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alliantgroup
Houston, TX, United States
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Description
alliantgroup, LP is currently experiencing explosive growth! As a national consulting firm focused on being the voice to the middle market, our mission is simple: Strengthening American businesses. How do we do this? We hire the brightest talent with the most diverse backgrounds who are passionate about making a difference.
The Cybersecurity Associate assists a CISO or Senior Cybersecurity Consultant with performing cybersecurity assessments, education and awareness sharing, developing or improving policies and procedures, conducting exercises, and delivery of fractional information security officer support. The Associate may specialize in a particular discipline and continues to develop a platform of technical expertise over time.
Primary Duties & Responsibilities
Services Delivery:
• Develop client materials, presentations, and deliverables under the direction of a CISO or Senior Cybersecurity Consultant.
• Help identify and make recommendations on technical deficiencies, service performance issues, product utilization, bugs, and enhancements of a client’s information systems.
• Assist with recommending process improvements in order to drive efficiencies.
• Develop customized reports and presentations, and provide technical knowledge transfer and analysis to clients on performance status, trends, and metrics.
• Prepare and deliver periodic client updates on status and process of projects.
• Create and maintain internal operational reports on performance metrics of client engagements, including deliverables, billing, fees, and collections.
Professional Development:
• Attend training sessions or shadowing activities, and obtain industry related certifications as determined by the Manager.
• Assist with developing best practices, strategies, methodologies, documentation and templates suitable for use by other Associates, Consultants, and Analysts.
Qualifications
• Bachelor's degree (B.A./B.S.) or 3-year diploma in Engineering, Computer Science, Management Information Systems, or a Technology related field.
• Technical certifications such as SANS GCIA, GCIH, CISA, SISM, CISSP, CEH or similar technology certifications are a plus.
Other Position Requirements:
• Some direct system engineering or support experience involving hardware, software and services at an enterprise level for at least one product lines in the designated practice.
• Some direct involvement in working with internal and external teams to implement and troubleshoot security configuration on hardware, software and services.
• Direct experience presenting ideas and solutions to clients and adapting presentation style to fit particular client situations.
• Demonstrated knowledge of company products and services.
• Ability to establish positive working relationships and conduct complex and important work critical to the organization in a team, consulting environment.
• Proven ability to achieve high level of Customer Satisfaction on all engagements.
• Demonstrated ability to communicate in clear, concise and crisp messages to a variety of audiences that instigate appropriate actions.
• Proven ability to effectively present in a variety of formal and informal settings: one-on-one, small and large groups, using a variety of presentation methods to sustain the audiences’ engagement.
• Ability to manage time to focus on priorities and handle multiple tasks simultaneously.
• Demonstrated ability to establish a collaborative approach to problem solving, ensuring that solutions generated by the team are tested and proven.
• Proven ability to proactively step into team leadership roles and empower others to increase contribution and level of responsibility.
• Word, Excel, Visio, PowerPoint and Outlook skills.
• Demonstrated resourcefulness in working with disparate client and internal departments to deliver client support services.