One of the top ten defence companies is looking for ambitious and creative cyber professionals to help safeguard UK national infrastructure and become a recognised cyber expert.
This role will be positioned in the Cyber Consulting Practice within the organisation to help clients deliver and secure their digital transformation. The Cyber & Security Division is at the forefront of supplying technology and services for both civil and defence markets, in both the UK and around the world. The organisation’s practice is UK NCSC certified in the provision of advice and guidance to customers across both enterprise and operational technology NCSC defined security domains of Governance and Risk Management, Security Architecture and Compliance.
This position can be either remote or hybrid based in the Bristol office, with occasional travel to client sites.

Responsibilities include:

• Relate and understand the clients’ business and their problems. As a consultant, you will help by actively listening to build meaningful relationship and find potential solutions.
• Identify, measure, and analyse the risks for digital systems and information assets by performing risk assessments.
• Assist with defining appropriate and proportionate security solutions and communicate them effectively to clients through the creation of architecture visions, patterns and designs.
• Assist in building a viable offering for customers as well as help in the technical development of the organisation’s products.
• Assist in defining, implementing and performing assessments of customers’ environments against a given set of criteria in heavily regulated industries.

What you’ll need to succeed:

• Ability and willingness to go through UK security clearance (applicants MUST have 5 years continuous residency in the UK)
• Cyber Security degree and/or professional certifications such as CISM, CISSP, CRISC, CASP, CEH
• Be certified by or in the process of obtaining certifications by a well-known standards body in the provision of audits such as ISACA
• Understanding of TCP/IP based networking concepts across the OSI model layer, common protocols in use and their risks
• Experience managing project delivery and associated costs, such as time, cost and quality.
• Ability to manage multiple stakeholders and communicate abstract risk-based concepts and approaches to both technical and non-technical customers
• Experience in developing and mentoring of junior team members
• Expert understanding of security compliance and control frameworks such NIST SP800-53 and ISO270002, IEC62443.
• Expert understanding of security maturity and frameworks such as NIST CSF and its Implementation Tiers, C2M2 and NCSC CAF
• Experience measuring compliancy of an organisation or digital system

What you’ll get in return:

• £70k - £90k per annum (Negotiable)
• Enhanced Holiday Entitlement
• Company Funded Pension, Life Assurance and Income Protection
• Flexible Working Options and Work Life Balance
• Diversity and Inclusion Committee
• Wide range of company funded flexible benefits
• Learning and Development opportunities â€" thousands of free online courses
• As a Gold Investor In People, my client is committed to support employees in their professional development
• And many more!

Applicants MUST be UK residents and MUST have the right to work in UK. Due to the nature of this role, sponsorship cannot be offered.
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