Senior Product Security Consultant

At Rapid7, our people are passionate about security, challenging convention to create a more secure future. As part of a talented and passionate team, Rapid7 Product Consulting helps customers build and cultivate an exceptional security program through the use of Rapid7’s product suite.

About the Team
Rapid7’s Security Consulting team is composed of field experts with years of security experience, helping customers extract the maximum value of our vulnerability management solutions. Our deployment services are tailored to operationalize vulnerability management programs, augmenting deployments with product configurations, process automation, and reporting workflows. Security problems and customers are global – so we are too! We have consultants in most major areas of the world, and we need you!

About the Role

The Product Security Consultant is a post-sales role that works closely with customers to understand their architecture and security compliance requirements while deploying Rapid7 products to meet those needs and sharing best practices on how our tools solve complex security challenges.

In this role, you will:

• Evaluate information technology architecture within customer environments across a broad range of industries and proportions to deploy Rapid7 products, and advise on security best practices within the scope of these products

• Document and communicate design & implementation details to customer end users

• Automate and customize solutions to enable customers to use Rapid7 products most efficiently via API scripting, reporting, and custom dashboard development

• Support sales teams by providing enablement on available offerings and by providing scoping assistance during the sales cycle.

• Generate, Maintain and deliver R7 internal enablement materials to team members and cross-functional R7 partners, as well as team infrastructure, internal processes, tooling, and collateral

• Willingness to travel up to 30%

The skills you’ll bring include:

• At least 5 years of technical experience working with security applications: Security Information and Event (SIEM)/ Log Management, Governance Risk Compliance (GRC), Identity Access Management, IDS/IPS, Advanced Persistent Threat, Anti-Virus, Vulnerability Management

• Experience with scripting languages and databases:

  • Python or Powershell

  • SQL

  • Interacting with APIs

• Experience communicating highly technical concepts to a non-technical audience

• Understanding of network technologies and protocols (e.g. DHCP, IP, DNS, HTTP, etc.)

• Experience deploying and maintaining virtual machines and configuring policies on cloud platforms (e.g. Amazon Web Services (AWS), Microsoft Azure, Google Cloud Platform (GCP))

• Administrator-level experience with Microsoft Windows Server, Linux and/or MacOS operating systems

• Customer Centric Communication: Ability to translate complex technical concepts and security best practices into clear, actionable guidance for customers with varying levels of technical expertise.

• Technical Collaboration & Enablement: Ability to partner sales teams to provide technical expertise and support throughout the customer lifecycle, from pre-sales scoping to post-implementation success.

• Adaptive Problem solving: Analyze and troubleshoot complex technical issues within diverse customer environments, swiftly developing and implementing creative solutions to ensure successful product deployment.

We know that the best ideas and solutions come from multi-dimensional teams. That’s because these teams reflect a variety of backgrounds and professional experiences. If you are excited about this role and feel your experience can make an impact, please don’t be shy - apply today.

About Rapid7

At Rapid7, our vision is to create a secure digital world for our customers, our industry, and our communities. We do this by harnessing our collective expertise and passion to challenge what’s possible and drive extraordinary impact. We’re building a dynamic and collaborative workplace where new ideas are welcome.

Protecting 11,000+ customers against bad actors and threats means we’re continuing to push the envelope just like we’ ve been doing for the past 20 years. If you ’re ready to solve some of the toughest challenges in cybersecurity, we’re ready to help you take command of your career. Join us.

Rapid7, Inc. is committed to fair and equitable compensation practices. A candidate’s salary is determined by various factors including, but not limited to, relevant work experience, skills, and certifications. We evaluate compensation decisions on a case-by-case basis, and it is not typical for an individual to be hired at the very top of the salary range.

The salary range for this role in the US is:

Salary ranges may vary based on geographical location. This range does not include variable/incentive compensation, equity and benefits (where applicable/eligible).

All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, age, national origin, disability, protected veteran status or any other status protected by applicable national, federal, state or local law.