Senior Technical Advisor

About the role

Candidate MUST be a Wisconsin resident or willing to relocate to Wisconsin prior to starting the role at their own expense. This position can work 100% remote with occasional onsite visits 1-2 times required throughout the duration of the contract. Seeking an expert senior technical leader and engineer to serve as a strategic advisor to the CISO and drive an implementation.

The primary objective is to build long-term internal capabilities while operationalizing and enforcing the newly updated Flaw Remediation (SI-2) Standard. This initiative transitions us from reactive, manual vulnerability management to an AI-accelerated, continuous authorization, and automated DevSecOps posture.

Responsibilities

The consultant shall perform hands-on engineering, deliver strategic CISO advisory, and provide direct mentoring across core operational pillars.

• Act as a direct technical advisor to the CISO, translating federal mandates, emerging AI threat models, and architectural gaps into actionable enterprise security directives.
• Execute a hands-on knowledge transfer model, co-engineering data pipelines and security automation alongside internal DET staff to institutionalize elite technical skills.
• Deliver real-time training and co-develop automation playbooks within the security operations (SecOps) using live demonstration approach.
• Architect automated tracking, logging, and validation mechanisms to implement compliance with updated SI-2 timeframes.
• Partner with agency development teams to pivot away from manual, in-place patching and author and implement automated templates for clean deployments.
• Embed secure builds, automated software testing, code scanning, and dependency updates natively into agency deployment pipelines.
• Operationalize Gemini Government and Google Codemender or equivalent directly inside active workflows.
• Engineer automated data pipelines to feed the centralized enterprise platform.
• Build automated low-code workflows to manage the SI-2 time-bound exception lifecycle.

Qualifications

The designated expert must demonstrate a unique blend of strategic advisory presence and deep, practical engineering capability.

• Proven experience serving as a trusted technical advisor to CISOs, CIOs, or senior executive leaders within public sector or heavily federated enterprise environments.
• Documented success as a technical mentor, trainer, or engineering lead focused on pair-engineering and technical upskilling of infrastructure and security operations staff.
• Comprehensive expertise operationalizing security controls, including tiering models, compensating control validation, and time-bound risk governance structures.
• Enterprise cyber stack expertise, including Google Threat Intel or VirusTotal, Google SecOps, Mandiant ASM, Tenable.io, Microsoft Azure Arc, GitHub, GitHub Advanced Security, Ansible Tower, and Gemini/Anthropic AI security frameworks.

Skills

Nice To Have Skills: Federated/Government environment Tech Stack to include: Google, Microsoft, AWS, Splunk.

Pay

Salary: $128.66 - 134.97 per hour.

Schedule

Work hours: 8am to 5pm.