Lead Cyber Security Consultant

Description:

Lead Cyber Security Consultant

Contract

Reading/Hybrid

Overview of the role:

The role of Cyber Security Consultant sits within the Cyber Security team, which is responsible for providing subject matter expertise and guidance to business units across Network and Enterprise domains to enable the business to deliver its outcomes in a secure manner, building customer trust in a reliable network which matches the best, whilst ensuring compliance to regulatory requirements, company policy and standards.

What will you be doing?

Actively represent the security organisation within business project initiatives, providing technical security leadership to ensure that security requirements and outcomes are defined and considered throughout the lifecycle of projects from conception to operation.
Collaborate closely with a broad range of stakeholders across the business and be able to articulate the security vision, principles and governance/assurance standards for security consultants and solution architects within the organisation and our partners.
Provide security requirements and design input across several projects or technologies across Network and Enterprise business domains at any one time.
Provide effective governance and assurance of security deliverables by our partners and internal teams, where necessary also supporting security consultants and solution architects through review and approvals.
Maintain an in-depth knowledge of industry standards and have an evolving level of technical expertise relevant to the role.
Create, review, and approve requirements capture, architecture, design, delivery and test documentation and other artefacts used in the design and delivery lifecycle by company and its partners, ensuring that effective governance and technical assurance can be performed. Maintain and improve the use of artefact templates.
Ensure that there is effective capacity management and planning in place for the security services and solutions assigned to you and ensure that the solution is incorporated into the 18-month technical and budget roadmap for capacity expansion and service improvement.
Support the Programme and Project Manager in project planning, risk and issue management and the budgeting process.

What are we looking for?

Experience with information security management frameworks (NIST, PCI, GDPR, ISO, OWASP, ITIL, ISF SoGP, COBIT) is essential.
Experience with Front end cyber attack, SIEM and SOC compliance.
The role will involve supporting project managers in risk and issue management
Creation, review, and approval of documentation such as requirements, architecture, design, and test artefacts.
Experience in documenting and implementing processes, procedures, and architecture/design/decision templates is vital.
Expertise and experience in technical domains i.e. hybrid security, infrastructure and data centre security, network security, application security, identity and access management, and vulnerability management are important.
Stakeholder Management experience

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