, service providers, and government organizations choose Fortinet to securely accelerate their digital journey. The Fortinet Security Fabric platform delivers broad, integrated, and automated protections across the entire digital attack surface, securing critical devices, data, applications, and connections from the data center to the cloud to the home office. Ranking #1 in the most security appliances shipped worldwide, more than 615,000 customers trust Fortinet to protect their businesses. And the Fortinet NSE Training Institute, an initiative of Fortinet’s Training Advancement Agenda (TAA), provides one of the largest and broadest training programs in the industry to make cyber training and new career opportunities available to everyone.