The Role
The Cyber Risk Advisor serves as a trusted consultant, leading advisory sessions, interpreting vulnerability data, and providing remediation guidance to mitigate cyber risks for customers.
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About Us
Sophos is a cybersecurity leader defending 600,000 organizations globally with an AI-driven platform and expert-led services. Sophos meets organizations wherever they are in their security maturity and grows with them to defeat cyberattacks. Its solutions combine machine learning, automation, and real-time threat intelligence with frontline human expertise from Sophos X-Ops to deliver advanced, 24/7 threat monitoring, detection, and response.
Sophos offers industry-leading managed detection and response (MDR) alongside a comprehensive portfolio of cybersecurity technologies — including endpoint, network, email, and cloud security, extended detection and response (XDR), identity threat detection and response (ITDR), and next-gen SIEM. Together with expert advisory services, these capabilities help organizations proactively reduce risk and respond faster, with the visibility and scalability needed to stay ahead of evolving threats.
Sophos goes to market with a global partner ecosystem, including Managed Service Providers (MSPs), Managed Security Service Providers (MSSPs), resellers and distributors, marketplace integrations, and cyber risk partners, giving organizations the flexibility to choose trusted relationships when securing their business. Sophos is headquartered in Oxford, U.K. More information is available at www.sophos.com.
Role Summary
The Cyber Risk Advisor I serves as a trusted cybersecurity consultant to customers, helping them understand and mitigate cyber risks. This role involves leading advisory sessions, interpreting vulnerability data, and providing prioritized remediation guidance. The advisor monitors customer environments for threats and ensures measurable reductions in attack surfaces. Strong communication skills are essential for translating technical findings to both executive and technical audiences.
What You Will Do
- Serve as the cyber risk trusted advisor for your customers. You will simplify complex vulnerabilities, explain real-world attack scenarios, and guide customers toward the right cyber risk mitigation decisions.
- Lead Cyber Risk Advisory Sessions with customers where you will contextualize and prioritize vulnerability and exposure results, cyber risk trends, and overall security posture with the goal of facilitating positive security outcomes for your customers.
- Provide prioritized, context-driven cyber risk remediation recommendations, helping customers focus on the vulnerabilities most likely to be weaponized by the threat actors.
- Assist in monitoring customer environments for critical vulnerabilities, exposures, and emerging threats, escalating and advising on timely remediation.
- Ensure that our Managed Risk service translates into measurable reductions in your customers’ overall attack surface.
- Build professional, trust-based relationships with customers.
- Continuously develop your skills through mentorship and hands-on experience.
What You Will Bring
- 2-3 years of experience in cybersecurity or related IT fields.
- Strong knowledge of enterprise networking concepts (routing, switching, VLANs, firewalls, VPNs, and remote access technologies).
- Strong knowledge of vulnerability management, attack surface management (reduction), and common security frameworks (NIST, CIS, ISO, etc.).
- Hands-on experience with EASM/IASM tools, vulnerability scanning platforms, and remediation workflows.
- Excellent communication and advisory skills, with the ability to simplify technical findings for executives while going deep with technical teams.
- Proven ability to prioritize and manage multiple customer relationships, balancing consultative guidance with timely escalation of critical risks.
- A proactive, problem-solving mindset and the drive to help customers reduce their overall cyber risk.
Nice to have
- Industry certifications such as CompTIA Network+ or equivalent networking credentials, alongside security certifications such as CISSP, CISM, OSCP, CEH, or Security+.
- Hands-on experience working with Tenable Nessus and/or the Tenable One platform.
- Background in Incident Response, Threat Intelligence, or Red/Blue Team operations.
- Knowledge of cloud security (AWS, Azure, GCP) and securing hybrid and cloud environments.
- Prior experience in a customer-facing consultancy or advisory role with the ability to bridge networking and security conversations.
Ready to Join Us?
At Sophos, we believe in the power of diverse perspectives to fuel innovation. Research shows that candidates sometimes hesitate to apply if they don't check every box in a job description. We challenge that notion. Your unique experiences and skills might be exactly what we need to enhance our team. Don't let a checklist hold you back – we encourage you to apply.
What's Great About Sophos?
· Sophos operates a remote-first working model, making remote work the primary option for most employees. However, some roles may necessitate a hybrid approach. While we are a remote first organization, applicants must have legal authorization to work in the jurisdiction where the position is posted, without requiring employer sponsorship.
· Our people – we innovate and create, all of which are accompanied by a great sense of fun and team spirit
· Employee-led diversity and inclusion networks that build community and provide education and advocacy
· Annual charity and fundraising initiatives and volunteer days for employees to support local communities
· Global employee sustainability initiatives to reduce our environmental footprint
· Global fitness and trivia competitions to keep our bodies and minds sharp
· Global wellbeing days for employees to relax and recharge
· Monthly wellbeing webinars and training to support employee health and wellbeing
Our Commitment To You
We’re proud of the diverse and inclusive environment we have at Sophos, and we’re committed to ensuring equality of opportunity. We believe that diversity, combined with excellence, builds a better Sophos, so we encourage applicants who can contribute to the diversity of our team. All applicants will be treated in a fair and equal manner and in accordance with the law regardless of gender, sex, gender reassignment, marital status, race, religion or belief, color, age, military veteran status, disability, pregnancy, maternity or sexual orientation. We want to give you every opportunity to show us your best self, so if there are any adjustments we could make to the recruitment and selection process to support you, please let us know.
Data Protection
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Skills Required
- 2-3 years of experience in cybersecurity or related IT fields
- Strong knowledge of enterprise networking concepts
- Strong knowledge of vulnerability management and attack surface management
- Hands-on experience with EASM/IASM tools and vulnerability scanning platforms
- Excellent communication and advisory skills
Sophos Compensation & Benefits Highlights
The following summarizes recurring compensation and benefits themes identified from responses generated by popular LLMs to common candidate questions about Sophos and has not been reviewed or approved by Sophos.
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Leave & Time Off Breadth — Time away is positioned as broad, with company-wide wellness days plus dedicated learning days and paid volunteer time.
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Parental & Family Support — Family-related leave appears more comprehensive than baseline offerings, including paid parental leave, caregiver leave, and extended bereavement leave.
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Wellbeing & Lifestyle Benefits — Wellbeing support is emphasized through always-available assistance resources and a Calm subscription, suggesting a lifestyle-oriented benefits approach.
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The Company
What We Do
Cybersecurity Evolved. As a worldwide leader in next-generation cybersecurity, Sophos protects nearly 400,000 organizations of all sizes in more than 150 countries from today’s most advanced cyberthreats. Powered by SophosLabs – a global threat intelligence and data science team – Sophos’ cloud-native and AI-enhanced solutions secure endpoints (laptops, servers and mobile devices) and networks against evolving cybercriminal tactics and techniques, including automated and active-adversary breaches, ransomware, malware, exploits, data exfiltration, phishing, and more.
