Security Consultant - Guildford, United Kingdom - BAE Systems

BAE Systems

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Guildford, United Kingdom

2 weeks ago

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Location(s): UK, Europe & Africa :

UK :

Guildford || UK, Europe & Africa :

UK :
London
BAE Systems Digital Intelligence is home to 4,500 digital, cyber and intelligence experts.

We work collaboratively across 10 countries to collect, connect and understand complex data, so that governments, nation states, armed forces and commercial businesses can unlock digital advantage in the most demanding environments.

Security Consultant - hybrid, mainly remote working, but with regular travel to Bristol and other sites

About the role

We are looking to recruit a Principal Security Consultant to join our growing, vibrant community of security professionals based on client sites across the UK, including London, Leeds, and Bristol.

Working predominantly in the UK Defence Sector, with further opportunities across transport, energy, telecommunications, health, legal, and central Government sections, you will be at the core of our customers' mission to defend themselves from cyber-attacks by helping them to clearly understand their exposure and put in place pragmatic and cost effective controls.

Our role will present a variety of exciting challenges and environments to work in. We pride ourselves in our people being smart and adaptable.

We make a difference by understanding our customers' business, embracing challenges, building trust and providing cyber security expertise across the spectrum of strategic advisory through to secure solution design.

You will either work individually or leading a small team, under light touch direction from your clients and your line management.

You will have responsibility for satisfying the objectives for an assignment.

Positioned within a thriving Digital Defence Services Business Unit and part of a wider vibrant Security Consulting Community from across other Sectors, you will be supported in the role and have opportunity learn and develop, with clear pathways defined for your career progression in the organisation.

At BAE Systems Digital Intelligence, we believe that digital technology is the key to unlocking our customers' advantage. By advancing digital technologies, we open doors to worlds of opportunities, together.

Within the Digital Defence Services, we are a critical partner to the UK Ministry of Defence in their adoption of secure digital solutions that enable multi-domain integration and data exploitation, which provides the advantage to those who serve and protect us.

Key responsibilities

Working with clients remotely and onsite, you will support and grow to lead engagements that deliver cyber risk assessments, improve security control maturity, define secure solutions and ensure compliance.

Predominantly these engagements will be in the UK Defence Sector across all domains, with further opportunities across transport, energy, telecommunications, health, legal, and central Government sections.

Your responsibilities will include:

Delivery of critical singleton roles or leading small to medium cyber security workstreams or engagements (e.g. teams of 215 people).
Understanding business and information risk context of our customers and judging risk at a technical and business process level.
Reviewing effectiveness of security controls and proposing proportionate security improvements and mitigations.
Analysing and researching security technologies to support the development of innovative solutions.
Reporting contractual risks, issue and opportunities to Delivery Management
Working and collaborating with account teams to identify new opportunities for work and support the production of quality proposals.

Skills and experience required

A passion for, and understanding of, cyber security trends and threats, underpinned by a solid understanding of networking (TCP/IP) and DNS.
Effective business acumen and an understanding of the cyber security challenges faced by organisations
Can evaluate cyber security risk at the technical, system process and/or organisational level measuring the associated business impact using a structured approach or methodology
Can document and articulate how to manage cyber security risk utilising a structured approach based on industry frameworks, pitching technical detail into key business stakeholders.
Experience in a consulting environment
Working effectively in large teams and leading small teams.
Excellent interpersonal skills as well as both written and verbal communication and presentation skills.
Ability to prioritise workload, work well under pressure and concurrently manage both customer and BAE Systems expectations
Either currently holding, or previously held, Government Security Clearance.

The following are desirable but not essential:

Familiarity and experience with US Government and NATO cyber security processes.
Cyber security policy development and/or technical security standards, patterns and guidance artefact generation to support the securing Enterprise IT and/or Oper