Principal Consultant – Cyber Security & Compliance (Up to €100k+ OTE)

Location: Hybrid – Leinster (Offices in both Dublin & Portlaoise)

Salary: €60-80k base (DOE) + performance bonus + profit share

What’s in it for you:

Ownership: Take over an established portfolio of clients and run it as your own

Commercial Impact: Retain and grow accounts while building a recurring compliance and security practice

Profit Share: Directly participate in the profitability and growth of your portfolio

Progression: Join as the second Principal with a genuine path towards wider practice leadership

Environment: Join a profitable, growing cybersecurity business using AI and automation at the heart of how it delivers

This is an opportunity to take ownership of a client portfolio within a growing cybersecurity and compliance consultancy.

You’ll inherit existing clients, have an established technical delivery team behind you and take responsibility for keeping those clients, growing the relationships and running your portfolio commercially.

It’s not purely consulting and it’s not purely sales.

You’ll sit between cybersecurity expertise, client leadership and commercial ownership, becoming the person clients trust to guide their security and compliance programmes.

The Role:

As Principal Consultant, you’ll lead engagements across areas including ISO 27001, SOC 2 and ISO 42001, working primarily with funded and scaling technology companies.

You’ll own the client relationship from initial scoping through delivery and ongoing support, directing the technical team while ensuring clients get the right outcomes.

A major focus will be developing long-term relationships — helping clients move from one-off certification projects into ongoing security and compliance partnerships.

What You’ll Be Doing:

Client & Engagement Leadership

Own senior client relationships, lead engagements and translate technical security work into clear outcomes for CTOs and leadership teams.

Portfolio Growth

Take responsibility for retention and account growth, identifying opportunities across ongoing compliance, new frameworks, audits and penetration testing.

Security & Compliance

Lead programmes across ISO 27001, SOC 2, ISO 42001 and related security and regulatory requirements.

Delivery Leadership

Direct and quality-assure the work of security engineers supporting your accounts, ensuring projects stay on track and meet the right standards.

Commercial Ownership

Support scoping, proposals and new business while developing your portfolio into a profitable, recurring client base.

AI-Native Delivery

Use AI, automation and modern security tooling to improve how consulting and compliance work gets delivered.

What You’ll Need:

• Around 3–5+ years’ experience across cybersecurity and consulting
• Strong knowledge of ISO 27001, SOC 2 or similar security/compliance frameworks
• The technical credibility to work with engineers and advise CTOs
• Experience owning client relationships, rather than only individual projects or workstreams
• A strong commercial mindset with the ability to retain and grow accounts
• Excellent communication skills and the ability to make complex security topics clear
• Comfortable taking ownership and working independently in a growing company

Nice to Have:

• Experience with vCISO, managed GRC, outsourced DPO or other recurring security/compliance services
• CISSP, CISM, CISA, ISO 27001 Lead Implementer/Auditor or similar certifications
• Experience with Vanta, Drata or similar compliance platforms
• Exposure to proposals, commercial targets or P&L responsibility
• Experience working with startup or scale-up clients
• Hands-on experience using AI and automation tools in your day-to-day work

What Success Looks Like:

You’ll take ownership of an existing client portfolio and quickly become the trusted senior point of contact.

You’ll retain and grow those relationships, build a strong recurring revenue base and ensure the technical team consistently delivers excellent work.

As the business grows, there’s a clear opportunity to move beyond running your own portfolio and towards broader practice leadership.

Interested?

If you’re a cybersecurity professional who enjoys the client and commercial side of the job as much as the technical side, this is an opportunity to take ownership rather than simply deliver someone else’s projects. If you're interested give me a shout!