Careers at Varcoe
Senior bench,
three ways in.
We hire for the bench, not for seats. Full-time W-2, corp-to-corp, and independent contractors all run alongside each other on the same partnerships. The work is senior and the rates reflect it.
Send a resume · quinn@varcoe.ai
Full-time
Senior practitioner, W-2
Permanent bench. Senior-only — every name on the roster lands on the proposal. Remote-first, U.S.-based. Health, dental, vision, and a real laptop.
Open across MSP, MSSP, AI, Compliance, and Offensive practices.
Send a resumeCorp-to-corp
C2C, gladly
Have your own LLC or S-Corp? Bring it. We work corp-to-corp without friction — MSA, SOW, COI, NDA all handled in days, not weeks. Your entity, your invoicing cadence, our partnership.
Common for senior IR, vCISO, FedRAMP, and ISO 42001 practitioners.
Send a resume1099 contractor
Contractors are great
Independent contractors are part of how we deliver. Project-based or retainer, full-time-equivalent or 10 hours a week — whatever the engagement actually needs. We pay senior rates because the work is senior.
Fastest path in: a discrete diagnostic or one-line subject-matter engagement.
Send a resumeHow to apply
One email. No portal, no recruiter loop.
Step 01
Send the resume
Email quinn@varcoe.aiwith a resume attached, the practice area you fit, and your engagement preference (W-2 / C2C / 1099). One paragraph on the most production-grade thing you’ve shipped beats a five-page CV.
Step 02
First call with Quinn
30 minutes. The first conversation is with the founder, not a recruiter. We talk through scope, rate, engagement type, and whether the bench fits both ways. If yes, we move to a working session.
Step 03
Working session
Paid working session on a real engagement artifact — an IR tabletop, an ISO 42001 gap analysis, an MDR detection package. We don’t do whiteboard hazing. We hire on demonstrated work.
Step 04
Offer or referral
Offer in days, not weeks. If the fit isn’t right, we’ll often refer to a peer firm where it is — the practitioner community is small and we’d rather make a good intro than ghost.
The honest version
What you should know, before you send anything.
What gets you a call back
Real production scars on the resume — incident response in anger, FedRAMP or ISO 42001 attestations you actually drove, an LLM product that shipped to paying users. Specific war stories beat generic certifications.
What we don't do
Tier-1 helpdesk, offshore phone queues, junior account management, or 'we'll throw you on a SOC' staffing. The practice is senior-only by design and we won't compromise the bench to fill a seat.
Pay band
Senior rates, published bands at offer time. W-2 base + bonus, C2C all-in hourly, or 1099 day rate — whichever fits how you work. Equity available for the right founding-bench hires.
Geography
Remote-first across the U.S. Naples, FL HQ for anyone who wants to drop in. Cleared work (DoD, DIB, federal civilian) requires U.S. citizen + active or recent clearance.
Ready
Send the resume.
Direct to the founder. NDA-protected from first reply. Senior bench, all three engagement types, every practice area open.
Trusted by partners across the practice
Reviews
From the senior people
who’ve worked alongside Quinn.
The named companies beside each reviewer are their employers — not Varcoe partnerships. Each quote is a professional reference from someone who’s shipped work alongside Quinn directly.
“The partnership model isn't marketing language with Quinn — it's how she actually works. Senior judgment, single accountable contact, and the rigor to integrate across IT, security, and AI under one roof.”
Aaron Birnbaum
Managing Partner
“Quinnlan brings more than expertise — she brings strategic alignment. The ability to scale operations without sacrificing depth is exactly what serious organizations need from a modernization partner.”
Caroline Lombard
Threat Specialist
“I've worked with Quinnlan on incidents most teams couldn't navigate — Log4j among them. The technical depth and the calm under fire are real, and they're rare.”
Justin Cox
Senior AWS Security Analyst
“One of the most seamless collaborations I've had in this industry. Composure under pressure, technical precision, and the kind of credibility that compounds — exactly the senior bench a modernization partnership needs.”
Soufiane Jihadi
Senior Incident Response Consultant
Original references collected on the legacy Varcoe site · LinkedIn endorsements available on request