Position Overview:The Cybersecurity Advisor II is an experienced, technically capable consultant who helps clients set and advance their cybersecurity strategy over long-term engagements. Beyond point-in-time assessment, the Advisor builds trusted, ongoing relationships - translating risk into a prioritized roadmap, guiding governance and framework alignment, and helping leadership make sound, business-aware security decisions. This role embodies Apollo's intelligence-led, business-first approach: see clearly, secure wisely
Key Responsibilities:- Serve as a trusted advisor to client stakeholders, helping define and advance cybersecurity strategy across multi-month and multi-year engagements.
- Develop prioritized, business-aware security roadmaps that mature client posture over time.
- Advise on governance, risk, and compliance - aligning programs to frameworks such as NIST CSF 2.0, CIS Controls, ISO 27001, CMMC, HIPAA, or PCI DSS.
- Translate technical risk into clear business language for executives and boards.
- Own the advisory relationship for assigned clients, driving cadence, measurable progress, and demonstrable risk reduction.
- Partner with assessors and engineers to ground recommendations in technical reality and validate remediation.
- Guide clients through security program development - policy, process, architecture direction, and tooling strategy.
- Support incident readiness, tabletop exercises, and post-incident program improvement as needed.
- Contribute to the maturation of Apollo's advisory methodology, frameworks, and deliverable templates.
- Mentor junior team members and share knowledge across the practice.
- Stay current with emerging threats, regulatory change, and the evolving security technology landscape.
Qualifications- Required
- Cybersecurity experience, including client-facing advisory, consulting, or security leadership
- Demonstrated ability to develop and communicate cybersecurity strategy and roadmaps to executive audiences.
- Deep working knowledge of one or more major frameworks (NIST CSF, CIS Controls, ISO 27001, CMMC) and how to operationalize them.
- Strong understanding of security architecture, controls, and risk across on-premises and cloud environments.
- Exceptional written and verbal communication; able to lead executive and board-level conversations.
- Experience managing long-term client relationships and multiple concurrent engagements.
- Ability to travel for work, up to 65%
- Preferred
- Senior certifications such as CISSP, CISM, CCSP, or CISA.
- Prior vCISO, security manager, or security architect experience.
- Experience in regulated industries or the public sector.
- Familiarity with cloud security across Azure, AWS, GCP, and M365.
Expectations:- At 30 days:
- Complete onboarding to Apollo's advisory methodology, deliverable templates, and client engagement model
- Shadow senior advisors and review at least two active client portfolios to calibrate Apollo's voice, delivery standard, and how technical findings get translated into executive-ready language
- Meet your assigned clients, introduce yourself as their advisor, and establish a clear communication cadence and mutual understanding of engagement goals
- Within 90 days:
- Own the advisory relationship for assigned clients independently
- Deliver at least one executive-ready artifact (roadmap update, risk briefing, board summary, or governance deliverable) that reflects Apollo's business-first approach and earns direct positive feedback from the client
- Demonstrate working fluency across the frameworks relevant to your client portfolio (NIST CSF 2.0, CIS Controls, CMMC, or others) - not just familiarity, but the ability to operationalize and explain tradeoffs in client-specific terms
- Build effective working relationships with Apollo's assessors and engineers - actively partnering to ground advisory recommendations in technical reality and validate remediation progress
- By 180 days:
- Carry a full portfolio of long-term advisory engagements with measurable, documented risk reduction across clients
- Be recognized internally as a subject matter expert
- Contribute at least one improvement to Apollo's advisory methodology, framework templates, or deliverable standards that gets adopted practice-wide
- Demonstrate command of the regulatory and threat landscape relevant to Apollo's SLED and SMB clients
Company ValuesWe have created a fantastic corporate culture - our values drive our behaviors. Here are the expectations:
- Passion for cybersecurity and a commitment to maintaining the highest standards of security.
- Customer Outcomes: Their success is our success, we are business partners
- Entrepreneurial Approach: fast decision making, empowerment, focus on results, test and learn
- Win Together: Intense Collaboration, no silos
- Integrity is paramount
Why You'll Love Working Here- Comprehensive medical, dental, and vision coverage, the company covers 100% of employee premiums and 90% of dependent premiums on base plans
- Unlimited PTO, 7 paid sick days, and 11 paid holidays
- 401(k) with 4% company match after 90 days, immediately vested
- Company-paid life insurance at 1x annual salary
- Company-paid Short-Term Disability (STD) and Long-Term Disability (LTD) coverage
- $125 monthly home-office tech stipend for internet, equipment, and other technology needs
- Amazing colleagues, a collaborative environment, and a supportive, growth-focused culture
