Senior Consultant - FedRAMP Assessment

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.
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 to support our FedRAMP Assessment team.  

What You'll Do

• Provides advice to customers on issues affecting the scope of work in a manner that provides additional value 
• Develop documentation and author recommendations associate with your findings on how to improve the customer’s security posture in accordance with appropriate controls 
• Leads audits/assessments including audit plan preparation, review of documentation and evidence, evaluation of procedures, and client interviews.    
• Maintains strong depth of knowledge in one or more cybersecurity frameworks. 
• Prepare, review and approve  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. 
• 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. 
• Draft audit programs that sufficiently address both the required objectives of the regulatory body and the complexity of the client environment 
• Leads interview and inquiry walkthroughs with clients to determine the conformity of environments against stated requirements 
• 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  
• Educate and interpret compliance activities for clients 
• Understands how to apply quality standards and adheres to a minimum benchmark for quality assurance throughout the documentation of each work product or deliverable  
• Remote work environment
• Travel 20%

What You'll Bring

• Bachelor's degree (four-year college or university) in IT or business, or equivalent combination of education and work experience
• Five to ten (5-10) years of experience as a consultant within professional IT services
• Must hold one of the following certifications: CISSP, CISA, CISM, CCSP, CISSP-ISSAP, CISSP-ISSEP, CISSP-ISSMP, CFR, CCISO, GCED, GCIH, GSLC
• Deep experience with government compliance, including FISMA, FedRAMP, and DoD RMF
• Strong knowledge of NIST Special Publications 800-30, 800-37, 800-53
• Experience with every step within the delivery of Certification and Accreditation (C&A) / Assessment and Authorization (A&A) packages that have obtained and maintained full authorization to operate (AT