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Senior Cyber Technical Security Consultant

Employer
Net Consulting
Location
Cardiff (Caerdydd)
Salary
£45,000 - £70,000 + Benefits
Closing date
13 May 2021

Do you like meeting new organisations and discussing their concerns relating to cyber security? Can you define and implement solutions for clients to improve the security of their digital assets?

Net Consulting are looking for people with good hands-on technical skills to join the team to provide consultancy advice and develop and implement cyber security solutions to address current and emerging concerns of our clients. You'll be part of a team informing, defining and building solutions both for our clients and our managed security services group, leveraging a state of the art security platform.

You will be expected to have a good understanding of UK cyber security practices and frameworks and stay up to date with the latest industry standards as well as best practice security guidance.

Responsibilities

• Deliver advice and guidance to internal or external customers on how to identify and minimise the impact of potential threats to assets and services.

• Liaise with potential or current partners and suppliers to evaluate the cyber security posture of their organisation or services.

• Contribute to the continuous improvement of NCL’s Cyber Security services, including identifying and implementing efficiency and quality improvements.

• Undertake solution deployments and/or consulting projects and see them through to completion.

• Provide knowledge and expertise in responding to and remediating cyber security incidents.

• Help develop and maintain company IS27001 and Cyber Essentials certifications and associated policies and controls.

• Ensure controls implemented in solutions are operating as designed to mitigate identified risks.

• Develop reports on the effectiveness of controls to internal and external stakeholders.

• Maintain awareness of current and possible future trends in information security landscape and the impact on the policies and standards in industry.

• Mentor and supervise junior staff to improve their cyber security awareness.

Skills and experience

Degree preferred or equivalent industry experience.

5+ years of experience in information/cyber security or related technology areas.

CREST Registered Technical Security Architect or similar highly desirable.

Certified Information Systems Security Professional (CISSP) or similar highly desirable.

CREST Registered Penetration Tester or similar highly desirable.

It would be great if you've strong skills in some of the following technical areas:

• Cyber threat analysis tools.

• Understanding of broad Cyber Security principles.

• Appreciation of Enterprise architectures (e.g.servers/networks/storage/backup/apps/databases).

• Security technologies (firewalls/proxies/IDPS/DLP/UTM).

• SIEM and SOAR technologies.

• End-Point Protection and Response tools.

• Border protection technologies.

• Vulnerability scanning/Penetration testing/Web Application penetration testing.

• Firewalls and intrusion detection/prevention tools.

Experience with industry compliance and one or more information security management frameworks is useful (e.g. IS027000, Cyber Essentials, COBIT, NIST 800, etc.).

Company Benefits

• Annual performance bonus & Company Performance Bonus.

• 25 days holiday per annum (pro rata, excluding Bank Holidays).

• Benefit options (Contributory pension scheme, Private Medical Insurance, Life Assurance, Health & Wellbeing).

• Critical Illness Cover.

• Brilliant opportunities to take on more responsibility and long-term career prospects.

The health and safety of our employees and clients is a top priority for Net Consulting. We are adhering to government guidelines to COVID-19 and have implemented policies and processes to prevent the spread within our offices. During the current changing COVID threat levels and ensuing government guidelines, employees are either working remotely on a full-time basis, or attending the office on a rota system.

All interviews are currently being conducted remotely, with client visits are also restricted to essential work and upon request.

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