Experienced Consultant, Cybersecurity

Responsibilities

• Provide strategic cybersecurity advisory, due diligence, and consulting services for enterprise clients, ranging from policy definition to implementation, adoption, and enforcement
• Contribute to/deliver our CAPE program - Cybersecurity Advisory for Private Equity - to provide ongoing visibility into security practices, risks, and threats across a PE firm's entire asset portfolio
• Leverage industry-accepted frameworks to lead current-state risk and controls review of existing security organizations- compliance adherence, processes, technologies- while developing implementation strategies and roadmaps to harden the environment
• Perform assessments and audits, identify risks, highlight vulnerabilities, and determine client's ability to protect against attacks, detect active threats, and respond/recover from incidents
• Utilize Intellio™ Hunt, our homegrown proprietary software, along with other tools to search for indicators of compromise across cloud and on-premise environments, providing insight into past and current incidents
• Promote thought leadership in emerging cybersecurity technologies and best practices through activities like blogs, white papers, attending industry events, and Center of Excellence contributions
• Act as coach and mentor to junior cybersecurity consultants
• Leverage AI tools to accelerate analysis, synthesize complex information, and support data-driven recommendations for clients, exercising sound judgment in evaluating outputs.
• Apply AI technologies (e.g., generative AI, automation tools, data models) to enhance insights, improve delivery efficiency, and elevate the quality of client outcomes.

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in relevant field preferred, or equivalent experience required
• Consulting firm/industry experience preferred
• 3-5 years of experience in Cybersecurity, Information Security, and/or Tech Consulting
• Background in any common cybersecurity domains - risk & compliance, privacy, strategy & operations, incident response, threat hunting, cloud security, application security, etc.
• Experience working on security risk & controls assessment projects, leveraging industry-accepted frameworks such as NIST CSF
• Understanding of high-level application, database, and network security principles for risk identification, qualification, mitigation, and analysis
• Comfortable conveying complex cybersecurity concepts to both technical and non-technical audiences
• Proficient verbal, presentation/facilitation, and written communication skills
• Willingness to travel for client engagements (up to 50%)
• Hybrid role (2x per week in office)
• Must be eligible to work in US without sponsorship
• Experience integrating AI tools (e.g., ChatGPT) into day-to-day workflows to enhance productivity and insight generation, coupled with strong critical thinking to assess accuracy, mitigate bias, and ensure high-quality outputs.
• Seattle or Washington, D.C.
• $96,600 - $113,600 USD
• Los Angeles
• $101,200 - $119,000 USD
• New York City or San Francisco
• $105,800 - $124,400 USD
• A location not listed above
• $92,000 - $108,200 USD
• Other consultancies talk at you.
• At West Monroe, we work with you.
• We're a global business and technology consulting firm passionate about creating measurable value for our clients, delivering real-world solutions.
• The combination of business and technology is not new, but how we bring them together is unique. We're fluent in both. We know that technology alone is not the answer, but how we apply it is. We

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Additional Information

Are you ready to make an impact? West Monroe is excited to hire a Experienced Consultant for our growing Cybersecurity Practice to focus on IT security advisory & solutions delivery across various industries! Project work could include security controls audits/recommendations, risk advisory, compliance & privacy assessments, threat hunting, incident response planning, M&A/PE due diligence, and/or cybersecurity strategy & operations. This is a rewarding opportunity to join a high-growth, employee-centric firm and play a pivotal role in improving IT security posture across complex, enterprise client environments.

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