Security Consultant GoToMarket

IBM
IBM

IT

Tokyo, Japan

Posted on Sep 28, 2026
Introduction

A career in IBM Consulting is rooted by long-term relationships and close collaboration with clients across the globe. You'll work with visionaries across multiple industries to improve the hybrid cloud and AI journey for the most innovative and valuable companies in the world. Your ability to accelerate impact and make meaningful change for your clients is enabled by our strategic partner ecosystem and our robust technology platforms across the IBM portfolio; including Software and Red Hat. Curiosity and a constant quest for knowledge serve as the foundation to success in IBM Consulting. In your role, you'll be encouraged to challenge the norm, investigate ideas outside of your role, and come up with creative solutions resulting in ground breaking impact for a wide network of clients. Our culture of evolution and empathy centers on long-term career growth and development opportunities in an environment that embraces your unique skills and experience.

Your role and responsibilities

IBM's Cybersecurity business provides end-to-end services, ranging from security consulting and the design and implementation of security products and services to SOC (Security Operations Center) monitoring. We help clients strengthen their cyber defense capabilities, detect threats, respond to incidents, and maintain compliance with relevant regulations and standards.

The position we are currently recruiting for focuses on proposing, designing, and implementing security products and services. In this role, you will work closely with clients to understand their security requirements, recommend appropriate solutions and services, and help drive business opportunities. Acting as a trusted partner in cybersecurity, you will support clients in addressing their security challenges.

In addition to IBM's own security offerings, IBM implements and manages a wide range of third-party security solutions for clients. We are seeking professionals with expertise in areas such as network security, identity and access management (IAM), and privileged access management (PAM). As part of IBM Security's global organization, you will also have opportunities to work with cutting-edge technologies, including AI-powered security analytics and security automation.

Approximately half of the members of our security organization joined IBM through experienced-hire recruitment. We foster a collaborative environment where professionals from diverse backgrounds can learn from one another, share knowledge, and grow together.

Required education
None
Required technical and professional expertise
  • Proven track record of delivering cybersecurity projects and developing security solution proposals.

    Strong understanding of networking technologies and concepts, including TCP/IP, VPN, firewalls, proxies, and DNS.

    Fundamental knowledge of operating systems (Windows and Linux), including system administration and security configuration.

    Security expertise in cloud environments such as AWS, Microsoft Azure, and Google Cloud Platform (GCP).

    Experience gathering and analyzing customer security requirements and challenges, and translating them into effective security solution proposals.

    Experience designing and implementing security architectures encompassing network security, identity and access management, endpoint security, and cloud security.

    Professional certifications such as CISSP, CISA, CISM, or other globally recognized cybersecurity certifications are preferred.

    At least two areas of cybersecurity specialization, with a minimum of 3 to 5 years of delivery and/or solution proposal experience in each area.

    (Role assignment and level will be determined based on the candidate’s demonstrated experience and achievements.)

    Hands-on implementation experience with at least one of the following:

    Identity and Access Management (IAM)

    Privileged Access Management (PAM)

    Microsegmentation

    Secure Access Service Edge (SASE)

    Security Operations Center (SOC) solutions and operations

Preferred technical and professional experience

• 英語でのコミュニケーション能力

• 革新的なソリューション開発：統合型ソリューションを提供するための新たなサービスや手法を創出した経験は、成果を上げる上で強みとなります。

• 事業部門横断的な知見：複数の事業部門に関する知識は、顧客のニーズを満たす、複雑かつ競争力のある優れた統合型ソリューションを開発する上で役立ちます。

ABOUT BUSINESS UNIT

IBM Consulting is IBM’s consulting and global professional services business, with market leading capabilities in business and technology transformation. With deep expertise in many industries, we offer strategy, experience, technology, and operations services to many of the most innovative and valuable companies in the world. Our people are focused on accelerating our clients’ businesses through the power of collaboration. We believe in the power of technology responsibly used to help people, partners and the planet.

YOUR LIFE @ IBM

In a world where technology never stands still, we understand that, dedication to our clients success, innovation that matters, and trust and personal responsibility in all our relationships, lives in what we do as IBMers as we strive to be the catalyst that makes the world work better.

Being an IBMer means you’ll be able to learn and develop yourself and your career, you’ll be encouraged to be courageous and experiment everyday, all whilst having continuous trust and support in an environment where everyone can thrive whatever their personal or professional background.

Our IBMers are growth minded, always staying curious, open to feedback and learning new information and skills to constantly transform themselves and our company. They are trusted to provide on-going feedback to help other IBMers grow, as well as collaborate with colleagues keeping in mind a team focused approach to include different perspectives to drive exceptional outcomes for our customers. The courage our IBMers have to make critical decisions everyday is essential to IBM becoming the catalyst for progress, always embracing challenges with resources they have to hand, a can-do attitude and always striving for an outcome focused approach within everything that they do.

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ABOUT IBM

IBM’s greatest invention is the IBMer. We believe that through the application of intelligence, reason and science, we can improve business, society and the human condition, bringing the power of an open hybrid cloud and AI strategy to life for our clients and partners around the world.

Restlessly reinventing since 1911, we are not only one of the largest corporate organizations in the world, we’re also one of the biggest technology and consulting employers, with many of the Fortune 500 companies relying on the IBM Cloud to run their business.

At IBM, we pride ourselves on being an early adopter of artificial intelligence, quantum computing and blockchain. Now it’s time for you to join us on our journey to being a responsible technology innovator and a force for good in the world.

IBM is proud to be an equal-opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, national origin, genetics, pregnancy, disability, neurodivergence, age, or other characteristics protected by the applicable law. IBM is also committed to compliance with all fair employment practices regarding citizenship and immigration status.

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