Cyber Security Specialist - Reading, United Kingdom - BJSS

BJSS

Verified Company

Reading, United Kingdom

2 weeks ago

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Tom O´Connor

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Description

About Us
We're an award-winning innovative tech consultancy - a team of creative problem solvers.

Since 1993 we've been finding better, more sustainable ways to solve complex technology problems for some of the world's leading organisations and delivered solutionsthat millions of people use every day.

In the last 30 years we won several awards, including a prestigious Queen's Award for Enterprise in the Innovation category for our Enterprise Agile delivery approach.

Operating from 26 locations across the world, we bring together teams of creative experts with diverse backgrounds and experiences, who enjoy working and learning in our collaborative and open culture and are committed to world-class delivery.

We want to continue to grow our team with people just like you

About the Role

We're looking to hire a hands-on Cyber Security Specialist from an Engineering and/or Architecture background, with skills in technical leadership and wide knowledge of cloud technologies, standards and governance practices.

You're a security expert who sets direction for others, comfortable leading teams of other highly experienced technologists and keenly aware of changes to the landscape.

You have the ability to maintain a holistic big-picture view of cyber objectives andinterdependencies, are hands-on, and understand cyber security compliance practices and acknowledge the need to maintain a practical and pragmatic approach.

You will take part in thought leadership activities as well as being a hands-on practitioner engaging with client advisory and delivery work.

You will have a point of view on DevSecOps and what this means and be able to articulate this to clients.

You will devise ways to do things better, drive forward change, learn and explore new technologies. You will be interested in sharing our knowledge with others, internal and external.

You'll work in a fast moving, agile environment, within multi-disciplinary teams, delivering advanced technology solution to a range of clients across the globe.

You will enjoy mentoring your peers to deliver quality outcomes and successfully embed securityby design with proportionate appropriate cyber controls aligned to risk.

You will be a person our customers trust and will work with client senior stakeholder management (negotiation and influencing) across multinational organisations, including third party suppliers and delivery partners to ensure all aspects of cyber securityare embedded in transformation programmes we undertake.

You'll get to work with some of the brightest and best in the industry on some of the most exciting digital programmes around.

Not only will this experience allow you to develop your skills, but you'll also learn new techniques and refine your interests.

You will actively engage other disciplines to improve the understanding and effectiveness of how we work together to build better security solutions.

BJSS emphasises collaboration across disciplines and champions a culture where everyone works together,owning and resolving challenges as a team.

Skills and capabilities required include:

Strong effective leadership, communication, influencing at all levels (written and verbal) and successfully manage expectations
Ability to undertake threat and risk assessments across varied technology stacks, identifying suitable mitigating controls
Demonstrates clear leadership and an ability to communicate, influence and persuade across the organisation at senior levels, leading by example and aligning stakeholder groups around a common vision
Prioritisation across multiple products, based on overall product team structure and delivery strategy
Strong ability to work under pressure in a changing environment

Experience Required for the role

Broad technical knowledge of cyber security controls demonstrated by attainment of appropriate qualifications e.g. CISSP, ISO27001 Lead Implementor or relevant SANS GIAC or equivalent or with aspirations to work towards these certifications
Knowledge of the NIST framework, PCI DSS, GDPR and NIS as well as NCSC cyber guidance
DevSecOps experience and experience of platform engineering
Experience working in an agile delivery environment would be highly advantageous
Specific cyber knowledge and demonstrable experience in at least one of the following areas: Cloud security, network security, digital security (multiplatform), infrastructure security, security by design, security architecture
Understand the whole lifecycle including analysis, enterprise development, build & deployment, and support
Thorough understanding of AWS or Azure cloud and security products
Thorough understanding of adversarial tactics, techniques, and procedures
Strong attention to detail with an analytical mindset and the ability to spot and investigate anomalous behaviour

About You

To be qualified for this role, you should hold a degree in a relevant field, like Cyber Security, Computer Science, IT or Software Engineering or the equivalent level of experience.

An understanding of Microsoft, AWS or GCP technologies.

If you're naturallyinquisitive, a helper, enjoy assisting people with software or infrastructure issues and can explain technical details simply, we'd like to meet you.

Ultimately, you will be a person our customer's trust. They will rely on you to provide timely and accurate solutions to their technical problems.