Security Consultant

We are seeking a customer-focused Security Consultant to join our Professional Services team and partner with customers to design, extend, and mature their security programs. This role involves providing architecture guidance, building custom integrations, driving automation, and delivering hands-on advisory support. Success in this role requires balancing deep technical delivery with strategic problem-solving to ensure solutions are scalable, aligned to customer risk priorities, and positioned for long-term adoption.
This is an exciting opportunity where you can make a meaningful impact by helping customers solve complex security challenges.
About the Team
Rapid7's Professional Services team is composed of field experts with years of security experience, helping customers extract the maximum value from Rapid7's vulnerability management and detection capabilities. Our services are tailored to operationalize vulnerability management programs, augment SOC operations with SIEM, automation, and reporting workflows, and align security tooling to real-world operational needs.
Working directly with customer teams and their existing technology stacks, we help design, configure, and extend Rapid7 solutions in alignment with industry best practices and customer risk priorities. Our engagements focus on delivering measurable security outcomes, making efficient use of customer budgets, and positioning customers for long-term success as their security programs mature.
About the Role
The Security Consultant is a post-sales role that partners closely with customers to understand their architecture, operational constraints, and security requirements. Consultants design and implement scalable security solutions using Rapid7 products, while sharing best practices to help customers solve complex security challenges and achieve meaningful outcomes. Specifically your focus will be to:

• Evaluate customer information technology architectures across a broad range of industries and organization sizes to deploy Rapid7 products and apply security best practices within the scope of those solutions
• Design, implement, and document scalable solutions, clearly communicating design decisions and implementation details to customer stakeholders
• Automate and customize deployments through API scripting, reporting, and custom dashboard development to help customers use Rapid7 products efficiently
• Partner with sales teams by providing enablement on service offerings and assisting with technical scoping during the sales cycle
• Contribute to internal enablement materials, team infrastructure, processes, tooling, and delivery collateral
• Own customer technical outcomes by validating implementations, addressing technical gaps, and ensuring solutions align to operational goals
• Provide product feedback and influence roadmap direction through insights gathered from customer engagements
• Help shape how Rapid7 delivers professional services by building repeatable solutions, improving internal tooling, and mentoring peers
• Willingness to travel up to 10% as needed

The skills and qualities you'll bring include:

• Experience working with modern security technologies such as SIEM and log management, vulnerability management, identity and access management, governance, risk, and compliance (GRC), endpoint protection, and intrusion detection or prevention systems
• Strong Python experience building scalable, documented, and maintainable solutions that interact with relational databases (Postgres), REST APIs, and data pipelines; experience with ETL workflows is a plus
• Ability to write and optimize SQL queries, including complex JOINs and subqueries
• Experience integrating with ticketing systems, CI/CD pipelines, and password vaults is a plus
• Familiarity with the InsightVM data model and data warehouse is a plus
• Solid understanding of network technologies and protocols such as DHCP, IP, DNS, and HTTP/S
• Experience deploying and operating workloads in cloud environments such as AWS, Azure, or GCP, including policy and configuration management
• Administrator-level experience with Windows Server and Linux environments
• Prior consulting or professional services experience is a plus
• Communicates technical decisions and recommendations clearly to drive alignment, trust, and commitment across stakeholders.
• Owns customer outcomes end-to-end by setting clear expectations and delivering on commitments that create measurable value.
• Applies a strategic mindset to customer challenges by designing scalable solutions while executing in focused, time-bound phases-continuously assessing progress, incorporating feedback, and adjusting your approach to achieve meaningful outcomes.
• Demonstrates comfort operating in evolving customer environments by understanding the why behind change, adapting delivery approaches as needed, and maintaining forward momentum while balancing shifting priorities and constraints.
• Core Values Embodiment: Embody our core values to foster a culture of excellence that drives meaningful impact and collective success

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.
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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.