Security Consultant

Are you looking to elevate your cyber career? Your technical skills? Your opportunity for growth? Deloitte's Government and Public Services Cyber Practice (GPS Cyber Practice) is the place for you! Our GPS Cyber Practice helps organizations create a cyber minded culture and become stronger, faster, and more innovative. You will become part of a team that advises, implements, and manages solutions across five verticals: Strategy, Defense and Response; Identity; Infrastructure; Data; and Application Security. Our dynamic team offers opportunities to work with cutting-edge cyber security tools and grow both vertically and horizontally at an accelerated rate. Join our cyber team and elevate your career.

Work you'll do

• Support and regularly update System Security Plans (SSPs) in collaboration with stakeholders to ensure accuracy and compliance.
• Coordinate security compliance activities with offshore teams, providing guidance and facilitating communication to align with organizational policies.
• Document and maintain security controls, policies, and procedures, ensuring all documentation is up-to-date and accessible.
• Conduct assessments of access control mechanisms, identify vulnerabilities, and recommend remediation measures.
• Prepare detailed reports on security assessments, compliance status, and access control evaluations, and communicate findings to stakeholders.
• Demonstrate strong analytical, problem-solving, and communication skills, with attention to detail, organizational skills, and a proactive approach to identifying security issues.
• Prior experience working on GPS Integrity Eligibility, or any other welfare system a plus
• Strong understanding of security frameworks such as NIST, FedRAMP, and other relevant standards

The team

Deloitte's Government and Public Services (GPS) practice - our people, ideas, technology and outcomes-is designed for impact. Serving federal, state, & local government clients as well as public higher education institutions, our team of more than 15,000 professionals brings fresh perspective to help clients anticipate disruption, reimagine the possible, and fulfill their mission promise.

At Deloitte, we believe cyber is about starting things-not stopping them-and enabling the freedom to create a more secure future. Cyber Strategy, Defense and Response (SDR) focuses on helping federal clients design and implement transformational enterprise security programs with an emphasis on defending against, recovering from, and mitigating major cyberattacks. If you're seeking a career that increases cyber awareness, utilizes risk management programs, and develops strategies for cyber defense and response, then the Cyber SDR offering at Deloitte is for you.

Qualifications

Required:

• Bachelor's degree required.
• Must be legally authorized to work in the United States without the need for employer sponsorship, now or at any time in the future.
• Must be able to obtain and maintain the required clearance for this role
• Must be local to Sacramento, CA and able to come onsite in Sacramento, CA and travel around the Sacramento, CA area.
• 5 years of experience working with RMF and NIST 800-53
• 5 years of experience supporting and regularly updating System Security Plans (SSPs)
• 5 years of experience with security control assessments

Preferred:

• Prior professional services or federal consulting experience
• Certifications (e.g., CompTIA Security , CEH, CISSP)

The wage range for this role takes into account the wide range of factors that are considered in making compensation decisions including but not limited to skill sets; experience and training; licensure and certifications; and other business and organizational needs. The disclosed range estimate has not been adjusted for the applicable geographic differential associated with the location at which the position may be filled. At Deloitte, it is not typical for an individual to be hired at or near the top of the range for their role and compensation decisions are dependent on the facts and circumstances of each case. A reasonable estimate of the current range is $97,875 to $163,125.

You may also be eligible to participate in a discretionary annual incentive program, subject to the rules governing the program, whereby an award, if any, depends on various factors, including, without limitation, individual and organizational performance.

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