Job Reference: CYBSEC1
Job Duration:
Start date: ASAP
Description:
Cyber Security Consultant (**SC Clearance IS Required**)
Role: Cyber Security consultant
Sector: Defence
Location: South England
Job type: Hybrid (2/3 days on client site per week)
Salary: £60,000 - £80,000
Our client is national leader in the IT consulting sector, working with multiple UK public sector organisations such as Ministry of Defence, Ministry of Justice, and National Health Service to name a few. This is a great opportunity to be part of a team of enthusiastic andpassionate consultants, all trying to help make the UK an even better place.
As a Cyber Security Consultant, you will have the opportunity to provide support to a wide range of high-profile UK public sector and defence organisations. Your help asa cyber security consultant will enable them to protect their ICT investments, and in doing so play a key role in nationally critical projects which make a real positive difference to people's everyday lives. The cyber security consultant will be given theopportunity to undertake a variety of roles throughout the project lifecycle, working across a wide-ranging set of clients andcutting-edge technologies. This could include providing projects with advice and guidance on Information Assurance topics, contributing to the development of IA strategies, policies, guidance, and awareness, planning and managing the delivery of a securitywork programme, defining security requirements, designing and implementing security architectures, or overseeing the secure development and accreditation of information systems.
What you will be doing as a Cyber Security Consultant:* Providing security expertise for major system procurements and Agile programmes to ensure secure solution delivery.
* Identifying, analysing and evaluating information risks across a range of programmes, projects and systems.
* Explaining to risk owners and other stakeholders the causes, likelihood, and potential business impacts of information risks throughout the information system lifecycle.
* Identifying and presenting options for treating or transferring information risks.
* Authoring and/orsupporting the development of security assurance documentation in accordance with risk management frameworks.
* Developing orreviewing new security architectures that mitigate the risks posed by new technologies and business practices.
* Providing consultancy to customers on information assurance and architectural problems
* Scoping security testing activities and explainingthe results and required remediation.
* Conducting security monitoring and investigating security incidents.
What weneed from you as a Cyber Security Consultant:
* Experience of complex ICT systems in a technical delivery or consultingcapacity
* A good understanding of enterprise information and communications technology
* The ability to present and justify conclusions to project teams and business stakeholders
* Proven abilities in delivering to client expectations and requirements.
* Strong verbal and written communications skills.
* Structured security frameworks, such as HMG SPF and ISO27001.
*Security, technical and enterprise architecture methods such as TOGAF and SABSA.
* Technical risk assessments.
* Software development and delivery.
* ICT service delivery, including ITIL.
* Enterprise security packages, security enforcing softwareand devices, such as identity management and federation, cryptography, public key infrastructure, firewalls, SIEM, vulnerabilityscanning, etc.
*****SC IS REQUIRED FOR THIS CYBER SECURITY CONSULTANT ROLE*****
Industry: IT
Salary: £60000 - £80000 per annum + Bonus + Benefits
Salary Benefits: Bonus + Benefits
Vacancy Type: Permanent
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Contact Name: David Ormrod
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