Consulting Director, Proactive Services (Unit 42) LATAM

Our Mission

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Who We Are

In order to be the cybersecurity partner of choice we must trailblaze the path and shape the future of our industry. This is something our employees work at each day and is defined by our values: Disruption Collaboration Execution Integrity and Inclusion. We weave AI into the fabric of everything we do and use it to augment the impact every individual can have. If you are passionate about solving real-world problems and ideating beside the best and the brightest we invite you to join us!

Job Summary

The Consulting Director will help drive Proactive Consulting Services across the Cloud GRC and AI security domains. This senior-level consultant will serve as a trusted advisor and key contributor to helping our customers strengthen cybersecurity resilience and advance their overall security maturity.

Key Responsibilities

• Drive development maturation and continuous innovation of Unit 42s proactive security consulting services.

• Lead and deliver high-complexity cloud security assessments (architecture configuration identity and threat detection) across AWS Azure and GCP environments.

• Direct Zero Trust transformations converting complex security obstacles into resilient scalable architectures for enterprise-scale clients.

• Orchestrate security engagements including risk assessments compliance audits policy development and high-stakes incident response tabletop exercises.

• Translate critical business risks into actionable technical security blueprints for both C-suite executives and engineering teams.

• Leverage deep knowledge of threat actor behaviors the MITRE ATT&CK framework and emerging AI security trends to harden client defenses.

• Navigate clients through complex regulatory and security standards including NIST CSF ISO CIS and CISA.

• Oversee scoping budgeting and risk mitigation for multiple high-priority simultaneous engagements.

• Drive practice expansion by identifying new opportunities drafting Statements of Work (SOWs) and leading responses to RFPs.

• Develop strategic security roadmaps that align technical milestones with broader business objectives and resource availability.

• Build and maintain long-term relationships with client executives serving as the go-to strategic advisor for proactive security.

• Help current and prospective clients identify vulnerabilities or architectural weaknesses and help drive business growth through Unit 42 solutions.

• Create proprietary intellectual property represent Unit 42 at industry events and mentor the next generation of consulting talent.

Qualifications

Required Qualifications

• 8-10 years of professional services experience with 3 years in a Director or Senior Manager role leading delivery teams.

• Experience leading cybersecurity advisory risk management or professional services engagements for enterprise-tier clients.

• Must speak English and Portuguese Spanish a plus

• Bachelors degree (or equivalent military experience) required; Masters or PhD is a significant plus.

• Full professional fluency in English and Portuguese is required; Spanish is a plus

• Expertise and deep knowledge in complex SOC and MSSP environments

• Hands-on experience with at least one major cloud provider (AWS Azure or GCP).

• Deep experience within the Cloud Native Application Protection Platform (CNAPP) technology or advisory space.

• Demonstrated expertise in designing security architectures aligned with NIST SP 800-207 and the CISA ZT Maturity Model.

• Extensive experience performing assessments against NIST CSF CIS 18 and ISO 27001.

• Hands-on experience with the implementation and administration of common GRC technologies.

• Proven track record of strengthening existing and developing new client relationships through technical excellence.

• Exceptional ability to communicate complex technical concepts to both executive and technical audiences.

• Mentor team members and help consultants grow their technical and leadership capabilities

Preferred Qualifications

• Cloud Security-related certifications (e.g. AWS Security Specialty Azure Security Engineer GCP Professional Cloud Security).

• Experience overseeing complex migrations (on-prem to cloud or multi-cloud).

• Knowledge of integrating CLI or scripting tools (Python PowerShell) into risk assessment workflows.

• Proven track record in pre-sales and solution positioning to drive business growth.

• Experience conducting security assessments of AI systems using MITRE ATLAS OWASP Top 10 for LLMs and the NIST AI Risk Management Framework (AI RMF).

• Operational Technology cybersecurity expertise and experience with Palo Alto Networks technologies including Prisma Access NGFW and Cortex XDR.

Our Commitment

Were trailblazers that dream big take risks and challenge cybersecuritys status quo. Its simple: we cant accomplish our mission without diverse teams innovating together.

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