Principal Consultant Security Architecture

This is a rare opportunity to work for one of the top ten defence companies globally.
This organisation has Investments and Products across Transport, Energy, Aerospace, Space and Manufacturing. The Cyber division you will be joining is innovator helping customers secure and deliver digital transformation for clients around the world.
This role will specifically be within Cyber consulting division who work across a diverse range of sectors including not only Defence but Telecommunications, Energy and Finance. Their practice is certified by the UK NCSC in the provision of advice and guidance across enterprise and operational technology across all NCSC security domains such as Governance and Risk managed, Security architecture and Compliance.

Your new role

As a consultant you will actively listen and empathise to build intimacy while helping to define potential solutions to problems presented with limited information based on experience and technical knowledge.
As a consultant you will need to Identify, measure, and analyse the risks attracted by a given digital system and its information assets through the completion of risk assessments, defining and implementing the enabling governance structures that support this process.
You will assist in defining appropriate and proportionate security solutions right the way across people, process and technology aligned to the identified risk picture through security architecture visions, patterns and designs while also giving customers confidence that security is where it needs to be across such a heavily regulated Industry.
The successful candidate will also be able be required to define, implement and perform assessments of customers environments against the set of criteria of people, process and technology.
Finally, the organisation's offerings are based on a core set of products, you will build a viable offering as part of the winning process while helping in the technical development of products within customer sectors.

What you'll need to succeed

• MUST be able to go through UK SC Clearance and other more in-depth security clearances
• Understanding of TCP/IP based networking concepts across the OSI model layer as well as the common protocols in use and their risks.
• Recognised certifications in Cyber Security such as CISM, CISSP, CRISC, CASP AND CEH.
• Experience of directly managing project delivery and associated metrics not limited to time, cost and quality.
• Experience of and ability to manage multiple stakeholders and their needs with empathy, finding an appropriate balance of listening and speaking.
• An ambitious and creative drive to help safeguard UK national infrastructure and become a recognised cyber expert.
• Extensive experience in the development and mentoring of junior team members.
• Extensive ability in deriving security requirements from functional objectives with limited knowledge of the underlying solution and customer/team direction.
• Extensive ability in inspiring and leading in the breaking down, at pace of complex functional solutions into simpler constituent parts.
• Expert ability in communicating why a complex functional system requires a given security wrapper in a way best suited to a given stakeholder.
• Extensive experience and technical depth in either network, application or system security controls in their design and the risks they mitigate.

What you'll get in return

• £70k - £90k salary depending on experience
• 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.
If you know anyone who would be perfect for this role, please get in touch! Hays pay up to £500 in high street shopping vouchers for successful referrals.
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