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[Remote] Senior Consultant, FedRAMP Assessment

Remote Full-time Live

Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Coalfire is on a mission to make the world a safer place by solving cybersecurity challenges. They are seeking a Senior Consultant to support their FedRAMP Assessment team, providing advice, leading audits, and ensuring quality service delivery.

Responsibilities

  • Provides advice to customers on issues affecting the scope of work in a manner that provides additional value
  • Develop documentation and author recommendations associate with your findings on how to improve the customer’s security posture in accordance with appropriate controls
  • Leads audits/assessments including audit plan preparation, review of documentation and evidence, evaluation of procedures, and client interviews
  • Maintains strong depth of knowledge in one or more cybersecurity frameworks
  • Prepare, review and approve assessment reports
  • Manage priorities, tasks and hours on projects in conjunction with the project manager to achieve delivery utilization targets
  • Ensures quality products and services are delivered on time
  • Escalates client and project issues to management in a timely manner to inform and engage the necessary resources to address the issue
  • Provide mentorship to team members in areas of audit, assessment, technical review and writing
  • Interfaces with clients through entire engagement, interacting with all levels of client organizations
  • Establish and maintain positive collaborative relationships with clients and stakeholders
  • Continuous professional development in maintaining industry specific certifications. Maintains strong depth of knowledge in the practice area
  • Collaborates with project managers, quality management, sales and other delivery team members to drive customer satisfaction and meet project deliverables
  • Establishes account relationships and identifies upsell and cross sell opportunities and escalates to sales
  • Draft audit programs that sufficiently address both the required objectives of the regulatory body and the complexity of the client environment
  • Leads interview and inquiry walkthroughs with clients to determine the conformity of environments against stated requirements
  • Assess security vulnerabilities against the appropriate security frameworks
  • Pursues and corroborates conclusions derived from inquiry procedures with client while ensuring diligent interview notes are captured
  • Offline and remote evidence inspection of client provided documentation; appropriately mark artifacts requiring follow-up or additional clarification
  • Educate and interpret compliance activities for clients
  • Understands how to apply quality standards and adheres to a minimum benchmark for quality assurance throughout the documentation of each work product or deliverable

Skills

  • Bachelor's degree (four-year college or university) in IT or business, or equivalent combination of education and work experience
  • Five to ten (5-10) years of experience as a consultant within professional IT services
  • Must hold one of the following certifications: CISSP, CISA, CISM, CCSP, CISSP-ISSAP, CISSP-ISSEP, CISSP-ISSMP, CFR, CCISO, GCED, GCIH, GSLC
  • Deep experience with government compliance, including FISMA, FedRAMP, and DoD RMF
  • Strong knowledge of NIST Special Publications 800-30, 800-37, 800-53
  • Experience with every step within the delivery of Certification and Accreditation (C&A) / Assessment and Authorization (A&A) packages that have obtained and maintained full authorization to operate (ATO)
  • Experience with virtualization or cloud technologies
  • Familiarity with statutes and regulations across multiple industries relevant to IT (e.g. SOX 404, HIPAA, FedRAMP, GLB, Patriot Act)
  • Knowledge of information security related solutions, tools, and utilities
  • Excellent verbal and written skills
  • Willing to travel up to 25%
  • Hold Cloud Security focused certifications (AWS, Azure, CCSK, etc.)

Benefits

  • Flexible work model that empowers you to choose when and where you’ll work most effectively – whether you’re at home or an office
  • Employee resource groups
  • Participate in in-person and virtual events
  • Paid parental leave
  • Flexible time off
  • Certification and training reimbursement
  • Digital mental health and wellbeing support membership
  • Comprehensive insurance options

Company Overview

  • Coalfire is the premier Cybersecurity and Compliance Services leader for the tech, healthcare, and finance industries. It was founded in 2001, and is headquartered in Chicago, Illinois, US, with a workforce of 1001-5000 employees. Its website is https://www.coalfire.com?utm_source=LinkedIn&utm_medium=organicsocial.
  • Company H1B Sponsorship

  • Coalfire has a track record of offering H1B sponsorships, with 1 in 2026, 3 in 2025, 4 in 2024, 3 in 2023, 6 in 2022, 2 in 2021, 4 in 2020. Please note that this does not guarantee sponsorship for this specific role.
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