Director Of Security Consultant

Top Skills' Details
Strong Cybersecurity Leadership & Technical Credibility
Deep, hands-on cybersecurity expertise with the ability to lead executive-level conversations, answer detailed technical questions (particularly in Microsoft security, identity, MSSP models, and frameworks like ISO and CIS 18), and credibly tell cyber incident stories that build trust with clients.
Consulting Experience in Life Sciences or Regulated Environments
Proven experience delivering cybersecurity consulting services in life sciences or similarly regulated industries (e.g., healthcare, manufacturing), with an understanding of compliance-driven environments, risk management, and how security programs align to business and regulatory requirements.
Seller-Doer Mindset in Professional Services
Demonstrated ability to sell and deliver cybersecurity services within a consulting model - owning business development, shaping solutions, partnering with BD, and maintaining a meaningful level of billable work while independently driving practice growth, service maturity, and client success.
Description
Our client is seeking a mature, technically credible cyber leader with consulting experience who thrives in a seller-doer professional services environment. They can lead executive client conversations, sell cybersecurity services confidently, deliver fractional CISO work across multiple clients, and evolve a standardized book of offerings - all while operating independently within a practitioner-first culture.
The Director of Cybersecurity and Engineering will serve as a senior leader responsible for overseeing and growing the full portfolio of cybersecurity and engineering service offerings. This individual will lead a team of skilled practitioners, drive client engagements, and serve as a strategic and technical authority across all service lines. This role requires a rare combination of executive leadership presence, deep technical expertise, and a passion for client outcomes.
The Director will interface with client executive leaders, subject matter experts, and technical staff to translate requirements, issues, and the value of proposed solutions. This leader will have demonstrated experience and ability to prepare and present Board level materials and will have expert-level quantitative, Excel and PowerPoint skills and meet client deadlines and deliver impeccable results.
1) Sales & Business Development
Own revenue generation for the cyber practice (net new and expansions are not differentiated currently - "business you write")
Partner closely with BD/sales; incentives double count to encourage teamwork
Lead solution shaping, executive client conversations, proposals, and presentations
Build confidence internally that you can hit the sales goal
Notes that matter for recruiting: This is not a "delivery-only" cyber director. They want a leader who has sold professional services and is comfortable being measured heavily on sales outcomes.

2) Practice Leadership / Productizing Services
Improve maturity of what is sold and formalize service offerings
Standardize and document a repeatable book of services
Help evolve and package cyber offerings over time
Important nuance: Candidate doesn't have to have owned this end-to-end before - but must understand what good looks like and how to build upon it.

3) Client Delivery + Fractional CISO Services
Maintain delivery involvement to stay credible and close to client reality:
o Target: ~500-600 billable hours/year (vs. typical 1700 for FTE consultant)
o Roughly 10 hours/week billable
Spend the rest of time (approx. 4 days/week) on:
o BD, service/product improvement, leadership, thought leadership (web articles/publishing)
Provide Fractional CISO services with the ability to juggle 7+ clients at once
Support incident-related work through strong client communication and trust-building

4) Technical Credibility & Storytelling
Must be able to handle deep technical questions in client meetings
Needs to come across as well-rounded, mature, and technically sound
Critical skill: telling compelling and authentic cyber incident stories that:
o build credibility and trust
o connect to client pain points
o translate technical risk into business outcomes

Current Team / Org Context
Cyber team is ~5 people today:
o Principal consultant (will step into manager role in interim) - well-liked, strong performer
o Another principal (part-time ~30 hrs/week)
o senior consultant (architecture side)
o senior analyst
o Hourly/as-needed resource (ops-focused)

Operating Model & "Fit" Expectations
They want someone who is:
independent, decisive, comfortable with ambiguity
confident enough to move forward when information is incomplete
practitioner-minded: credible, authentic, and experienced

Travel & Location
Local strongly preferred
Travel generally under 50%; more typically ~25%, but comes in waves
Flexible, but not on the road every week

Minimum Qualifications (from notes)
Bachelor's degree required (ideally relevant)
10+ years progressive cybersecurity experience
3-5 years in a leadership role
3+ years in professional services consulting or consulting leadership
CISSP required
Non compete not a dealbreaker, but must be evaluated
Skills
Cyber security, Cloud, Security architecture, Cissp, Azure, Risk assessment
Top Skills Details
Cyber security,Cloud,Security architecture,Cissp,Azure,Risk assessment
Additional Skills & Qualifications
POSITION RESPONSIBILITIES
Business Development Excellence
o Earn sales credit at or above assigned targets (target reduced in the first year)
o Network and prospect relentlessly to maintain robust pipeline of viable projects
o Scopes, prices and presents proposed SOWs to align with client needs and budgets
o Collaborates with colleagues on opportunities to optimize approaches and win business
o Maintains accurate pipeline detail using corporate tools
Fractional Leadership Delivery
o Serve as or oversee Fractional CISO (fCISO) engagements, providing strategic cybersecurity leadership to clients, developing security roadmaps, overseeing risk, and guiding incident response.
o Lead or supervise Fractional Data Privacy Advisor (DPA) engagements, ensuring client compliance with privacy regulations including GDPR, HIPAA, and CCPA.
o Guide clients through onboarding assessments
Governance, Risk & Compliance (GRC)
o Oversee compliance readiness assessments aligned to frameworks such as SOC2, NIST CSF, ISO 27001, NIST 800-53, PCI-DSS, HIPAA, and GDPR.
o Direct gap analyses, risk management programs, and remediation strategy development.
o Lead policy development and review, ensuring policies are practical, enforceable, and aligned to security frameworks.
o Oversee GRC tool onboarding and management.
Defensive Security Operations
o Oversee Security Operations functions, ensuring skilled analysts evaluate and act on security alerts.
o Manage vulnerability scanning programs and provide prioritized remediation recommendations.
o Guide implementation and tuning of security tools including SIEM, EDR, and firewalls.
o Oversee M365/Google Workspace configuration scanning and Data Loss Prevention (DLP) services.
Security Engineering
o Direct the design and implementation of secure infrastructure, systems, and automation.
o Oversee Zero Trust Architecture implementations, Identity & Access Management engineering, configuration hardening (CIS Benchmarks, STIGs), and backup/recovery
Experience Level
Expert Level
Job Type & Location
This is a Permanent position based out of Durham, NC.
Pay and Benefits
The pay range for this position is $240000.00 - $250000.00/yr.
Unlimited PTO policy. Bonus structure based on sales written and hours billed.
Workplace Type
This is a hybrid position in Durham,NC.
Application Deadline
This position is anticipated to close on Apr 3, 2026.
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We're a leading provider of business and technology services. We accelerate business transformation for our customers. Our expertise in strategy, design, execution and operations unlocks business value through a range of solutions. We're a team of 80,000 strong, working with over 6,000 customers, including 80% of the Fortune 500 across North America, Europe and Asia, who partner with us for our scale, full-stack capabilities and speed. We're strategic thinkers, hands-on collaborators, helping customers capitalize on change and master the momentum of technology. We're building tomorrow by delivering business outcomes and making positive impacts in our global communities. TEKsystems and TEKsystems Global Services are Allegis Group companies. Learn more at TEKsystems.com.

The company is an equal opportunity employer and will consider all applications without regard to race, sex, age, color, religion, national origin, veteran status, disability, sexual orientation, gender identity, genetic information or any characteristic protected by law.