Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Paladin Consulting is seeking a highly capable Security Engineer/Architect to join their cybersecurity vCISO services team. This role involves leading the design, implementation, and delivery of cybersecurity solutions while serving as a trusted advisor to customers and managing technical delivery in dynamic environments.
Responsibilities
- Architect and implement security solutions across customer environments
- Lead technical delivery for cybersecurity projects from discovery through implementation
- Translate business and operational requirements into practical, supportable security designs
- Conduct security assessments, remediation planning, and technical validations
- Assess customers' technical security posture and provide recommendations for improvement
- Support incident response, initial investigation, and recovery efforts when required
- Troubleshoot complex multi-system issues spanning identity, networking, endpoint, datacenter, storage, and infrastructure platforms
- Serve as a trusted technical advisor to customer IT leadership, engineering teams, and operational stakeholders
- Lead customer-facing technical discussions, workshops, architectural reviews, and implementation planning sessions
- Communicate effectively with both technical teams and non-technical business leaders
- De-escalate high-pressure situations and provide calm technical leadership during outages, incidents, or critical project phases
- Help customers prioritize security initiatives based on risk tolerance, operational impact, business goals, and budget availability
- Support account managers and presales teams with scoping, solution development, and pricing efforts
- Assist in building statements of work, project plans, and implementation strategies
- Help identify technical risk, operational impact, and project dependencies, and delivery considerations before delivery begins
- Provide technical leadership during customer solution discussions and strategic planning efforts
Skills
- Mid-to-senior level experience designing and implementing cybersecurity solutions
- Experience leading technical delivery efforts in customer-facing environments
- Strong troubleshooting and root-cause analysis skills across infrastructure and security systems
- Broad experience across multiple security and infrastructure domains
- Identity and access management
- Multi-factor authentication and conditional access
- Network security and segmentation
- Email security
- Endpoint detection and response (EDR/XDR)
- Vulnerability management
- Backup, disaster recovery, and ransomware resilience
- DNS security
- SIEM/SOC integrations and logging strategy
- Datacenter and virtualization security
- Database security concepts
- Hybrid infrastructure security architecture
- Security posture assessment and remediation planning
- Experience with several of the following platforms is expected
- Microsoft security and identity technologies
- Identity platforms including Entra ID, Duo, and Cisco ISE
- Cisco, Palo Alto, and Fortinet security platforms
- SentinelOne
- Zscaler
- Network platforms including Cisco, Fortinet, and Arista
- VMware and Nutanix
- Enterprise storage platforms including Pure, Dell, and HPE
- Experience in consulting, VAR, professional services, or multi-customer environments preferred
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