Cyber Security Senior Consultant - Assurance

London, England, United Kingdom - Remote

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Methods

Delivering end-to-end business & technical solutions that are people-centred, safe, & designed for the future

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Job Title Cyber Security Senior Consultant - Assurance

Reporting to Cyber & Technical Advisory

Salary £60,000-£80,000

Job Type Permanent, full time

Location Home based (This role will require regular UK travel and at times need you to stay away from home)

Since our establishment in 1990, Methods has partnered with a range of central government departments and agencies to transform the way the public sector operates in the UK.

Our mission is to improve and safeguard public-facing services. We apply digital thinking to ensure the future of our public services is centred around our citizens.

Our human touch sets us apart from other consultancies, system integrators and software houses - we have a customer-centric value system whereby we focus on delivering what is right for our clients.

We passionately support our clients in the success of their projects while working collaboratively to share skill sets and solve problems. At Methods we have fun while working hard; we are not afraid of making mistakes and learning from them.

Methods are experts in delivering secure, resilient cyber and information services – keeping systems and data safe.

We help reduce risk and vulnerabilities from cyber-attacks by developing a security road-map tailored to your unique needs.

We help organisations improve processes such as threat management by building an identity management programme, and establishing prevention, detection and response capabilities to cyber-attacks.

Requirements


  • Ability to research, articulate, pitch complex and innovative security advice, at both business and technical levels, for new or existing problems, with the objective to justify and communicate decisions directly to key customer stakeholders including senior management.
  • Able to understand and comprehend the impact of decisions, balancing requirements and deciding between approaches.
  • Develop vision, principles and strategy for security for multiple projects or technologies; working in a particular field as subject matter expert, to support a team in delivering engagements at scale, which may require subtle security needs and requirements, contributing to development of information security policy, standards, procedures and guidelines.
  • Effective business acumen and an understanding of the cyber security challenges faced by client, with the objective to develop our cyber assurance practice, by supporting business development and practice management.
  • Experience of identifying and applying security risk and familiarity with common control frameworks, with the ability to investigating major breaches of security and recommending appropriate control improvements.
  • Maintaining awareness of key business and industry trends and understanding how they impact responses to cyber risk, with the contribution of the development of our team through training and coaching.
  • Managing, delivering, leading cyber security and cyber risk assignments, with the management of portfolio of clients, across a variety of sectors and locations, including producing documentation, presentation, reports, recommendations and quality assuring, for the work produced by team members and being the point of escalation for lower grade roles.
  • Providing our clients with trusted advice, rooted in a pragmatic and agnostic understanding of their business situation and objectives, to help them navigate complex, risk-driven cyber decisions.
  • Working as a subject matter expert in your particular field, owning and delivering initiatives to embed quality through learning and other activity, working seamlessly and collaboratively with colleagues and clients from other service lines, supporting a team or colleagues to deliver engagements at scale, with the appropriate reach and influence across the teams and communities.
  • Managing diverse teams within an inclusive team culture where people are recognised and encouraged for their contribution.
  • Essential Skills and Experience:
  • SC clearance, previously held it, or able and willing to pass the process.
  • >5 years of Information Security Experience.
  • Technical/Consultant experience and background in Cyber Security.
  • Passionate about quality and efficiency.
  • Working as an effective member of a multi-disciplinary team.
  • Previous transferable experience in managing teams.
  • Industry Recognised Security Certification or substantial industry experience.
  • Excellent stakeholder management, presentation and communication skills.
  • Assurance of Physical, Cloud, Web, Mobile and Embedded & IoT systems.
  • A sound working knowledge of common commercial and open-source assessment tools and techniques.
  • Ability to simplify technical results of assurance to a non-technical audience.
  • Ability to train colleagues and clients.
  • Ability to think creatively and strategically to assure projects.
  • The ability to think laterally and 'outside the box'.
  • Teamwork skills, to support colleagues and share experience.
  • Desirable Skills & Experience:
  • Good knowledge of secure network Assurance and technical design.
  • Good knowledge in common scripting and programming languages.
  • Experience in Cloud Assurance, either AWS and/or Azure.
  • Experience in Serverless and Containerisation.
  • Experience in CI/CD and DevOps.
  • Experience in API and modern Web Platforms.
  • Besides the technical side, we want someone with an entrepreneurial flair and architectural brain that can design and automate our service.
  • Build relationships with organizations to promote and mature assurance.
  • You will bring ideas of how to drive the business forward, reduce costs and be skilled in the commercial aspects of security assurance.
  • Our consultancy has multiple product owners, where you will own and build the assurance function with guidance from our Cyber Security Principal and Director.
  • As part of this you have the ability to earn commission and rewards as you expand that product line. You can, however, work on other products and build your career.


Am I the right fit? We're looking for:

  • Resilience
  • Strong collaboration and team working
  • Good Communication skills
  • Genuine passion/commitment to improving public services
  • A determined and tenacious approach to work
  • A creative approach to problem solving
  • Good listening and comprehension
  • Great stakeholder management
  • Autonomy to develop and grow your skills and experience
  • Be part of exciting project work that is making a difference in society
  • Strong, inspiring, and thought-provoking leadership
  • A supportive and collaborative environment

Methods is passionate about its people; we want our colleagues to develop the things they are good at and enjoy.

This role will require you to have or be willing to go through Security Clearance. As part of the onboarding process candidates will be asked to complete a Baseline Personnel Security Standard; details of the evidence required to apply may be found on the government website Gov.UK. If you are unable to meet this and any associated criteria, then your employment may be delayed, or rejected . Details of this will be discussed with you at interview

Benefits

Methods is passionate about its people; we want our colleagues to develop the things they are good at and enjoy.

By joining us you can expect

  • Autonomy to develop and grow your skills and experience
  • Be part of exciting project work that is making a difference in society
  • Strong, inspiring and thought-provoking leadership
  • A supportive and collaborative environment

As well as this, we offer:

Development access to LinkedIn Learning, a management development programme and training

Wellness 24/7 Confidential employee assistance programme

Social - office parties, pizza Friday and commitment to charitable causes

Time off 25 days a year

Pension Salary Exchange Scheme with 4% employer contribution and 5% employee contribution

Discretionary Company Bonus based on company and individual performance

Life Assurance of 4 times base salary

Private Medical Insurance which is non-contributory (spouse and dependants included)

Worldwide Travel Insurance which is non-contributory (spouse and dependants included)

Benefits Platform offering various retail and leisure discounts



Tags: APIs AWS Azure CI/CD Clearance Cloud DevOps Scripting Security Clearance Strategy Vulnerabilities

Perks/benefits: Career development Health care Salary bonus Wellness

Regions: Remote/Anywhere Europe
Country: United Kingdom
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Category: Consulting Jobs

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