Cyber Data Protection/PKI Specialist Senior Consultant

About the role

Serve as a subject matter expert and trusted advisor to our clients, assisting them to evaluate strategic and practical data protection and encryption requirements based on new and emerging data risks, advising on best practices for data encryption, decryption, and secure key management.

Aid in the delivery of client engagements, ensuring success by:

• Driving day-to-day execution, communicating updates to clients and firm leadership
• Providing leadership and support to delivery teams to ensure completion and accuracy of high-quality work products
• Tracking and reporting on project timelines to ensure on time and on budget delivery

Stay up to date on emerging encryption technologies (e.g., post-quantum cryptography, confidential computing, secure enclaves, envelope encryption) and industry trends around cyber risk, data protection and cryptography practices. Proactively evaluate and recommend new tools and solutions to enhance data security.

Responsibilities

Design, implement, and operate technology and process solutions to reduce data risks, develop and lead the implementation of encryption strategies to protect sensitive data across various environments, including cloud, on-premises, and hybrid infrastructures, to manage the deployment and lifecycle of PKI systems, ensuring robust and scalable certificate management processes, monitor and maintain the health of certificate infrastructures to prevent downtime and security breaches, and assist with developing requirements, evaluating vendor solutions, architecting, implementing and operating data protection solutions.

Requirements

Required: Bachelor's degree in Cybersecurity, Information Security, Engineering, Computer Science, Information Technology or related field, 5+ years of professional experience within data protection and information security, 5+ years with PKI concepts, 2+ years of professional experience managing and implementing various encryption technologies, 2+ years with CLM platforms, 2+ years with cryptographic standards and protocols, 2+ years certificate discovery, inventory, automation, renewal, and compliance monitoring, 2+ years supporting strategy, architecture, roadmap, and implementation workstreams, 2+ years of hands-on technical experience with one or more data protection technologies, 2+ years with CLM platforms such as AppViewX, Venafi, Keyfactor, DigiCert, or similar, 2+ years with cryptographic standards and protocols including TLS/SSL, SSH, S/MIME, code signing, and NIST-aligned practices, 2+ years with quantum readiness and AI protection experience, 2+ years of client-facing skills: requirements gathering, stakeholder management, workshop facilitation, and executive communication, 2+ years leading small teams/workstreams and producing structured, client-ready deliverables.

Preferred: Significant industry work experience, experience with market leading data protection and encryption vendors, experience with public cloud (Azure, AWS, GCP) security and modern data platforms, experience or familiarity with emerging data protection technologies for user communications, experience defining data protection use cases, documenting business requirements and evaluating technology solutions, experience with data risk program design, including alignment to cybersecurity and compliance programs, experience working with data protection and information security policies, standards and procedures, experience leading collaborative efforts across organizational silos, including multifunctional teams of IT professionals, legal/compliance teams, and business executives, experience with cloud collaboration tools and security/compliance, particularly Microsoft 365, experience with change management, deployment and operational processes in large IT organizations, experience with vendor relationship management, professional certifications such as CISSP, CISM, or similar.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Cybersecurity, Information Security, Engineering, Computer Science, Information Technology or related field
• 5+ years of professional experience within data protection and information security
• 5+ years with PKI concepts: certificates, CAs, RA, CSR, OCSP, CRL, HSM, key management, trust chains
• 2+ years of professional experience managing and implementing various encryption technologies (e.g., database encryption, file encryption, Public Key Infrastructure (PKI), certificate lifecycle management (CLM), transport layer security (TLS)) and strong understanding of Cloud encryption concepts such as client-side encryption, bring your own key (BYOK), server-side encryption.
• 2+ years of professional experience developing data protection strategies, roadmaps and frameworks; experience may include designing, implementing and operating data protections services
• 2+ years of total hands-on technical experience with one or more data protection technologies
• 2+ years with CLM platforms such as AppViewX, Venafi, Keyfactor, DigiCert, or similar
• 2+ years with cryptographic standards and protocols including TLS/SSL, SSH, S/MIME, code signing, and NIST-aligned practices
• 2+ years certificate discovery, inventory, automation, renewal, and compliance monitoring
• 2+ years supporting strategy, architecture, roadmap, and implementation workstreams
• 2+ years of hands-on understanding of integration points across F5, load balancers, WAFs, Kubernetes, API gateways, web/app servers, and cloud platforms
• 2+ years of client-facing skills: requirements gathering, stakeholder management, workshop facilitation, and executive communication
• 2+ years leading small teams/workstreams and producing structured, client-ready deliverables
• Ability to travel 25-50%, on average, based on the work you do and the clients and industries/sectors you serve