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Senior Consultant, Network Security

coalfire

fulltime

Posted on: 6/14/2025

Required Skills:

Penetration TestingNetwork SecurityConsulting

Job Description:

About Coalfire

Coalfire is on a mission to make the world a safer place by solving our clients’ hardest cybersecurity challenges. We work at the cutting edge of technology to advise, assess, automate, and ultimately help companies navigate the ever-changing cybersecurity landscape. We are headquartered in Denver, Colorado with offices across the U.S. and U.K., and we support clients around the world. But that’s not who we are – that’s just what we do. We are thought leaders, consultants, and cybersecurity experts, but above all else, we are a team of passionate problem-solvers who are hungry to learn, grow, and make a difference.

Position Summary

The Senior Consultant works closely with Project Managers, Delivery Directors, and other Delivery team members to lead engagements, assessing the security of various types of client applications and supporting infrastructure against security best practices. The Senior Consultant is a technical leader with broad and deep technical skills, meeting the objectives of their engagements, collaborating with clients, mentoring teammates, and providing subject matter expertise across one or more technical domains. The Senior Consultant is a trusted advisor to clients, and through objective testing and results reporting, supports the client in making well-informed, risk-based decisions to improve overall security posture.

What You'll Do

  • Working independently and collaboratively with a team to both lead and support
  • Perform penetration testing on networks, with a focus on internal networks and exploiting Active Directory vulnerabilities
  • Dynamically flex your skills when assessing emerging or custom technologies.
  • Lead complex engagements to provide a technical consistency approach across multiple tests.
  • Contextualize vulnerabilities and assess realistic impact to a client accounting for mitigating and aggravating factors.
  • Manage priorities and tasks to achieve utilization targets.
  • Operate with professionalism both internally and with clients.
  • Ensure quality reports and services are delivered efficiently and on time.
  • Support sales and business growth by scoping out potential opportunities.
  • Maintains strong depth of knowledge in the practice area.
  • Collaborate with project managers, quality management, sales and other delivery team members to drive customer satisfaction and meet project deliverables.

What You'll Bring

  • Network penetration testing and assessment tradecraft and methodologies
  • Strong working knowledge of at least one programming or scripting languages
  • Strong understanding of security principles and industry best practices.
  • Minimum of 5 years’ experience in a consulting/professional services role
  • Minimum of 5 years’ experience in Network Security
  • Excellent consulting skills including:
    • Time management, performing adjacent tasks while ensuring on-time delivery, escalating issues as needed
    • Verbal communication, leading client calls for project kickoffs and debrief
    • Written communication
    • Report writing, for both executive audiences and technical staff
  • Expert proficiency in Network Penetration Testing, including internal network testing and exploiting Active Directory vulnerabilities
  • Excellent overall technical skills, with strong expertise in at least one of the following:
    • Social Engineering (both vishing & phishing)
    • Physical Penetration Testing
    • Mobile Application Penetration Testing
    • Thick Application Penetration Testing
    • Hardware Penetration Testing
    • Secure Code Review
    • Container Penetration Testing
    • Cloud Penetration Testing
    • Network Active Directory Penetration Testing
    • AI Penetration Testing

Bonus Points

  • OSCP, OSCE, OSEE offensive security certifications
  • Significant development and engineering backgrounds
  • Cloud Service penetration testing tradecraft and methodologies across multiple service providers (e.g. AWS, GCP, etc.).
  • Mobile platform and application penetration testing tradecraft and methodologies across both iOS and Android.
  • Red/Purple Team tradecraft and methodologies.
  • Social engineering in all its forms.