VMO_ IT Security Specialist IV_Infra

Company: Innova
Location: Charlotte
Posted on: February 1, 2025

Job Description:

Innova Solutions has a client that is immediately hiring for a Security Consultant.

If you want to know about the requirements for this role, read on for all the relevant information.

Position Type: Full-Time Contract
Duration: 12+ months
Location: Charlotte, NC (Onsite role in Hybrid Model - 3 days onsite in a week)

Security Consultant
Location: Charlotte, NC(Hybrid)
Duration: 12 Months to 18 months

Description:
This role requires expertise in technology audits, data security, cloud environments, process controls, regulatory compliance, and metrics evaluation. The consultant will support documentation efforts, address compliance gaps, and ensure that DLP controls and processes meet standards such as NIST, ISO 27001, and FFIEC. Additionally, the consultant will evaluate current metrics, identify any gaps, and develop a plan to enhance performance indicators and reporting.

Key Responsibilities:
1, Documentation Coordination and Compliance
Assist with developing program documentation required to demonstrate DLP and Encryption regulatory compliance, ensuring alignment with internal standards and regulatory expectations.
Identify and address documentation gaps, ensuring all processes, controls, and metrics support compliance.
Maintain organized records for DLP-related processes across on-premise and cloud environments (AWS, Azure
2. Audit, Data Security, and Compliance Mapping
Utilize audit expertise to map DLP controls to relevant laws, regulations, and standards, building a comprehensive compliance framework.
Apply data security knowledge, especially within cloud environments, to ensure DLP controls meet regulatory requirements for cloud data protection.
3. Metrics and Performance Enhancement
Review existing DLP metrics and KPIs/KRIs to assess effectiveness in tracking compliance and performance.
Identify gaps within the current metrics framework, developing a plan to enhance and optimize performance indicators.
Collaborate with teams to implement new metrics, ensuring they align with regulatory standards such as FFIEC, NIST, and ISO 27001.
Leverage Excel and advanced analytics to analyze data, assess trends, and create insightful reporting tools.
4. Control Objectives
Review control objectives aligned with current policies and industry standards, ensuring consistency across all technology controls.
Ensure control objectives are measurable and can effectively demonstrate compliance during regulatory reviews.
5. Program Documentation and Presentation Development
Create detailed program documentation and visually engaging presentation materials outlining DLP program objectives, control effectiveness, and compliance status, which will provide an overview of the program and the associated controls.
Prepare executive summaries and strategic overviews to communicate DLP risk trends, program strengths, and 2026 priorities.
Tailor documentation and presentations for technical and non-technical stakeholders, ensuring clear and concise messaging.

Required Skills:
7+ years of Information Security Governance, Risk and/or Compliance, Information Technology or Business Analysis
5-7 years of experience interacting with auditors and regulators or experience working in an auditing or risk management capacity or within a consulting firm
Deep Understanding of Data Loss Prevention and Encryption
Strong understanding of security principles, protocols, and technologies, with expertise in areas like network security, DLP, and encryption.
Experience with managing regulatory, compliance, risk, and governance processes or functions
Familiarity with common Information Security and data protection frameworks and standards (i.e. CIS, NIST, HIPAA, GDPR, PCI DSSS, ISO 270001).
Excellent verbal and written communication skills with ability to distill key data points and effectively present information.
Proven experience creating executive-level presentations and reports that convey complex information effectively.
Strong proficiency with Excel for developing and refining metrics and reporting.
Relevant certifications, such as CISA, CISSP, AWS Certified Security, or Azure Security Engineer, are a plus.
Prior experience preparing for regulatory examinations, are a plus.

Preferred Skills:
Experience in financial institutions or consulting with a focus on data protection and regulatory compliance.
Prior experience preparing for regulatory examinations.

Qualified candidates should APPLY NOW for immediate consideration! Please hit APPLY to provide the required information, and we will be back in touch as soon as possible.
We are currently interviewing to fill this and other similar positions. If this role is not a fit for you, we do offer a referral bonus program for referrals that we successfully place with our clients, subject to program guidelines. ASK ME HOW.
Thank you!

Balbir Rana
Senior Associate - Recruitment
Balbir.Rana@innovasolutions.com

PAY RANGE AND BENEFITS:
Pay Range*: $75 to $77 per hour>
*Pay range offered to a successful candidate will be based on several factors, including the candidate's education, work experience, work location, specific job duties, certifications, etc.

Benefits: Innova Solutions offers benefits( based on eligibility) that include the following: Medical & pharmacy coverage, Dental/vision insurance, 401(k), Health saving account (HSA) and Flexible spending account (FSA), Life Insurance, Pet Insurance, Short term and Long term Disability, Accident & Critical illness coverage, Pre-paid legal & ID theft protection, Sick time, and other types of paid leaves (as required by law), Employee Assistance Program (EAP).

ABOUT INNOVA SOLUTIONS: Founded in 1998 and headquartered in Atlanta, Georgia, Innova Solutions employs approximately 50,000 professionals worldwide and reports an annual revenue approaching $3 Billion. Through our global delivery centers across North America, Asia, and Europe, we deliver strategic technology and business transformation solutions to our clients, enabling them to operate as leaders within their fields.

Recent Recognitions:
Named One of America's Best Employers for New Grads by Forbes (2024
Named One of the Best Companies to Work for by U.S. News & World Report (Private Companies List, 2024-2025)
One of the Largest IT Staffing Firms in the US - Ranked #3 by Staffing Industry Analysts (SIA, 2024)
One of the Largest Staffing Firms in the US - Ranked #13 by Staffing Industry Analysts (SIA, 2024; includes Innova Solutions, Volt, & HireGenics)
Named One of the Top Ten Private Companies in Atlanta by the Atlanta Business Chronicle (2023)
One of the Largest Certified Minority Business Enterprises (MBEs) in the United States (NMSDC, 2024)
AWS Advanced Tier Services Partner with 100+ certifications

Website: https://www.innovasolutions.com/

Innova Solutions is an Equal Opportunity Employer and prohibits any kind of unlawful discrimination and harassment. Innova Solutions is committed to the principle of equal employment opportunity for all employees and to providing employees with a work environment free of discrimination and harassment on the basis of race, color, religion or belief, national origin, citizenship, social or ethnic origin, sex, age, physical or mental disability, veteran status, marital status, domestic partner status, sexual orientation, or any other status protected by the statutes, rules, and regulations in the locations where it operates. If you are an individual with a disability and need a reasonable accommodation to assist with your job search or application for employment, please contact us at hr@innovasolutions.com or (770) 493-5588. Please indicate the specifics of the assistance needed. Innova Solutions encourages all interested and qualified candidates to apply for employment opportunities. Innova Solutions (HireGenics/Volt) does not discriminate against applicants based on citizenship status, immigration status, or national origin, in accordance with 8 U.S.C. - 1324b.
The company will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records in a manner that complies with the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance, the Los Angeles Fair Chance Initiative for Hiring Ordinance, and other applicable laws.

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