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 Architects must be experienced in the Respond and Recover Security Functions including but not limited to cyber recovery, incident response, vulnerability management, and resilient architectures. Technical Consultants collaborate with a diverse team of consultants with varying skills to meet and exceed client expectations through scoped engagements. This role will effectively lead small client engagements or support larger sized client engagements. Technical Consultants 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. Technical 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. Technical Consultants are the primary driving force of AHEAD's security delivery teams responsible for assessments, designs, and operational documentation.
Technical Consultants can 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 Technical 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
- Lead cyber resilience assessments of clients including requesting and analyzing evidence of recovery program maturity, recovery technology configurations, cloud environment implementations, backup processes, network segmentation, and access controls.
- Write consistent, detailed observations and practical recommendations based on risk to the programs.
- Draft detailed architecture designs including key recovery technology (Rubrik, Cohesity, Commvault) configurations
- Proactively advise clients on Isolated Recovery Environment design principles including but not limited to network segmentation, least privilege access, and time synchronization.
- Perform highly technical business impact analysis including infrastructure dependency mapping for development of bill of materials
- Lead and participate in tabletop exercises and development of Cyber Recovery Plans, Procedures, Runbooks, and Playbooks.
Required Knowledge
- Strong knowledge of ransomware recovery best practices, including clean-room/secure enclave designs, immutability, and re-infection prevention.
- Proficiency with modern backup/recovery platforms (e.g., Rubrik, Cohesity, Veritas NetBackup, Veeam) — especially Isolated Recovery Environments (IRE/CIRE) configuration and deployment.
- Experience with virtualization (VMware, Hyper-V), cloud environments (AWS, Azure, Google Cloud), and network isolation/segmentation.
- Solid understanding of identity & access management (IAM), Active Directory/Entra ID in isolated contexts, RBAC, conditional access, and privileged access controls.
Qualifications
- Undergraduate technical degree in Engineering, Computer Science, IT Management, or Cybersecurity preferred, but not required
- Minimum of 5 years relevant professional relevant experience
- 2 professional and/or technical certifications, including industry-recognized certifications which align to AHEAD’s Security service portfolio
- Demonstrated experience consulting on secure architecture and/or solution design within complex enterprise environments
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills (must be highly proficient in Microsoft Office Suite)
Why AHEAD:
Through our daily work and internal groups like Moving Women AHEAD and RISE AHEAD, we value and benefit from diversity of people, ideas, experience, and everything in between.
We fuel growth by stacking our office with top-notch technologies in a multi-million-dollar lab, by encouraging cross department training and development, sponsoring certifications and credentials for continued learning.
USA Employment Benefits include:
- Medical, Dental, and Vision Insurance
- 401(k)
- Paid company holidays
- Paid time off
- Paid parental and caregiver leave
The compensation range indicated in this posting reflects the On-Target Earnings (“OTE”) for this role, which includes a base salary and any applicable target bonus amount. This OTE range may vary based on the candidate’s relevant experience, qualifications, and geographic location.
