Remote Senior Security Consultant Jobs
Remote Senior Security Consultant jobs are open across the U.S. in sectors like cybersecurity services, financial services, healthcare technology, and defense contracting, where distributed teams depend on senior-level security expertise. Companies currently hiring remotely include NetSPI, Ahead, and Coalfire. Find a role that fits below and apply directly.
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Coalfire is on a mission to make the world a safer place by solving our clients’ hardest cybersecurity challenges. We work at the cutting edge of technology to advise, assess, automate, and ultimately help companies navigate the ever-changing cybersecurity landscape. We are headquartered in Chicago, Illinois with offices across the U.S. and U.K., and we support clients around the world.
But that’s not who we are – that’s just what we do.
Position Summary:
The Senior Consultant works closely with Project Managers, Delivery Directors, and other Delivery team members to lead engagements, assessing the security of various types of client applications and supporting infrastructure against security best practices. The Senior Consultant is a technical leader with broad and deep technical skills, meeting the objectives of their engagements, collaborating with clients, mentoring teammates, and providing subject matter expertise across one or more technical domains. The Senior Consultant is a trusted advisor to clients, and through objective testing and results reporting, supports the client in making well-informed, risk-based decisions to improve overall security posture.
What You'll Do
- Working independently and collaboratively with a team to both lead and support
- Perform penetration testing on networks, with a focus on internal networks and exploiting Active Directory vulnerabilities
- Dynamically flex your skills when assessing emerging or custom technologies.
- Lead complex engagements to provide a technical consistency approach across multiple tests.
- Contextualize vulnerabilities and assess realistic impact to a client accounting for mitigating and aggravating factors.
- Manage priorities and tasks to achieve utilization targets.
- Operate with professionalism both internally and with clients.
- Ensure quality reports and services are delivered efficiently and on time.
- Support sales and business growth by scoping out potential opportunities.
- Maintains strong depth of knowledge in the practice area.
- Collaborate with project managers, quality management, sales and other delivery team members to drive customer satisfaction and meet project deliverables.
What You'll Bring
- Network penetration testing and assessment tradecraft and methodologies
- Strong working knowledge of at least one programming or scripting languages
- Strong understanding of security principles and industry best practices.
- Minimum of 5 years’ experience in a consulting/professional services role
- Minimum of 5 years’ experience in Network Security
- Excellent consulting skills including:
- Time management, performing adjacent tasks while ensuring on-time delivery, escalating issues as needed
- Verbal communication, leading client calls for project kickoffs and debrief
- Written communication
- Report writing, for both executive audiences and technical staff.
- Expert proficiency in Network Penetration Testing, including internal network testing and exploiting Active Directory vulnerabilities
- Excellent overall technical skills, with strong expertise in at least one of the following:
- Social Engineering (both vishing & phishing)
- Physical Penetration Testing
- Mobile Application Penetration Testing
- Thick Application Penetration Testing
- Hardware Penetration Testing
- Secure Code Review
- Container Penetration Testing
- Cloud Penetration Testing
- Network Active Directory Penetration Testing
- AI Penetration Testing
Bonus Points
- OSCP, OSCE, OSEE offensive security certifications
- Significant development and engineering backgrounds
- Cloud Service penetration testing tradecraft and methodologies across multiple service providers (e.g. AWS, GCP, etc.).
- Mobile platform and application penetration testing tradecraft and methodologies across both iOS and Android.
- Red/Purple Team tradecraft and methodologies.
- Social engineering in all its forms.
- AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Professional, AWS Certified Security, AWS Certified Advanced Networking, AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
- Network, Database, System administration experience and certifications
At Coalfire, you’ll find the support you need to thrive personally and professionally. In many cases, we provide a flexible work model that empowers you to choose when and where you’ll work most effectively – whether you’re at home or an office.
Regardless of location, you’ll experience a company that prioritizes connection and wellbeing and be part of a team where people care about each other and our communities. You’ll have opportunities to join employee resource groups, participate in in-person and virtual events, and more. And you’ll enjoy competitive perks and benefits to support you and your family, like paid parental leave, flexible time off, certification and training reimbursement, digital mental health and wellbeing support membership, and comprehensive insurance options.
At Coalfire, equal opportunity and pay equity is integral to the way we do business. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, or status as a protected veteran. Coalfire is committed to providing access, equal opportunity, and reasonable accommodation for individuals with disabilities in employment, its services, programs, and activities. To request reasonable accommodation to participate in the job application or interview process, contact our Human Resources team at HumanResourcesMB@coalfire.com.
We may use artificial intelligence (AI) tools to support parts of the hiring process, such as analyzing resumes, or assessing responses. 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 contact us.
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Top Industries Hiring
- Technology & Software
- Consulting & Professional Services
What Employers Look For
The qualifications that appear most often in remote senior security consultant jobs.
- Five or more years of hands-on security consulting or equivalent professional experience
- CISSP, CISM, OSCP, or equivalent active certification required or strongly preferred
- Proficiency with penetration testing tools, SIEM platforms, or cloud security frameworks such as AWS, Azure, or GCP
- Experience delivering risk assessments, audits, or security architecture reviews for enterprise clients
- Familiarity with compliance frameworks including NIST, ISO 27001, SOC 2, or PCI DSS
- Strong written and verbal communication skills for client-facing reporting and executive presentations
Tips for Your Remote Senior Security Consultant Job Search
Apply early to remote roles that fit
Migrate Mate lists remote senior security consultant openings from across the U.S. in one place. Search current listings by skill or sector, find roles that match your background, and apply directly before postings fill.
Document your remote security work clearly
Remote hiring managers can't watch you work, so your written deliverables do the talking. Prepare sanitized samples of risk assessments, penetration testing reports, or incident response runbooks that show how you communicate findings to technical and non-technical audiences.
Prove async communication before the interview
Remote security teams run on written communication. Practice writing crisp, structured emails and Slack messages that convey complex security findings without ambiguity. Interviewers for remote roles often assess how clearly you explain yourself in writing during the application process itself.
Prepare for tool-specific remote security interviews
Remote senior security consultant interviews frequently focus on your command of distributed security tooling: SIEM platforms like Splunk or Microsoft Sentinel, cloud-native security services in AWS or Azure, and remote endpoint detection tools. Be ready to walk through real scenarios using those specific environments.
Remote Senior Security Consultant Jobs: Frequently Asked Questions
How do I get a remote senior security consultant job?
Remote senior security consultant roles go to candidates who can demonstrate independent judgment, clear async communication, and hands-on technical depth without in-person oversight. Remote-first consultancies, managed security service providers, and distributed enterprise teams are the most consistent remote hirers. Certifications like CISSP, CISM, or OSCP signal credibility fast, and a portfolio of documented assessments or incident response work closes the gap where in-person interviews cannot.
Which companies hire remote senior security consultants?
Employers currently hiring remote senior security consultants include NetSPI, Ahead, and Coalfire, per current remote listings on Migrate Mate as of August 2026. Remote-first consultancies, managed security service providers, and distributed enterprise technology companies across cybersecurity, financial services, and healthcare make up the bulk of remote openings for this role.
Can you get a remote senior security consultant job with no experience?
Yes, but remote entry-level senior security consultant roles are rare because employers expect candidates to operate independently from day one with minimal hand-holding. Smaller remote-first firms and boutique consultancies are more open to junior candidates than large enterprises. Demonstrable skills through certifications, capture-the-flag competitions, open-source contributions, or a documented home lab build give you something concrete to point to when experience is thin.
Do you need a degree for remote senior security consultant jobs?
Not always. Remote employers in security consulting weigh certifications, hands-on project work, and proven results more heavily than a degree, particularly for senior roles where output is measurable. CISSP, CISM, CEH, and OSCP carry real weight with hiring managers. A degree helps with certain government-adjacent or compliance-heavy clients, but many remote-first consultancies care far more about what you can demonstrate.
Which industries hire the most remote senior security consultants?
Remote senior security consultant roles concentrate in Technology & Software and Consulting & Professional Services, based on current remote listings on Migrate Mate as of August 2026. Those sectors rely on distributed teams managing sensitive data and complex regulatory requirements, making remote security expertise a standing operational need rather than a project-by-project hire.
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