Senior Cyber Security Compliance Consultant

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 is a hybrid position with 1-2 days in the office based in Bristol and 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)
• Be in commutable distance to Bristol or willing to relocate
• Cyber Security degree and/or at least one professional certification, such as CompTia Sec+, CISMP or CCNA
• Certification by a well-known standards body in the provision of audits (or working towards being certified)
• Understanding of TCP/IP based networking concepts across the OSI model layer, common protocols in use and their risks
• Knowledge and experience of compliance, and control frameworks such as NIST SP800-53, ISO 27002 and IEC62443
• Experience measuring compliancy of an organisation or digital system against a given set of security criteria
• Experience in the development and mentoring of junior team members is desirable

What you'll get in return

• £50k - £70k 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.
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