Senior Consultant, PCI SSF | Remote US

About Coalfire
Coalfire is on a mission to make the world a safer place by solving our clients’ toughest 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. 
And we’re growing fast.
We’re looking for a Senior Consultant, SSF (Software Security Framework Assessor)  to support our PCI Assurance Services, Enterprise team.
Position Summary
In this role, you will conduct technical testing for payment applications. This opportunity provides access to the rapidly emerging market for IT Governance, Risk, and Compliance (IT GRC) management.  For IT application validation assessments, your primary focus will be to validate technical controls for compliance with the Payment Card Industry (PCI) Payment Application & Secure Software framework standard.  In this position, you will be one of the most senior IT auditors in the industry.  You will be a key member of the solution validation team that works with various financial companies to advise them about application architecture, software security and software development.
As a Senior Consultant, you will regularly interact with peers and clients as both an auditor and assessor, depending on the engagement. This role will audit information systems with confidence and accuracy to ensure the integrity and effectiveness of security measures. He/she will test technical controls, policies and procedures, laws, regulations, and industry best practices.

What You'll Do

• Perform technical solution testing across a wide variety of technologies, including penetration testing
• Gather evidence through collaborative client interviews
• Compare client documentation to current compliance guidelines
• Prepare SSF (Software Security Framework) Reports On Validation and Compliance and/or authoring white papers
• Leads audits/assessments including audit plan preparation, review of documentation and evidence, evaluation of procedures, and client interviews.  
• Prepare, review and approve advisory or assessment reports.
• Manage priorities, tasks and hours on projects in conjunction with the project manager to achieve delivery utilization targets.
• Ensures quality products and services are delivered on time per Coalfire quality standards.
• Escalates client and project issues to management in a timely manner to inform and engage the necessary resources to address the issue
• Provide mentorship to team members in areas of audit, assessment, technical review and writing. 
• Interfaces with clients through entire engagement, interacting with all levels of client organizations. Establish and maintain positive collaborative relationships with clients and stakeholders
• Continuous professional development in maintaining industry specific certifications. Maintains strong depth of knowledge in the practice area.
• Collaborates with project managers, quality management, sales and other delivery team members to drive customer satisfaction and meet project deliverables.
• Establishes account relationships and identifies upsell and cross sell opportunities and escalates to sales.
• Work collaboratively with a team of assessors as a compliance expert in at least one area of expertise and drive the planning of assessment for clients
• Draft audit programs that sufficiently address both the required objectives of the certification body and the complexity of the client environment
• Leads interview and inquiry walkthroughs with clients to determine the conformity of environments against stated requirements
• Mentor junior members of the team and may provide training for new hires
• Assess security vulnerabilities against the appropriate security frameworks
• Pursues and corroborates conclusions derived from inquiry procedures with client while ensuring diligent interview notes are captured
• Offline and remote evidence inspection of client provided documentation; appropriately mark artifacts requiring follow-up or additional clarification
• Assess client provided documentation for compliance with a variety of standards
• Educate and interpret compliance activities for clients
• Collaborates with project managers, quality management and/or other delivery team members to drive customer satisfaction and meet project deliverables.
• Build professional and meaningful relationships while managing customer expectations and deliverables