Introduction
A career in IBM Consulting is rooted by long-term relationships and close collaboration with clients across the globe. You'll work with visionaries across multiple industries to improve the hybrid cloud and AI journey for the most innovative and valuable companies in the world. Your ability to accelerate impact and make meaningful change for your clients is enabled by our strategic partner ecosystem and our robust technology platforms across the IBM portfolio; including Software and Red Hat. Curiosity and a constant quest for knowledge serve as the foundation to success in IBM Consulting. In your role, you'll be encouraged to challenge the norm, investigate ideas outside of your role, and come up with creative solutions resulting in ground breaking impact for a wide network of clients. Our culture of evolution and empathy centers on long-term career growth and development opportunities in an environment that embraces your unique skills and experience.
Your role and responsibilities

• Hands-on exposure to cyber maturity assessments, risk quantification, and regulatory readiness programs. Proven experience presenting to C-level executives, risk committees, or regulatory auditors.

• Understanding of designing, implementing, and managing security controls across multi-cloud environments (AWS, Azure, GCP) to ensure that cloud solutions are compliant with organizational security policies, regulatory requirements, and industry best practices.

• This role combines strong technical expertise in cloud-native security tools with hands-on experience in risk management, compliance, and security operations.

• Support clients in designing and executing cyber transformation programs, including:
  Target Operating Model (TOM) design
  Security architecture alignment
  Identity & Access Management governance
  Data protection and resilience initiatives

• Experience assessing, designing, implementing, and managing security controls that protect infrastructure, servers, networks, and endpoints across hybrid IT environments. This role requires a good understanding of endpoint protection, vulnerability management, patch governance, identity and privilege management, and network defense to enhance the organization's cyber resilience.

• The consultant will work closely with IT, SOC, and compliance teams to ensure that infrastructure and endpoint security controls are aligned with business objectives, regulatory standards, and global cybersecurity frameworks.

Required education
Bachelor's Degree
Preferred education
Bachelor's Degree
Required technical and professional expertise

• 10 - 15 years of versatile experience in cybersecurity consulting, architecture, risk management, or governance advisory.
• Experience supporting clients in government (preferred) and / or regulated industries such as banking, insurance, or telecommunications.
• Proven and experience with Cloud Security Platforms.
• Hands-on experience integrating alerts into SIEM/SOAR tools.
• Familiar with cloud-native and hybrid environment architecture in AWS, Azure, or GCP
• Familiar with compliance frameworks: NIST CSF, CIS, GDPR, PCI DSS.
• Familiar with EDR/XDR platforms, vulnerability management programs, IAM and PAM solutions.
• Experienced with incident response, patch governance, and endpoint hardening

ABOUT BUSINESS UNIT

IBM Consulting is IBM's consulting and global professional services business, with market leading capabilities in business and technology transformation. With deep expertise in many industries, we offer strategy, experience, technology, and operations services to many of the most innovative and valuable companies in the world. Our people are focused on accelerating our clients' businesses through the power of collaboration. We believe in the power of technology responsibly used to help people, partners and the planet.

YOUR LIFE @ IBM

In a world where technology never stands still, we understand that, dedication to our clients success, innovation that matters, and trust and personal responsibility in all our relationships, lives in what we do as IBMers as we strive to be the catalyst that makes the world work better.
Being an IBMer means you'll be able to learn and develop yourself and your career, you'll be encouraged to be courageous and experiment everyday, all whilst having continuous trust and support in an environment where everyone can thrive whatever their personal or professional background.
Our IBMers are growth minded, always staying curious, open to feedback and learning new information and skills to constantly transform themselves and our company. They are trusted to provide on-going feedback to help other IBMers grow, as well as collaborate with colleagues keeping in mind a team focused approach to include different perspectives to drive exceptional outcomes for our customers. The courage our IBMers have to make critical decisions everyday is essential to IBM becoming the catalyst for progress, always embracing challenges with resources they have to hand, a can-do attitude and always striving for an outcome focused approach within everything that they do.
Are you ready to be an IBMer?

ABOUT IBM

IBM's greatest invention is the IBMer. We believe that through the application of intelligence, reason and science, we can improve business, society and the human condition, bringing the power of an open hybrid cloud and AI strategy to life for our clients and partners around the world.
Restlessly reinventing since 1911, we are not only one of the largest corporate organizations in the world, we're also one of the biggest technology and consulting employers, with many of the Fortune 500 companies relying on the IBM Cloud to run their business.
At IBM, we pride ourselves on being an early adopter of artificial intelligence, quantum computing and blockchain. Now it's time for you to join us on our journey to being a responsible technology innovator and a force for good in the world.
IBM is proud to be an equal-opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, national origin, genetics, pregnancy, disability, neurodivergence, age, or other characteristics protected by the applicable law. IBM is also committed to compliance with all fair employment practices regarding citizenship and immigration status.

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