Cyber Data Protection/PKI Specialist Senior Consultant

Work You'll Do

• 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 clients in designing, implementing, and operating technology and process solutions to reduce data risks, developing and leading 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.
• 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.
• 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.

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, which may include Data Discovery, Data Classification and Rights Management, Data Access Governance, Data Loss Prevention, Cloud Access Security Broker, Encryption, Certificate Lifecycle Management, Cloud Security, SaaS 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 protection 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.