Cyber Security Consultant

Cyber Security Consultant - Inside IR35

Contract Term: 6 months with potential for extension

Contracting Authority: Ministry of Justice

Location: Hybrid – 2 days per week in the office, multiple UK locations available.   

The Ministry of Justice (MoJ) priorities include improving public safety and reducing reoffending by reforming prisons, probation and youth justice, and building a justice system which makes access to justice swifter and more certain for all citizens whatever their background. Project professionals in the MoJ help to improve the government’s ability to protect the public and reduce reoffending, and to provide a more effective, transparent and responsive criminal justice system for victims and the public.

As a Cyber Security Consultant your main responsibilities would be: 

• Working on MoJ's most complex and riskiest services providing detailed cyber security advice and guidance to the teams. Use knowledge from Cyber Risk Advisors, to identify relevant threats to systems. Proposing and developing security mitigations to address identified threats. Working with suppliers and delivery teams to ensure mitigations are implemented at an appropriate point in the delivery lifecycle. Advising on risks that emerge as a result of incomplete or ineffective delivery. Assessing the alignment of cyber security for products and projects with business and statutory legislation, and with government requirements. Assisting teams in the preparation of security governance materials, such as Data Protection Impact Assessments, and supporting governance processes such as Service Assessments from a security perspective. Ensuring that new and updated platforms, products and transactions are built and operated securely. Ensuring that project teams you are supporting are well aware of their responsibilities for Cyber Security perspectives and practices, through vehicles such as coaching, briefings at team meetings, and training events.

Essential Skills:

• Experience of Cloud services and technologies, assuring and working with product teams as they deploy and transition digital solutions into public cloud environments.
• Experience of carrying out reviews of systems and application architectures.
• The ability to carry out risk assessments and risk management following a PACE perspective, in line with HMG policy and guidance.
• Experience of working with agile teams.
• Knowledge of security monitoring, prevention and control systems including but not limited to firewalls, IDS/IPS, web proxies, antivirus and log correlation solutions.

If this role sounds like something that you would be interested in, please click the link to apply or email daniel.mcbride@publicsectorresourcing.co.uk.

"In applying for this role you acknowledge the following; this role falls in scope of the Off Payroll Working in the Public Sector legislation. Any rates of payment quoted will reflect the gross rate per day for the assignment, and will be subject to appropriate taxes and statutory costs. As such the payment to the intermediary and your income resulting from this contract will be different."

Please be aware that this role can only be worked within the UK and not Overseas.