Senior Technical Consultant - CTEM / Vulnerability Management Engineer

AHEAD · United States

  • Senior
  • Full-time
  • $170,000 – $180,000
  • Posted 2026-11-04
  • Confirmed live on 10 November 2026

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Job description

AHEAD builds platforms for digital business. By weaving together advances in cloud infrastructure, automation and analytics, and software delivery, we help enterprises deliver on the promise of digital transformation.
 
At AHEAD, we prioritize creating a culture of belonging, where all perspectives and voices are represented, valued, respected, and heard. We create spaces to empower everyone to speak up, make change, and drive the culture at AHEAD. 
 
We are an equal opportunity employer, and do not discriminate based on an individual's race, national origin, color, gender, gender identity, gender expression, sexual orientation, religion, age, disability, marital status, or any other protected characteristic under applicable law, whether actual or perceived. 
 
We embrace all candidates that will contribute to the diversification and enrichment of ideas and perspectives at AHEAD. 

Cyber Recovery Architecture Managers must be experienced in the Respond and Recover Security Functions including but not limited to cyber recovery, vulnerability management, and resilient architectures. Managers lead diverse teams of consultants with varying skills to meet and exceed client expectations through scoped engagements. This role will lead multiple client engagements (including recovery assessments, infrastructure dependency mappings, etc.) or support larger sized client engagements. Senior Consultants in general contribute to client delivery by executing the necessary technical or process-focused tasks, producing high-quality architectural and security artifacts, and presenting findings and recommendations throughout an engagement. Senior Consultants may be assigned a Project Coordinator role to ensure delivery engagements adhere to the associated timeline, support project reporting requirements, and maintain alignment to the intended objectives. Senior Consultants are the primary leaders of AHEAD's security delivery teams responsible for assessments, designs, and operational documentation.Managers also support business development activities alongside a sales specialist to help qualify client needs and expectations, particularly where security architecture, design tradeoffs, or solution feasibility must be evaluated. They may be directly engaged in client-facing interactions to assess current-state environments, articulate future-state security architectures, and produce and/or present sales proposals or support client-visioning workshops.Lastly, AHEAD Senior Consultants leverage their visibility and experience to contribute to the continuous improvement and maturation of in-practice service offerings and capabilities. This includes influencing architectural standards, design patterns, and security approaches, as well as positively impacting the service portfolio and individuals on the team through thought leadership and mentorship.

Responsibilities
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Lead client assessments of CTEM and vulnerability management programs, including reviewing asset discovery and inventory, exposure identification, vulnerability scanning and assessment, risk-based prioritization, remediation workflows, and validation practices.

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Request and analyze evidence of program maturity, relevant technology configurations, asset coverage, scanning practices, remediation processes, exception handling, reporting, and governance.

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Write consistent, detailed observations and practical recommendations based on risk to client environments and programs.

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Develop actionable remediation strategies and roadmaps that account for exposure severity, exploitability, business criticality, asset context, and operational dependencies.

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Advise clients on improving visibility into their attack surface, prioritizing exposures, and coordinating remediation across infrastructure, cloud, applications, and security teams.

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Support the design and implementation of vulnerability management and exposure management processes, including roles, ownership, service levels, metrics, and reporting.

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Evaluate security tools and integrations that support asset discovery, vulnerability assessment, exposure prioritization, remediation tracking, and validation.

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Perform technical analysis of client environments and dependencies to inform risk prioritization, remediation sequencing, and implementation planning.

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Lead and participate in the development of CTEM strategies, vulnerability management plans, procedures, runbooks, and playbooks.

Client Delivery
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Facilitate strategy, roadmap, design, and planning workshops for small to medium-sized engagements, anchoring discussions in architectural principles, security patterns, and measurable outcomes.

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Ensure customer expectations are appropriately set and managed.

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Drive and manage objectives, requirements gathering, project tasks and milestones, project status, dependencies, and timelines to ensure successful, on-time delivery aligned to business objectives.

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Lead or contribute to solution architect

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