Senior Information Security Consultant

Role: Senior Cyber Security and Information Assurance Consultant
Location: Gloucestershire
Working Preference: Hybrid - Remote (Client Sites 1-2 days a week)
Salary and Package: £70,000 per year plus client package (inc. company pension, 25 days holiday, life assurance, learning and development support)
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Please note that to apply for this role, you must hold a British Passport and have lived in the UK for a continuous period of 5 years or more. Unfortunately, the client cannot provide sponsorship for this opportunity.
Overview of the client:
InfoSec People are delighted to be working with our client, a leading security consultancy based in the South West, who have a Senior Cyber Security and Information Assurance Consultant.
Key Requirements:
• Provide security advice and guidance for clients in ‘business as usual’, technical refresh and new project environments.
• Identify and establish good security governance to meet client business requirements.
• Identify client Cyber Security and Information Assurance (CS&IA) risks within client operational environments and determine appropriate remediation based on business risk appetite that protects information assets from loss, misuse, leakage or corruption.
• Perform compliance activity on client systems and business processes to assess the levels of security and information assurance controls and identify gaps to address.
• Create or review client security and information assurance policies and procedures to meet corporate and regulatory requirements.
• Build successful working relationships with team members, key customers and stakeholders that improves the value of the security services being performed.
• Work in partnership with clients to implement cyber and information security controls in pragmatic ways that deliver investment value and support business operations.
• Mentor others within the team in a technical and consultancy capacity.
• Proactively assist the Head of Cyber Security and Information Assurance Services
• Maintain and update the accreditation documentation sets for The Client's internal information systems used to handle.
Key Experience and Skills:
• Experience of delivering technical Cyber Security and Information Assurance consultancy within a Defence environment, or other UK Government sectors;
• Ability to provide technical Cyber and Information Security assurance risk management and solutions within complex scenarios.
• Ability to conduct, deliver and maintain technical security risk assessments using established or novel approaches.
• Ability to work on multiple projects and tasks concurrently, successfully balancing business and client priorities.
• Ability to work effectively both individually and as a senior team member in a multi-disciplined organisation.
• Ability to coordinate and manage multi-disciplined Cyber and Information Security resources including technical specialists, while providing coherent reporting to non-technical business stakeholders.
• Ability to provide threat detection and monitoring technologies and services.
• Ability to produce Cyber and Information Security incident response plans and coordinating desktop incident response exercises.
• Broad knowledge and application of common Cyber and Information Security bodies, standards, frameworks, guidelines and legislation (e.g. ISO27001, NIST, JSP and HMG Government)
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