--- title: 'Senior Technical Consultant - CTEM / Vulnerability Management Engineer at AHEAD' canonical: 'https://feeny.ai/job/senior-technical-consultant-ctem-vulnerability-management-engineer-ahead-united-m3fhn0236px6' type: 'job' last_seen: '2026-11-06' --- # Senior Technical Consultant - CTEM / Vulnerability Management Engineer at AHEAD - **Company:** AHEAD - **Location:** United States - **Compensation:** $170k–$180k - **Employment:** full-time - **Work type:** remote - **Posted:** 2026-11-04 - **Last confirmed live:** 2026-11-06 - **Apply:** https://jobs.lever.co/thinkahead/73a01d67-0a55-4329-b43e-f7dcdfe93501 ## Job description AHEAD builds platforms for digital business. By weaving together advances in cloud infrastructure, automation and analytics, and software delivery, we help enterprises deliver on the promise of digital transformation. At AHEAD, we prioritize creating a culture of belonging, where all perspectives and voices are represented, valued, respected, and heard. We create spaces to empower everyone to speak up, make change, and drive the culture at AHEAD. We are an equal opportunity employer, and do not discriminate based on an individual's race, national origin, color, gender, gender identity, gender expression, sexual orientation, religion, age, disability, marital status, or any other protected characteristic under applicable law, whether actual or perceived. We embrace all candidates that will contribute to the diversification and enrichment of ideas and perspectives at AHEAD. Cyber Recovery Architecture Managers must be experienced in the Respond and Recover Security Functions including but not limited to cyber recovery, vulnerability management, and resilient architectures. Managers lead diverse teams of consultants with varying skills to meet and exceed client expectations through scoped engagements. This role will lead multiple client engagements (including recovery assessments, infrastructure dependency mappings, etc.) or support larger sized client engagements. Senior Consultants in general contribute to client delivery by executing the necessary technical or process-focused tasks, producing high-quality architectural and security artifacts, and presenting findings and recommendations throughout an engagement. Senior Consultants may be assigned a Project Coordinator role to ensure delivery engagements adhere to the associated timeline, support project reporting requirements, and maintain alignment to the intended objectives. Senior Consultants are the primary leaders of AHEAD's security delivery teams responsible for assessments, designs, and operational documentation.Managers also support business development activities alongside a sales specialist to help qualify client needs and expectations, particularly where security architecture, design tradeoffs, or solution feasibility must be evaluated. They may be directly engaged in client-facing interactions to assess current-state environments, articulate future-state security architectures, and produce and/or present sales proposals or support client-visioning workshops.Lastly, AHEAD Senior Consultants leverage their visibility and experience to contribute to the continuous improvement and maturation of in-practice service offerings and capabilities. This includes influencing architectural standards, design patterns, and security approaches, as well as positively impacting the service portfolio and individuals on the team through thought leadership and mentorship. ## Responsibilities - Lead client assessments of CTEM and vulnerability management programs, including reviewing asset discovery and inventory, exposure identification, vulnerability scanning and assessment, risk-based prioritization, remediation workflows, and validation practices. - Request and analyze evidence of program maturity, relevant technology configurations, asset coverage, scanning practices, remediation processes, exception handling, reporting, and governance. - Write consistent, detailed observations and practical recommendations based on risk to client environments and programs. - Develop actionable remediation strategies and roadmaps that account for exposure severity, exploitability, business criticality, asset context, and operational dependencies. - Advise clients on improving visibility into their attack surface, prioritizing exposures, and coordinating remediation across infrastructure, cloud, applications, and security teams. - Support the design and implementation of vulnerability management and exposure management processes, including roles, ownership, service levels, metrics, and reporting. - Evaluate security tools and integrations that support asset discovery, vulnerability assessment, exposure prioritization, remediation tracking, and validation. - Perform technical analysis of client environments and dependencies to inform risk prioritization, remediation sequencing, and implementation planning. - Lead and participate in the development of CTEM strategies, vulnerability management plans, procedures, runbooks, and playbooks. Client Delivery - Facilitate strategy, roadmap, design, and planning workshops for small to medium-sized engagements, anchoring discussions in architectural principles, security patterns, and measurable outcomes. - Ensure customer expectations are appropriately set and managed. - Drive and manage objectives, requirements gathering, project tasks and milestones, project status, dependencies, and timelines to ensure successful, on-time delivery aligned to business objectives. - Lead or contribute to solution architecture and design discussions, including the development of secure technology architectures and operating models that support clients’ CTEM, vulnerability management, and risk-reduction objectives. - Consult on solution designs that employ strong security controls, clearly defined ownership, effective integrations, and operational workflows for identifying, prioritizing, and remediating exposures. - Create and finalize project deliverables, including peer review for collateral developed by others on a delivery team. - Present deliverables to client executive management. - Apply knowledge of AHEAD’s project lifecycle management activities to effectively support delivery engagements throughout the duration of a project. Business Development - Support business development pursuits through client discovery meetings. - Represent service offerings during the sales cycle, including project scoping, proposal development, and presenting proposals to clients. - Provide consultative input during sales cycles related to secure architecture, CTEM and vulnerability management strategies, and solution feasibility. - Apply knowledge of AHEAD’s sales management lifecycle to effectively support sales opportunities throughout the duration of a proposal. - Assist Principal Consultants and Security Sales Specialists with engagement scoping and the creation of proposal collateral. Practice Development and Thought Leadership - Maintain subject matter expertise in a minimum of four security domains or three security solutions. - Participate in the development, enhancement, and standardization of in-practice service offerings, primarily services related to CTEM, vulnerability management, exposure prioritization, and remediation strategy. - Enable more than one service capability. - Maintain a broad knowledge and understanding of current and future state IT trends, technologies, and standards. - Lend support and mentorship to junior consultants and peers. People Leadership - In addition to leading multiple projects, Senior Consultants provide technical leadership, ongoing mentoring, and guidance to junior consultants and peers. They may coordinate project teams and support professional development as appropriate to the engagement and practice. ## Qualifications - Undergraduate technical degree in Engineering, Computer Science, IT Management, or Cybersecurity preferred, but not required. - Minimum of 10 years of professional, relevant experience, including experience leading technical work or client engagements. - Three professional and/or technical certifications, including industry-recognized certifications that align to AHEAD’s Security service portfolio. - Demonstrated experience consulting on secure architecture, vulnerability management, CTEM, or related security program design within complex enterprise environments. - Excellent verbal and written communication skills (must be highly proficient in Microsoft Office Suite). - Comfortable addressing groups of people in virtual or in-person settings. - Ability to solve complex, abstract problems. - Excellent interpersonal skills, good listener, ability to connect with different personalities. The compensation range indicated in this posting reflects the On-Target Earnings (“OTE”) for this role, which includes a base salary and any applicable target bonus amount. This OTE range may vary based on the candidate’s relevant experience, qualifications, and geographic location. Why AHEAD: Through our daily work and internal groups like Moving Women AHEAD and RISE AHEAD, we value and benefit from diversity of people, ideas, experience, and everything in between. We fuel growth by stacking our office with top-notch technologies in a multi-million-dollar lab, by encouraging cross department training and development, sponsoring certifications and credentials for continued learning. USA Employment Benefits include: - Medical, Dental, and Vision Insurance - 401(k) - Paid company holidays - Paid time off - Paid parental and caregiver leave - Plus more! See benefits https://www.aheadbenefits.com/ for additional details. Use of AI: We may use artificial intelligence (AI) tools to support parts of the hiring process, such as reviewing applications, analyzing resumes, assessing responses, or to capture recordings and create transcriptions or summaries during interviews. These tools assist our recruitment team but do not replace human judgment. Final hiring decisions are ultimately made by humans. If you would like more information about how your data is processed, please refer to the Candidate Privacy Notice or contact us at privacy@ahead.com. You may opt-out of the review or analysis of your application and resume by AI tools by using the General Application. Please include the role you wish to apply for in the Additional Information field. You may also choose to opt-out of recording and transcription at any time, including after joining an interview.  Candidates will not be penalized for choosing to opt-out. ## About AHEAD ## Company Overview - **One-liner**: AHEAD is an engineering-led digital platform company that accelerates enterprise strategy into execution across AI, cloud, data, security, and infrastructure. - **Entity Type**: Private (Bootstrapped/PE-backed; no public funding rounds disclosed) - **Headquarters**: New York, New York, USA - **Founded**: 2007 - **Founders**: Dan Adamany (CEO) ## Core Business - **Primary industry/industries**: IT Services & Consulting, Digital Transformation, Managed Services - **Target customers**: Fortune 1000 enterprises, large-scale organizations with complex, multi-domain IT estates (B2B, Enterprise) - **Mission or purpose statement**: To accelerate strategy into execution, engineering integrated solutions across infrastructure, applications, data, and security — building what others only blueprint. ## Products & Services - **AI Transformation**: A unified AI fabric to accelerate AI from idea to business value, including AI-enabled infrastructure and data readiness. *(Service)* - **AI Enabled Infrastructure**: Scalable, resilient architectures supporting high-performance workloads from core to edge. *(Service)* - **Data Platform Modernization**: Governed data platforms that turn raw data into trustworthy insight and AI readiness. *(Service)* - **Secure and Resilient Architectures**: Platforms designed to reduce risk, limit impact, and recover quickly. *(Service)* - **Platform and Workload Modernization**: Modernizing platforms and optimizing workloads across cloud, data center, and edge. *(Service)* - **Operational Excellence**: Frictionless operations, predictable performance, and optimized spend. *(Service)* - **Managed Services**: Ongoing management of critical systems over their entire lifecycle. *(Service)* - **Proprietary IP (Foundry™, Hatch™)**: Accelerators, financial models, scorecards, integration-ready code, and policy-as-code. *(Software/Tooling)* - **400+ APIs & Custom Offerings**: Frameworks that integrate multiple platforms for automation, data sandboxes, and ML/AI exploration. *(Platform)* ## Market Standing - **Valuation/Market Cap**: Not publicly available (Private company) - **Key Metric**: **Gross Revenue** of **$3.7 billion** (as of 2024, following the acquisition of CDI); **2,500+ employees** across 40 locations globally. - **Notable Investors/Partners**: Partners with **200+ technology providers** (e.g., major cloud, data center, security, and automation vendors). The company is backed by private equity (likely a growth/PE structure, though specific investors are not named in the provided materials). - **Growth Signals**: Scaled from a Midwest focus to national and international coverage through **12 acquisitions since 2019**; expanded service portfolio into data, app dev, custom manufacturing, and global logistics via M&A; recent acquisition of CDI (New York-based) added significant scale. ## Competitive Advantages - **Orchestration Expertise**: Ability to stitch together complex, multi-vendor systems into cohesive, scalable architectures — a differentiator in an increasingly fragmented IT landscape. - **Full-Stack Engineering**: Deep expertise across AI, cloud, data, security, infrastructure, and operations, applied in an integrated fashion. - **Unified Delivery Model**: One team, one roadmap, one owner held accountable for driving outcomes, from strategy through implementation and ongoing operations. - **Consultative Approach**: Engages early to architect transformation roadmaps, not just as a reseller of hardware/software. - **Proprietary IP (Foundry™, Hatch™)**: Unique accelerators and code libraries that de-risk and speed up client digital initiatives. ## Strategic Focus - **Current priorities**: Accelerating enterprise AI adoption; expanding managed services; deepening capabilities in data, security, and cloud; continuing M&A strategy to add geographic coverage and new service lines. - **Direction for growth**: Becoming the go-to strategic partner for Fortune 1000 leaders navigating the complexity of modern IT, with a focus on accountability from design to operations. ## Why Work Here - **Culture highlights**: Engineering-led organization with a strong emphasis on technical depth, ownership, and accountability. Described as a "game-changer in tech" that values innovation and execution. - **Remote/hybrid/office policy**: Likely hybrid/office-based given the nature of client-facing consulting and infrastructure work; 40 global locations suggest flexibility in location. - **Notable perks or engineering culture**: Opportunity to work with cutting-edge technologies across AI, cloud, security, and data at massive scale; exposure to Fortune 1000 clients and complex transformations; strong focus on IP development and engineering excellence; clear growth trajectory through acquisitions and expansion. ## Sources 1. [AHEAD Official Website](https://www.ahead.com/) 2. [AHEAD Story Page](https://www.ahead.com/story/) 3. [AHEAD Leadership Page](https://www.ahead.com/leadership/) 4. 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