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Job Description
A career in IBM Consulting is built on long-term client relationships and close collaboration worldwide. You'll work with leading companies across industries, helping them shape their hybrid cloud and AI journeys. With support from our strategic partners, robust IBM technology, and Red Hat, you'll have the tools to drive meaningful change and accelerate client impact. At IBM Consulting, curiosity fuels success. You'll be encouraged to challenge the norm, explore new ideas, and create innovative solutions that deliver real results. Our culture of growth and empathy focuses on your long-term career development while valuing your unique skills and experiences.
In this role, you'll work in one of our IBM Consulting FutureNow Centers, where we deliver deep technical and industry expertise to a wide range of public and private sector clients around the world. Our delivery centers offer our clients locally based skills and technical expertise to drive innovation and adoption of new technology.
Your role and responsibilities
As a Security Consultant, you will help clients understand key security and privacy issues and develop programs to meet business needs. You will use workshops and assessments to identify security and privacy risks, exposures, and vulnerabilities. Your primary responsibilities will include: • Assist Clients with Security Issues: Learn about and support clients in understanding key security and privacy concerns, and participate in developing programs to address their business needs. • Participate in Workshops and Assessments: Engage in workshops and assessments to help clients identify security and privacy risks, exposures, and vulnerabilities, and observe how to develop strategies to mitigate them. • Explore Secure Solutions: Contribute to architecting secure solutions to address specific security and privacy requirements, and explore ways to optimize existing solutions.
Required education
High School Diploma/GED
Required technical and professional expertise
Currently pursuing a degree in:
* Systems Engineering / Computer Science
* Telematics / Networking
* Information Security / Cybersecurity
* Software Engineering
* Information Technology (IT)
* Mathematics / Statistics
* Industrial Engineering (with an analytical focus)
* Electronics / Telecommunications
* Physics
* Data Science / Analytics
Hardskills:
* Networking fundamentals (TCP/IP, ports, DNS)
* Basic security concepts (CIA triad, malware, phishing)
* Basic systems knowledge:
* Windows (event logs)
* Linux (basic commands)
* Basic SQL
* Basic Python
* SIEM (Sentinel, Splunk, QRadar)
* EDR (Defender, CrowdStrike)
* Advanced English
Softskills:
* Technical curiosity
* Effective communication in both languages, Spanish and English
* Coachability
Exposure to Security Concepts: Familiarity with key security and privacy issues, including risks, exposures, and vulnerabilities.
Basic Understanding of Security Assessments: Knowledge of workshops and assessments used to identify security and privacy concerns.
Interest in Secure Solution Design: Curiosity about designing secure solutions to address specific security and privacy requirements.
Awareness of Business Needs: Understanding of how security programs can meet business needs and support clients. Familiarity with
Risk Mitigation: Basic understanding of strategies to mitigate security and privacy risks, exposures, and vulnerabilities.
Preferred technical and professional experience
• Familiarity with Security Frameworks: Exposure to industry-recognized security frameworks and standards would be beneficial in understanding key security and privacy issues.
• Knowledge of Workshop Facilitation: Basic understanding of workshop facilitation techniques would be helpful in engaging clients and identifying security and privacy risks.
• Interest in Cloud Security: Curiosity about cloud security solutions and their application in addressing specific security and privacy requirements would be an asset.
In this role, you'll work in one of our IBM Consulting FutureNow Centers, where we deliver deep technical and industry expertise to a wide range of public and private sector clients around the world. Our delivery centers offer our clients locally based skills and technical expertise to drive innovation and adoption of new technology.
Your role and responsibilities
As a Security Consultant, you will help clients understand key security and privacy issues and develop programs to meet business needs. You will use workshops and assessments to identify security and privacy risks, exposures, and vulnerabilities. Your primary responsibilities will include: • Assist Clients with Security Issues: Learn about and support clients in understanding key security and privacy concerns, and participate in developing programs to address their business needs. • Participate in Workshops and Assessments: Engage in workshops and assessments to help clients identify security and privacy risks, exposures, and vulnerabilities, and observe how to develop strategies to mitigate them. • Explore Secure Solutions: Contribute to architecting secure solutions to address specific security and privacy requirements, and explore ways to optimize existing solutions.
Required education
High School Diploma/GED
Required technical and professional expertise
Currently pursuing a degree in:
* Systems Engineering / Computer Science
* Telematics / Networking
* Information Security / Cybersecurity
* Software Engineering
* Information Technology (IT)
* Mathematics / Statistics
* Industrial Engineering (with an analytical focus)
* Electronics / Telecommunications
* Physics
* Data Science / Analytics
Hardskills:
* Networking fundamentals (TCP/IP, ports, DNS)
* Basic security concepts (CIA triad, malware, phishing)
* Basic systems knowledge:
* Windows (event logs)
* Linux (basic commands)
* Basic SQL
* Basic Python
* SIEM (Sentinel, Splunk, QRadar)
* EDR (Defender, CrowdStrike)
* Advanced English
Softskills:
* Technical curiosity
* Effective communication in both languages, Spanish and English
* Coachability
Exposure to Security Concepts: Familiarity with key security and privacy issues, including risks, exposures, and vulnerabilities.
Basic Understanding of Security Assessments: Knowledge of workshops and assessments used to identify security and privacy concerns.
Interest in Secure Solution Design: Curiosity about designing secure solutions to address specific security and privacy requirements.
Awareness of Business Needs: Understanding of how security programs can meet business needs and support clients. Familiarity with
Risk Mitigation: Basic understanding of strategies to mitigate security and privacy risks, exposures, and vulnerabilities.
Preferred technical and professional experience
• Familiarity with Security Frameworks: Exposure to industry-recognized security frameworks and standards would be beneficial in understanding key security and privacy issues.
• Knowledge of Workshop Facilitation: Basic understanding of workshop facilitation techniques would be helpful in engaging clients and identifying security and privacy risks.
• Interest in Cloud Security: Curiosity about cloud security solutions and their application in addressing specific security and privacy requirements would be an asset.
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