Cyber Security Consultant
London, Hybrid working
£80K + Bens

This is an exciting opportunity to join a world class consultancy arm, as a Cyber Security Risk Consultant, supporting the next phase of company growth. You’ll be joining a culture of knowledge sharing and continuous learning with expert peers in Secure Architecture and Risk planning. The company works across a number of sectors with a diverse client base. 

In this role you’ll work within the Consulting team, supporting new and existing clients across various sectors to define and implement security risk assessment and best practice solutions that match their requirements. You’ll work in close partnership with clients to ensure the delivery of expert services by complementing their inhouse Information and Cyber Security resources combining expertise in information security, solution architecture and business advice.

As a Security Consultant, you will be responsible for the identification of risks relating to Security Architecture, maintaining an awareness of published vulnerabilities and best practices across various platforms, especially cloud infrastructures. Working across the business and multiple technology platforms, you will play a key role in ensuring our clients make the best use of their existing technology and make proportionate, risk-informed decisions, ensuring protection of client assets and transformation of their security architecture.

General Responsibilities:

• Have an excellent understanding of risk management and assessment principles and frameworks, such as ISO27005 and the NIST Cyber Security Framework
• Work with multi-disciplinary teams, helping to ensure that products are delivered in a secure manner that is aligned with the wider business risk appetite.
• Produce informative and succinct reporting that clearly articulates any identified vulnerabilities, associated risks, controls and risk treatment activity.
• Facilitate workshops with the various Authority departments, to align with wider HMG transformational Security and risk management outcomes.
• Provide accurate and pragmatic remediation/risk management guidance/advice.
• Have an understanding of risk assessment in and agile delivery environment
• Be skilled in workshop facilitation particularly with respect to risk identification and assessment.
• Exceptional team working ethic and interpersonal skills
• Good level of knowledge of the cyber security industry
• Have a good understanding of modern IT technologies and services, such as Cloud Computing, Mobile Computing, IT Security, Infrastructure technologies, Zero Trust and demonstrate an understanding of security architecture.

Job requirements:

• Customer focused and a strong verbal and written communicator.
• Possess strong hands on experience in reviewing project delivery plans relating to security systems; evaluation of network and security technologies; developing requirements for network and cloud security designs as well as hardware & software.
• Have experience building and implementing secure by design principals within the software development lifecycle (SDLC).
• Possess awareness and understanding of HMG and NCSC Security policies, standards and guidance.
• Passionate in cyber security.
• Able to deliver training to end users.
• Motivated, self-directed and able to work in large and virtual team.

·Must hold a current government security vetting at SC level

·Must be currently resident in the UK